Background
Adi Nes was born in Kiryat Gat, the son of Mizrahi Jewish immigrants from Iran.
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Adi Nes
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1989-1992 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, photography.
Career
His exhibits have been shown from Tel Aviv to San Diego. He is probably most notable for the series entitled Soldiers which was criticized for its homoeroticism and usage of dark-skinned Israeli models who are often subject to discrimination for looking "Arab." In 2003 he did a feature for Vogue Hommes. Nes has given solo exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Legion of Honor in San Francisco, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, and the Melkweg in Amsterdam, among others
His work has also shown in group exhibitions at the Hotel de Sully in Paris and the Jewish Museum in New York, among many others
He has been reviewed in The New York Times, the Financial Times, and others In 2005 Nes was chosen as an outstanding artist of the prestigious Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation.
Nes" most famous piece recalls Leonardo da Vinci"s The Last Supper, * replacing the characters with young male Israeli soldiers. A print sold at auction in Sotheby"s for $102,000 in 2005, and another for $264,000 in 2007.
The work appeared on the front page of the New York Times in May, 2008.
Nes" early work has been characterized as subverting the stereotype of the masculine Israeli man by using homoeroticism and sleeping, vulnerable figures. He regularly uses dark-skinned Israeli models. The models" poses often evoke the Baroque period.
Nes has said that the inspiration for his photography is partially autobiographical: Nes lives and works in Tel Aviv.
His work is currently sold through Jack Shainman in New York City. In January 2007, he premiered a new series echoing Biblical stories.
1989-1992 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, photography.
Achievements
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1993 Ministry of Council for Prize for Completion of Work, Ministry of Culture and 1993 Sandra Jacobs Scholarship for Documentary in London 1999 The Minister of, Culture and Sport Prize, The Ministry of, Culture and Sport 2000 Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation, The Israeli Art Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv 2003 The Constantiner Photographer Award for an Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv 2005 The Fund for Excellence in Fine Arts.
