Ori Reisman

Born and raised in Tel Yosef, Israel, Ori Reisman was greatly influenced by the environment and culture that surrounded him in his youth. Reisman was one of the founders of the kibbutz Beit ha-Arava as well as kibbutz Kabri, the two of which account for the painter’s primary subject matter. Although he spent much of his life in Israel, Reisman traveled to Paris in the early 1950s and again in the 1970s, where he studied at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts. It was only toward the end of his life that Reisman began to receive critical attention and acclaim; he spent most of his career at the margins of the Israeli art world.