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Joshua Borkovsky
1990
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Joshua Borkovsky is an Israeli artist whose paintings and photographs often feature phantasmagoric imagery. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions in galleries in Israel and New York, and he has participated in group shows, including the Paris (1982),Venice (1986), and São Paolo Biennales (1991). Borkovsky lives in Jerusalem and is a professor at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and in the art department at the Hebrew University.
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