Selected Works

Iddo Markus was born in 1979, in Boston, USA. Today lives and works in Haifa, Israel

Markus is a multidisciplinary artist whose works consistently inviting us to explore the relationship between figuration and abstraction.
Between directness and enigma, between traditional and contemporary approaches towards painting and source material.

His multi-layered oil paintings installations, most of them are small-scale to miniatures size, echo the artist’s expressive interpretation of the moment, and the frenzied Mediterranean environment he lives in as a seismic factor in his intense work practice.
A notion that brought Markus in recent years to create a body of work that is composed of many small fragments that make up dense installations.
Markus’s works delve deeper beyond the mere representation of an object to question the visual language, These works create a dialogue between the canonical and the ephemeral, between art history, Photography and the endless flow of imagery that defines contemporary digital culture with autobiographical hints (Text by Dr. Shahar Marnin-Distelfeld).

Education
2011-2012 Bachelor of Fine Arts Haifa University
2005-2008 Bachelor of Fine Arts “Hamidrasha School of Arts” graduated with excellence, Beit Berl, Israel.
2003-2004 SVA-School of Visual Arts-New York, USA-Courses

Solo Exhibitions
2018 “Family Matter” Zemack Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2018 “The Others” Yair art gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2017    “Gossip” Rothchild fine art gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2016 “Glitch” Rothchild fine art gallery Tel-Aviv, Israel
2014 “Urtica” Yair art gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2012    “For want of a nail…” Threshold Gallery, New Delhi, India
2011 “Different hand” Kibbutz Lohamei-Hagetaot Gallery, Israel
2011 “Bite size” Yair Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2009 Drawings and Paintings 2007-2009, Raw Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 Summer Show, Zemack Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2017 Painting salon, The cube, Jerusalem, Israel
2016 The Return Of Paper – The 6th Biennale for Drawing, Jerusalem, Israel
2016     Decade, Yair Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2014 Summer Exhibition, Zemack gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2013 Metropolis, Woofer Ten & C&G Artpartment gallery, Hong Kong
2012 Dybbuk Feinberg projects Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2012 Magic hours Ashdod art museum, Israel
2012 Yonas al masari-dead or alive, BAAD gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2011 Formally Speaking, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
2011 the specialists Hanina gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2010 Haifa -Plovdiv, Plovdiv- Haifa Pygmalion House – Bulgaria
2010 Talking Heads, Yair Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2010 wall works, Janco-Dada Museum Ein Hod , Israel
2009 A little more PEKA Gallery, Technion Institute, Haifa, Israel
2009 A little The Wing Gallery, Haifa, Israel
2009 Heat Wave, Raw Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2008 New Purchases- ST-ART, Tiroche House, Tel Aviv, Israel
2008 Coming Soon, Contemporary Art Gallery, Tivon. Israel

Art Fairs
2018 FRESH-PAINT, Tel Aviv, Israel
2015 ART MIAMI, USA
2014 ART TORONTO, Canada
2014 SF ART FAIR San Francisco, USA
2013 FRESH-PAINT, Tel Aviv, Israel
2012 INDIA ART FAIR, New-Delhi, India

Collections
Yair Art Gallery
Zemack Gallery
Rothchild fine art gallery
St-Art collection
Z-A Art collection
Oded Shatil
Bank Leumi
Raw-Art Gallery
Private collections

Curatorial work
2016 The culture palace, Gate 3 Gallery, Haifa, Israel
2015 Concrete fantezy, Zemack gallery, Tel aviv, Israel
2014 The moon is a hole is the sky, Haagaf gallery, Haifa, Israel
2012 Paris square, Haifa-Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel
2011 Rite of spring, Raw Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2010 Sorrow, the Wing Gallery, Haifa Israel

Other
2009-2015 Co-founder of The Wing gallery , Haifa, Israel
2016-2018 Co-founder of Haneviim – Working Space, Independent Art School, Haifa , Israel