Zohar Cohen

Zohar Cohen is an Israeli painter living and working in Haifa. His work moves between landscape and abstraction, exploring relationships between memory, material, color, and place. The paintings begin through movement toward real geographical locations — deserts, forests, cities, and emotionally charged environments — yet gradually detach from their original source in the studio, transforming into dense, layered painterly fields.

His works are characterized by surfaces built from accumulated brushstrokes, layers of paint, erasures, and fragmentation, creating tension between structure and dissolution, light and depth, personal memory and collective landscape. Through an ongoing process of construction, covering, destruction, and renewal, painting becomes a space of presence, materiality, and transformation.

Cohen received his MFA from the University of Haifa, studied at the Kalisher School of Art, and holds a B.Ed. in Arts Education

2025 — MFA, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

2012 — B.Ed. in Arts Education, Oranim College of Education, Tivon, Israel

1996 — Kalisher – The Israel Pollak Tel Aviv School of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

Solo Exhibitions
2025 — Field–Line, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
2022 — Temenos, Nulobaz Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2017 — Zadik Gallery, Jaffa, Israel
2017 — The Other Gallery, Holon, Israel
2013 — Artists’ House, Jerusalem, Israel
2010 — Ehrlich Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2009 — Artists’ House, Tel Aviv, Israel
2009 — Ghetto Fighters’ House Gallery, Kibbutz Lohamei HaGeta’ot, Israel
2006 — Gallery 24, Tel Aviv, Israe