Debbie Kampel

Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, living in Israel since 1974. I have always been a landscape painter. A few years ago I started noticing the trucks: the powerful Mack trucks building the new neighborhood of Har Homa and the highly decorated trucks that plied the roads of Judea. Trucks that reflected the strength of the landscape and trucks that imposed a harmony of color and shape upon it. While the trucks seem to upstage and dominate the landscape in fact the landscape contains and displays them. Painting the trucks for me represents the daily existence between Jews and Arabs expressed through an aesthetic reality - the complexities and contradictions that are a part of my life here.

Majored in Fine Art, History of Art and English at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg receiving a B.A. Completed a M.A Cum Laude at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Studied at Bezalel School of Art under painters Pinhas Cohen-Gan and Michael Kovner; lithography with Dedi Ben-Shaul. A member of the Israel Artists Association. One-Man Shows:

One-man Shows 2024 Move It! Geula Gallery, J’lem // 2023 I'ronya, Reshut HaRabim Gallery// Night in the City, Madeline Greenwald Art Gallery //2019 Rosenbach Contemporary //2014 HaTaArucha-Chamshushalayim Jerusalem // 2012 Al HaGiva Gallery, Meitar // 2011 Ashkelon City Gallery // 2010 Exhibition for International Women’s Film Festival, Rehovot // 2005 New Gallery, Teddy Stadium, Jerusalem// 2002 Yeshiva University Museum, New York // Ha-Acheret Gallery, Tel-Aviv // 1999 ICC Jerusalem Convention Center, Jerusalem // 1998 Kaye College, Beersheva // 1996 ‘Strong Hills’, Sara Kishon Gallery, Tel-Aviv // 1993 Paintings, Jerusalem Center for the Performing Arts, Jerusalem // 1990 Views of Judean Hills, Sara Kishon Gallery, Tel-Aviv // 1987 Hills of Jerusalem, Nora Gallery, Jerusalem

Selected Group Shows 2025 Dafen Biennale, Shenzen // 2024 No Words, the Biennale of Jerusalem Gallery// 2023 Fractions, Geula Gallery// 2022 9th Beijing Biennale //2021Jerusalem Biennale //Jerusalem Nights //2020 Israeli Art from A-Z. Y.U.Museum, New York // 2nd Dafen Biennale 2018 // Dafen Biennale, Dafen Museum// Landscape, Homeland, ArtShelterGallery //2017 Jerusalem of Many Face(t)s, The Knesset // Water,Heart,Face ,The Jerusalem Biennale // 2...