Peter Jacob Maltz

Peter Jacob Maltz is an artist, educator, and writer whose work spans drawing, relief sculpture, artist books, printmaking, and video. He hold and MFA from the Royal College of Art in London.

For more than twenty years, Maltz has explored the relationship between landscape, memory, narrative, and the act of walking. His practice draws on observation, travel, and the accumulation of visual experiences, transforming them into layered works that move between image, object, and story. Through drawing, casting, printing, and book-making, he investigates how places become carriers of meaning and how visual language can connect personal experience with broader cultural narratives.

Maltz has exhibited extensively and is the recipient of the Minister of Culture Prize and the Alima Rita Prize for Printmaking. His work is included in major public and private collections, including the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

Alongside his studio practice, he has taught and led visual arts programs for many years, while continuing to develop a body of work that examines perception, time, and the ways in which we navigate the world through images.

Royal College of Art, London, UK
Master of Arts (MA), Sculpture

Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Fine Arts, Cum Laude

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 — Why Is the Sky Blue?, Petah Tikva Museum, Petah Tikva

2018 — Pilgrimage to the Center of the Earth, King Solomon Hotel, Jerusalem

2017 — Open a Gate, Artists House, Jerusalem (Meiron Sima Prize)

2015 — A Day Passes and Another Day Comes, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

2015 — Nature Quest, Alfred Gallery, Tel Aviv

2013 — Undercurrent, Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv

2011 — Roots, Artists House, Jerusalem

2009 — My Bookshelf, International Writers Festival, Jerusalem

2007 — I Think I Am, 3 Meter Gallery, Tel Aviv

2006 — Moral, Tal Esther Gallery

2004 — Anima, Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS

2026 — Open Lesson: Samson the Hero, Tivon Art Gallery, Tivon

2023 — To Sing from a Broken Branch, Zuzu Gallery

2019 — Not in the Sky, Jerusalem

2017 — Open Invitation (Round Trip), Kav 16 Gallery, Tel Aviv

2016 — Rootless, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

2014 — The Wishing Well, Public Art Project, Augsburg, Germany

2014 — Journey, Sapir College, Sderot

2012 — Explorer, Contemporary Gallery, Tel Aviv

2010 — Rupture and Repair, Artists House, Jerusalem

2009 — Wild Exaggeration, Haifa Museum of Art

2006 — Young Gods, Clapham Gallery, London, UK