Nirit Keren

I was born in 1963 in Israel and grew up for the first years of my life in a village (Kibbutz). Being part of an agricultural community made a long lasting impact on my creative life. I still leave in Israel today.
My education as a textile designer provided me with passion for texture and form.
My greatest inspiration is nature with all its wisdom. Patterns and movement that I see in natural structures triggers my creation. I love hiking the desert collecting stones, minerals & images to take home and inspire my work.
I chose natural stone, marble & glass as my vehicle of expression. Even before I started on with mosaic I felt a spiritual attraction to stone with its geological history it curates within. May the reason be conscious or unconscious, I found myself engaged in breaking the materials I find into smaller pieces, putting one broken piece next to another in order to create a new whole.

B. Des of Textile Design at "Shenkar" College, Israel
1991, with distinction.

Self-taught in mosaic, with training courses in Italy, at Scoula Mosaicisti del Friuli.

2008 – Group exhibition "Bits & Pieces" in "Galerina" Gallery, Israel.
2009 – Group exhibition "The Scanning Eye" at The Gallery, Tel-Aviv.
2009 –"Artishaw" a mixed media group event, Tel-Aviv.
2010 – "Personal Readings of Antique Mosaics" Israeli & Palestinian group
exhibition at the BYU University, Jerusalem.
2011 – "Personal Readings of Antique Mosaic" Rishon Lezion, Israel.
2011 – Group exhibition at Park Gallery, Ra'anana, Israel.
2011 – Group exhibition at the first Israeli Biennale, Netanya.
2013 – Group exhibition Opre del Mundo at Ravenna Mosaico 3rd edition,
Ravenna, Italy.
2014 – Group exhibition "Secret Art", Tel Aviv
2015¬ – Group exhibition Opre del Mundo, "Ravenna Mosaico" 4th edition,
Ravenna, Italy.