Israel Fraiman

I was born in 1967 in Viña del Mar, Chile, the "garden city" by the sea. I studied at the School of Architecture and Design of the UCV, where I graduated at the top of my class, and I was fortunate to spend ten years alongside the painter Francisco Méndez Labbe, my mentor. For two decades I taught art, architecture and design as a university professor.

Working with Méndez, I helped create the Open-Air Museum of Valparaíso, where I later served as director and curator of its murals. In 1997 the late Shimon Peres inaugurated my eight-storey mural honoring Yitzhak Rabin. From 2000 to 2002 I served as Regional Minister of Culture (Seremi) for Chile's Central Zone, overseeing 36 municipalities.

My work is held in private collections, including those of former Chilean presidents Ricardo Lagos, Michelle Bachelet and the late Sebastián Piñera, and of the late poet Nicanor Parra.

In 2021 I received an A' Design Award in Milan, Italy, for OSMoMA (Open Sky Museum of Modern Art), my project in Tel Aviv that transforms buildings through painting.

My painting lives between two worlds. A divided horizon marks the boundary between them; for me, the Fibonacci golden ratio and the studies of Da Vinci are the precise measure of the soul, a sacred...

Architecture, Design Faculty & Art Institute PUCV
Chile

ARI Institute
Israel

I create works in diverse fields, painting, design, sculpture, video and experimental film, that have traveled to:

Valparaíso, CHILE
Santiago, CHILE
New York City, USA
Paris, FRANCE
Madrid, SPAIN
Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA
Hong Kong, CHINA
Tel Aviv, ISRAEL
Jerusalem, ISRAEL

RECOGNITION
A' Design Award, Arts, Crafts & Ready-Made Design, for OSMoMA, Milan, Italy, 2021
World Design Ratings, Designer Title, 2021
Recognized by the State of Israel as an Outstanding and Distinguished Artist, 2015
Rabin Memorial Mural, eight storeys, inaugurated by Shimon Peres, Valparaíso, 1997
Director and Curator, Open Sky Museum of Valparaíso, 1996–2000
Regional Minister of Culture (Seremi), Central Zone of Chile, 2000–2002
Works in the private collections of Chilean presidents Ricardo Lagos, Michelle Bachelet and Sebastián Piñera, and poet Nicanor Parra