Hanoch Piven
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Hanoch Piven is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...
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Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
i mixed media
Mixed media
Mixed media, in visual art, refers to an artwork in the making of which more than one medium has been employed.There is an important distinction between "mixed-media" artworks and "multimedia art". Mixed media tends to refer to a work of visual art that combines various traditionally distinct...
artist best known for his celebrity caricatures.
History
Hanoch Piven was born in Uruguay and raised in Israel. He studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York, graduating in 1992. When he returned to Israel in 1995, he began to work for HaaretzHaaretz
Haaretz is Israel's oldest daily newspaper. It was founded in 1918 and is now published in both Hebrew and English in Berliner format. The English edition is published and sold together with the International Herald Tribune. Both Hebrew and English editions can be read on the Internet...
newspaper.
Artistic career
Piven's illustrated compositions are assembled from common objects and scraps of materials, including items which might be associated with the subject (for example, using bologna and liquor bottles to create Boris YeltsinBoris Yeltsin
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999.Originally a supporter of Mikhail Gorbachev, Yeltsin emerged under the perestroika reforms as one of Gorbachev's most powerful political opponents. On 29 May 1990 he was elected the chairman of...
for Haaretz
Haaretz
Haaretz is Israel's oldest daily newspaper. It was founded in 1918 and is now published in both Hebrew and English in Berliner format. The English edition is published and sold together with the International Herald Tribune. Both Hebrew and English editions can be read on the Internet...
in 2000 or brains, magnifying glasses, and electrical wire to create Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA is an English theoretical physicist and cosmologist, whose scientific books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity...
for Die Weltwoche in 2006).
His caricatures appear in Time
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, Newsweek
Newsweek
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, Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
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, The Atlantic Monthly
The Atlantic Monthly
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, The Times
The Times
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, and Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly
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, among other publications.
In 2003, Piven began conducting international workshops in such cities as Barcelona
Barcelona
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, Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
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, Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
and others. The workshops follow the principles of Piven's own collage technique and encourage young people to experiment with common day-today objects and pieces of the world around them to create their own works of art.
Awards
- Society of Illustrators Gold Medal (1995)
- Society of Publication Designers Silver Medal
- Art Directors Club Merit Award for Cover Illustration (1996)
- Folio Eddie & Ozzie awards Gold, Best Use of Illustration (2007)
- Time Magazine, One of Ten in Best Children's Books Of 2004 (for What Presidents Are Made Of
Published books in USA
- My Best Friend is as Sharp as a Pencil (2010) (ISBN 978-0375853388)
- What Cats are Made Of (2009) (ISBN 978-1416915317)
- My Dog Is As Smelly As Dirty Socks (2007) (ISBN 0-375-84052-4)
- What Athletes Are Made Of (2006) (ISBN 1-416-91002-6)
- The Scary Show of Mo and Jo (2005) (ISBN 978-0762420971)
- What Presidents Are Made Of (2004) (ISBN 0-689-86880-4)
- The Perfect Purple Feather (2002) (ISBN 0-316-76657-7)
- Faces: 78 Portraits from Madonna to the Pope (2002) (ISBN 0-764-92131-2)
One man Exhibitions
- The Czech Center, Prague (2011)
- Plaza de la Concepción, Caceres, Spain (2011)
- The Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles (2010)
- Museo de los Niños, Guatemala City, Guatemala (2007)
- Museo de los Niños, Costa Rica (2007)
- Centro Cultura Judia, Sao Paulo, Brasil (2006)
- Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2004)
- Galeria Latina, Montevideo, Uruguay (2004)
- Haifa Museum, Israel (2000)
- Ashdod Museum, Israel (1998)
- Kibutz Ashdot Yaakov, Israel (1997)
- School of Visual Arts, New York City (1992)