Biography of Mordechai Penn

Born: 1938, Petach Tikva, Israel
The hyper-realist Mordechai Penn (Pinhasovich) graduated from the Bezalel Art School (Jerusalem, Israel) in 1963. Afterwards he studied at the Slade School of Fine Arts, London and travelled in the United States. He has had several one-man exhibitions in Israel (Katz-Gallery, Old Jaffa Gallery and Chemerinski) and took part in many group shows and fairs in London (Holborn Artists), Amsterdam (Anne Frankhuis), Basel (Art Fair) and New York (Helen Ritz-Gallery).

At the start of his career his work was influenced by Abstract, Surrealism and Expressionism and in the sixties by Pop-art. In the seventies he turned to a more realistic approach and painted oil paintings based on his Collages.
In the eighties his realism evolved by the influence of conceptual art. In the nineties,  Moti Penn reverted to working on collages, on the basis of which he did paintings in colored pencil on paper.
At the start of the new millennium, he painted large oil paintings, based on computer-processed ’Virtual Realism’’, exposed in 2002 in one man show. During 2006-9 , he was working on large oil paintings series, in Hipper Realism style. These oil paintings exhibited in several galleries as one man show.
From  2009, he is working with oil colors by the inspiration of his new collages.