Yair Garbuz

Yair Garbuz
יאיר גרבוז
Born(1945-09-29)29 September 1945
Givatayim, Mandatory Palestine
Died29 April 2026(2026-04-29) (aged 80)
Ramat Gan, Israel
Occupations
  • Visual artist
  • writer
  • author
  • humorist

Yair Garbuz (Hebrew: יאיר גרבוז; 29 September 1945 – 29 April 2026) was an Israeli visual artist, writer, author, humorist and opinion journalist. He was a recipient of the 2004 EMET Prize in painting and was director of the HaMidrasha Art School at Beit Berl College for 12 years.[1]

Early life and education

Yair Garbuz mural, Carmelit station, Haifa

Yair Garbuz was born in Givatayim, Mandatory Palestine on September 29, 1945.[2][3][4] His parents were immigrants from Poland.[3][5] His siblings included Aharon Harel, who went on to serve as a member of the Knesset from 1981 to 1988, and Alon Garbuz, the manager of the Tel Aviv Cinematheque.[4]

From 1962 to 1967, while a member of Kibbutz Kfar HaHoresh, he studied painting under Raffi Lavie. He also attended the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv.[4]

Career

From his debut exhibition in 1967,[4] Garbuz's artwork, which included paintings and collage work,[5] appeared in dozens of one-man shows and group exhibitions in Israel and abroad.

In the 1970s Garbuz worked in a variety of media, from installations to artist's books containing political commentary and self-parody. He often referenced other artists and employed visual and verbal jokes. More specifically, he wrote satirical cultural commentaries for Davar Aher, a supplement to the Hebrew-language newspaper Davar, using the alias Y. Polani.[4][5] On Israeli television, he hosted a satirical show on Channel 2 and appeared as a cultural panelist on Channel 8.[3][5]

Gabruz was also an educator. From 1973 to 2009, Garbuz taught at "HaMidrasha" art faculty, Beit Berl College, which he directed from 1997.[3] He also taught at the Avni Institute, Tel-Hai Academic College, and the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem.[2] He became the Cultural Director of Basis for Art & Culture, an art school in Herzliya, in 2015.[6]

Death

Garbuz died on 29 April 2026, at the age of 80, as a result of a prolonged illness.[7][8]

Awards and recognition

Garbuz was described as "adept in the poetics of loneliness, constantly lighting fires that signal from one mountaintop to the next an ironic wish to belong."[9]

Published works

  • Always Polish (1989)[5]
  • A House in the Galilee (2014)[5][10]
  • Expected Changes in My Distant Past (2020)[5]
  • Terribly Beautiful (2025)[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ A model artist, here and now
  2. 1 2 3 "Isracast". Archived from the original on 10 June 2011. Retrieved 15 March 2009.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Steinberg, Jessica (29 April 2026). "Artist, left-wing activist and writer Yair Garbuz dies at 80". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 30 April 2026.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Brown, Hannah (30 April 2026). "Influential Israeli painter and satirist Yair Garbuz dies at 80". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 30 April 2026.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Riba, Naama (29 April 2026). "Yair Garbuz, Groundbreaking Israeli Artist and Vocal Critic, Dies at 80". Haaretz. Retrieved 30 April 2026.
  6. ↑ Litman, Shani (7 December 2014). "בית הספר לפיסול "בסיס" עובר להרצליה, בהובלת יעקב דורצ'ין". Haaretz. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
  7. ↑ "Artist and satirist Yair Garbuz has died". Ynet. 29 April 2026. Retrieved 29 April 2026.
  8. ↑ Ben-Nun, Sagi (29 April 2026). "Award-winning painter and writer Yair Garbuz passes away at the age of 80" (in Hebrew). Walla!. Retrieved 29 April 2026.
  9. ↑ Siman-Tov, Naomi (18 October 2007). "Portrait of the Artist as a Portrait". Haaretz. Retrieved 30 April 2026.
  10. ↑ Davis, Barry (28 October 2014). "Painting the words". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 30 April 2026.
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