Elie Shamir

Elie Shamir (b. 1953, Kfar Yehoshua, Israel) A graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, Shamir returned to his birthplace of Kfar Yehoshua in 1999 as the third generation of the village's founders. The issue of place runs through his work with great force, the tangled relationship between the Jew and the land, the farmer and his field, the immigrant and the native-born. His paintings are rooted in the geological strata of the Jezreel Valley, layered with biblical past, Zionist history, and personal family memory.