About
Shlomi Nahmani (b. 1979) lives and works in Tel Aviv. He is a graduate of the Department of Visual Communication at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (2005).
Co-founder of The-Studio, a design agency specializing in graphic design, web, and branding (est. 2010).
Nahmani’s love for Hebrew literature and depictions of local nature was shaped early on by landscape artists who inspired him from a young age, such as Hermann Struck, Anna Ticho, Ofer Lellouche, and Walid Abu Shakra.
In 2022, he wrote and illustrated the children’s poetry book Family Affairs (Tangier Publishing), which was met with wide acclaim.
Artist Statement
I was born and raised in Jerusalem, in the Katamonim neighborhood of the 1980s.
From my parents’ balcony stretched a wide, mountainous view. In the foreground stood two towering cypress trees.
This was the landscape of my childhood, etched deeply into my memory. The two cypresses at my parents’ home are soon to be cut down to make way for a construction project, as are the distant hills, slowly devoured by expanding development.
This widespread phenomenon—of familiar landscapes disappearing and being replaced by ones in which nature plays a lesser role—lies at the heart of my artistic practice. Most of my etchings contemplate the Israeli landscape from a romantic, almost apocalyptic perspective: documenting it just before its final disappearance.
My choice to work in the technique of etching is also rooted in this approach—an artistic act that returns to primal drawing, the kind often dismissed in certain postmodern circles as no longer “truly” art. In recent years, I’ve also begun to create portraits of my cultural heroes—figures who, like the local landscape, are gradually fading: some into old age, others into cultural oblivion. All my etchings are made using the drypoint method—the most basic and physical of all printmaking techniques.
Selected Exhibitions
2025 Left Overs, group exhibition, Tel Aviv
2025 Bread and Roses 19, art sale supporting the “Women, Work, and Sustainability” project
2024 Portraits of Spirit, solo exhibition, Sipur Pashut Bookstore, Tel Aviv
2023 King of the Hill, group illustration exhibition, curated by Shimon Angel and Naama Lahav
2022 Loving Art, Making Art, Eliyahu, Tel Aviv, curated by Tali Ben-Nun and Ofra Charan
2021 68 Boys and Girls, illustrated memorial installation, Tel Aviv
2021 Reference, LaCulture, Tel Aviv
2019 Disruption, Vitrina Gallery, HIT Holon
2018 Contemporary Local Print, group exhibition, Jerusalem Print Workshop
2018 Contemporary Local Print, group exhibition, Jerusalem Print Workshop
2018 Artist Wall, solo exhibition, Less than a Thousand Gallery, Tel Aviv
2018 Folk Tune, group design exhibition, Beit HaOmanim, Tel Aviv, curated by Yuval Saar
2017 Impressions from Urban Wandering, solo exhibition, Beit HaOmanim, Tel Aviv, curated by Avigail Reiner
2017 37th Mini Print International of Cadaqués, printmaking group exhibition, Spain
2017 Enter into Art, printmaking group exhibition, Germany
2016 Pencil, group exhibition, Studio AAA, Tel Aviv, curated by Limor Yusuphun
2014 Design Museum at Beit HaOmanim, Beit HaOmanim, Tel Aviv
2014 Design Award, finalist exhibition, Tel Aviv University
2013 The Mizrahim, outdoor exhibition, part of Design Week Holon
2014 Design Award, finalist exhibition, Tel Aviv University