Zoe Sever was born in 1974 in Lviv, Ukraine. At age 10, she began to paint and, six years later, successfully completed her art studies at the Lviv School of Arts, immediately following which she came on Aliyah to Israel. In 1996, Zoe was accepted to the architecture faculty at the Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design in Jerusalem, and from Bezalel received her degree in architecture in 2001. Sever is certainly one of Isael’s most important contemporary artists. Her artworks joyfully blend the genres of naivism and modernism, brilliantly using a shimmering palette of colors to highlight – in an idealized realism – our country’s famous urban sites (Tel Aviv’s skyline, Jerusalem’s Old City, Acre’s fortress seawall); its breathtaking landscapes (the Hula Valley; the Galilee below Nazareth; the Valley of the Cross); and its iconic figures in anachronistic settings (Herzl’s balcony appearance; Ben-Gurion’s head-stand). Sever’s whirling, wind-swept skies are in perpetual motion, perhaps symbolizing a beleaguered country buffeted by endless strife and suggesting the swiftly-passing, ephemeral nature of life. In contrast, the calm and languor surrounding Sever’s oft-present donkeys and sheep suggest the immutability and permanence of the Land and its animals, all of which are likely to survive us and our never-ending conflicts.

Zoe Sever Biography:

1974 Born in Lviv, Ukraine
1990 Moved to Tel Aviv, Israel
Graduate from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem and Lviv School of Arts, Ukraine.
Married, mother of three boys, has art studio, lives in Givatayim, Israel.
Since 2012 she has been exhibiting professionally and around the word. Her works could be found in museums and private collections , USA, Canada, Spain, France, Germany, UK, Switzerland, Australia, Holland, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan .

Solo Exhibitions:
2014 “Art is Fan”, Tiroche Gallery, Hertzelia Pituach, Israel.
2015 “Landscape of Happiness”, Gehal Hatarbut, Petah Tikva, Israel.
2015 “Local Journey”, Machon Hamaim, City Gallery, Givatayim, Israel.
2016 “Zoe Sever – Art is Fun”, Permanent Exhibition, Oncology Unit for Adolescents & Young Adults, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan, Israel.
2016 “On the Roofs of Tel Aviv”, European Janusz Korczak Academy (EJKA), Munich, Germany.
2017 “Shades of Israel”, State Museum of Arts, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
2017 “Zoe Sever-Art is Fun”, Permanent Exhibition, Ichilov Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2018 “Corners of Tel Aviv”, Blue Square Israel, Azrieli Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2019 “The Color of a Place”, International Convention Center )Binyenei HaUma), Jerusalem, Israel.
2020 “IN-OUT”, Jerusalem House of Quality, Jerusalem, Israel.

Group Exhibitions:
2001 Graduation Exhibition, Bezalel, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel.
2012 “Naive Art of Israel”, GINA Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2012 “The 5th International Naïf Art Festival”, Galeria Szyb Wilson, Katowice, Poland.
2012 “Naive Art of Israel”, Gutman Art Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
2012 “Salon D’Automne Israel”, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2012 “le Salon d’Artistes reinvente”, Paris, France.
2013 “Sweet Dreams – A Naive Reality”, GINA Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2014 “Jewish art”, Dorit Gur Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2014 “Espace Urbain”, Mémoire de l’Avenir, Paris, France.
2014 “Escalation”, City Gallery “Machon Hamayim”, Givatayim, Israel.
2015 “Zoe Sever -Art is Fun”, Permanent Exhibition, Oncology Unit for.
Adolescents & Young Adults, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan, Israel.
2015 Exhibition of two artists (Gil Gibli, Zoe Sever), newspaper Globes, Rishon Le Zion, Israel.
2015 “Homage to Leonardo”, Leonardo Plaza Hotel, Jerusalem, Israel.
2015 “Greetings! O Lovely Land”, GINA Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2015 “My Beloved Land”, Ephrat Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2015 “Israelische Kunstgraphik”, Theater Nestroyhof Hamakom, Wien, Austria.
2015 “End of Season”, Givatayim Theater, Givatayim, Israel.
2016 “Optimism of Whole” (3 artist), Beit Zion America, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2016 “Tower of Babel”, Schema Projects Gallery, Brooklyn NY, USA.
2016 “Tower of Babel”, Trebisonda Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Perugia, Italy.
2016 “Sabra”, Amiad Center, Yaffa, Israel.
2016 Fusion Festival Images in Hostka, Czech Republic.
2016 Secret Art, Bank Leumi, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2016 “Nekudat Zhut”, White City, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2017 “Vanishing Lands”, Capisani Hotel, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.
2017 “Tower of Babel”, Machon Hamaim, City Gallery, Givatayim, Israel.
2017 “ArtIpad”, Bank Beinleumi Ha Rishon, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2017 “Nekudat Zhut”, The Patti & Ernest Worth Art Gallery, Ramat Gan, Israel.
2017 “Compassion, assistance and rescue”, Beit Zion America, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2018 “The Land We Lowe”, Gina Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2018 “Parking Art”, Habima Theatre & Tel-Aviv Museum parking, Israel.
2020 “Imagining the Real”, GINA Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2020 “The Empty Space”, Givatayim Theater, Givatayim, Israel.
2021 “Heat Days”, Givatayim Theater, Givatayim, Israel.
2021 “I Choose Berlin”, Living Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
2021 “Museum in Process”, Givatayim Theater, Givatayim, Israel.
2021 “Yoffi של Israel”, Skizza gallery, Jerusalem, Israel.
2021 “Fresh Paint”, Sylvan Adams Velodrome , Gina Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.