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Hi, I'm Avraham Vofsi.

Israel-based, Australian Jewish artist Avraham Vofsi is creating a new visual language for modern Jewish expression.

An integral part of the emerging school of contemporary Israeli realism, Vofsi works alongside other artists developing the nascent Hebrew art movement.

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Biography

Avraham Vofsi (b. 1989, Australia) is a Jewish artist based in Israel, working in classical oil painting. Born in Melbourne to American parents, he grew up as a Jew in a non-Jewish city. Inspired by the connection Indigenous Australians had to land and history, he began painting stories of marginalised communities before turning inward—toward his own identity and the Jewish story.


Today, Vofsi’s work blends narrative figuration with observational realism to explore Jewish life, history, and belonging. He’s part of the emerging Israeli realism movement, developing a new visual language for modern Jewish expression. His work reclaims the canon of classical European painting by centering the Jewish subjects it once left out.


His paintings have been exhibited in institutions including the Art Gallery of NSW, the National Portrait Gallery of Australia, the Jewish Museum of Florida, and the State Library of Victoria. In 2022, he was a finalist for the Archibald Prize.

Selected Media

Avraham Vofsi: An aliyah journey painted on canvas

Jerusalem Post

20 בספט׳ 2025

Vofsi is currently planning a landscape project with Aboriginal communities, informed by his deepened understanding of what it means to belong to a land as a Jew in Israel.

Avi Vofsi: Embracing Jewish identity through art

Jerusalem Post

3 באוק׳ 2024

These paintings and smaller landscapes that Vofsi has painted during his travels around the country in the aftermath of October 7 have contributed to the strengthening of his Jewish identity.

The aliyah art of Avraham Vofsi

The Jewish Independant

28 בנוב׳ 2024

Since his controversial portrait of John Safran, Avraham Vofsi has morphed into an artist entranced by his new life in Israel.

Avraham Vofsi, painter of modern Jewish life

Iton News

17 באוג׳ 2024

The artist is creating a new visual language for modern Jewish expression. Avraham responds to the currents of modern Jewish life, both in the diaspora and in Israel.

‘No words’: Soldiers, immigrants, sabra artists exhibit together in Jerusalem

Times of Israel

15 בנוב׳ 2024

Group exhibition marking one year since Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack brings mix of oils, watercolors, drawings, photographs and installations to Jerusalem Biennale gallery

Masa careers have no limits for this Australian artist

J-Wire Magazine

21 באוג׳ 2022

Avraham Vofsi, originally from Australia, is currently a Masa Career Fellow on Maslool living in Tel Aviv.

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