Vofsi responds to the currents of modern Jewish life, in the Diaspora and Israel. Tackling the spectrum of Jewish existence, he spotlights communal and personal stories by creating oil-paint portraits, landscapes and still-lifes.

Vofsi depicts Jewish subjects in the style of European classical realism, catapulting them into an iconic oeuvre that has always excluded or fetishised them. Aesthetically traditional, Vofsi’s art exists at that non-traditional intersection as a reclamation of an art world unavailable to Jews in previous centuries. His work is new Orientalism, de-colonised and de-fetishised. 

Vofsi completed a Bachelor of Illustration at Melbourne Polytechnic, but is primarily self-taught.

Previous exhibitions include:

• B’aretz: Portrait of a land (2023), a reflective look at his first visit to Israel and growing Jewish identity.

• Essentials: Portraits of front-line workers (2022), an homage to the essential workers of the Covid-19 lockdowns in Melbourne.  An exhibition catalog is housed at the State Library of Victoria.

• Djabwurrung Heritage Embassy (2020), a depiction of Indigenous Australians fighting for culture and Country. 

In 2022, Vofsi was a finalist in the Archibald Prize, Australia’s most prestigious national portrait prize, for John Safran as David and Goliath. The painting was exhibited at Art Gallery NSW and the National Portrait Gallery, and is permanently housed at the Jewish Museum of Australia.