Hanoch Piven

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Nationality Israeli Known for Illustration Education School of Visual Arts		Role Artist Name Hanoch Piven

Born August 21, 1963 (age 60) ( 1963-08-21 ) Montevideo, Uruguay Notable work Book My Best Friend is as Sharp as a Pencil (2010)Book What Cats are Made of (2008)Book My Dog is As Smelly As Dirty Socks (2007)Book What Athletes are Made of (2006)Book What Presidents Are Made Of (2004)Book The Perfect Purple Feather (2002) Books My Best Friend Is As Sharp, What presidents are made, The perfect purple feather, What cats are made of, Faces

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Hanoch Piven (born August 21, 1963 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is an Israeli mixed media artist best known for his celebrity caricatures.

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History

Hanoch Piven was born in Uruguay and raised in Israel. He studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York, graduating in 1992. When he returned to Israel in 1995, he began to work for Haaretz newspaper.

Artistic career

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Piven's illustrated compositions are assembled from common objects and scraps of materials, including items which might be associated with the subject (for example, using bologna and liquor bottles to create Boris Yeltsin for Haaretz in 2000. His caricatures appear in Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic Monthly, The Times, and Entertainment Weekly, among other publications.

Workshops and Teachings

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Piven conducts workshops in cities as Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Toronto, Tel Aviv, New York and others. The workshops follow the principles of Piven's own collage technique and encourage children and adults to use common day-to-day objects and pieces of the world around them to create works of art and communicate non verbally through them. The workshops are geared to diverse audiences from school children and educators to corporate executives. Piven also lectures about Creativity and Play in diverse Education and Innovation international conferences.

Awards and recognition

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Society of Illustrators Gold Medal (1995)

Society of Publication Designers Silver Medal

Art Directors Club Merit Award for Cover Illustration (1996)

Folio Eddie & Ozzie awards Gold, Best Use of Illustration (2007)

Time magazine, One of Ten in Best Children's Books Of 2004 (for What Presidents Are Made Of

Parents' Choice Silver Award for Faces iMake - Right Brain Creativity (2012)

Parents' Choice Gold Award for Faces iMake ABC (2013)

Published works

My Best Friend is as Sharp as a Pencil (2010) (ISBN 978-0375853388)

What Cats are Made Of (2009) (ISBN 978-1416915317)

My Dog Is As Smelly As Dirty Socks (2007) (ISBN 0-375-84052-4)

What Athletes Are Made Of (2006) (ISBN 1-416-91002-6)

The Scary Show of Mo and Jo (2005) (ISBN 978-0762420971)

What Presidents Are Made Of (2004) (ISBN 0-689-86880-4)

The Perfect Purple Feather (2002) (ISBN 0-316-76657-7)

Faces: 78 Portraits from Madonna to the Pope (2002) (ISBN 0-764-92131-2)

One-man exhibitions

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The Czech Center, Prague (2011)

Plaza de la Concepción, Caceres, Spain (2011)

The Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles (2010)

Museo de los Niños, Guatemala City, Guatemala (2007)

Museo de los Niños, Costa Rica (2007)

Centro Cultura Judia, São Paulo, Brasil (2006)

Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2004)

Galeria Latina, Montevideo, Uruguay (2004)

Haifa Museum, Israel (2000)

Ashdod Museum, Israel (1998)

Kibbutz Ashdot Yaakov, Israel (1997)

School of Visual Arts, New York City (1992)

References

Hanoch Piven Wikipedia

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