Omri Danino is a visual artist and poet whose work explores the tension between Hebrew text and image. Working across painting, drawing, textile, video, sculpture, performance, and writing, he investigates how personal and collective traumas shape language, and how breaking the structure of language can open new spaces for visual expression.

His practice often engages body, memory, gender, and Jewish mysticism. In his woven works, he hand-weaves rubber straps into surfaces that shift between painting and sculpture. The repetitive act of weaving recalls the rhythm of prayer, like the gentle davening - the swaying of a body in the synagogue.

In performance, Danino creates intimate environments where the naked body confronts trauma, often through texts he writes or poems by others who shaped him. His drawings push Hebrew script to its edge, where words fracture, dissolve, and transform into images.

Across these mediums, Danino persistently investigates the threshold where language ends and image begins.

Bio
Omri Danino (b. 1987, Israel) is a visual artist, poet, and literary editor based in Tel Aviv. He holds a BFA and MFA in Fine Arts from Bezalel Academy, both with honors. Danino is the recipient of the Rappaport Prize for Art (2024) and lectures at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

His work has been exhibited in major institutions, including the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, MUZA – Eretz Israel Museum, and the Jerusalem Drawing Biennale. It is included in prominent collections such as the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Rappaport Collection, the Swedish Embassy, and the Bezalel Collection.