2023
82X73 cm
Acrilyc on canvas
Framed
Moshe Tarka | Together
Moshe Tarka was born in Ethiopia in 1981. In 1984, at the age of three, he immigrated with his family to Israel via Sudan in Operation Moses. He lives in Gan Yavne and works in Tel Aviv. Holds a bachelor's degree in industrial design from Sapir Academic College, Sderot (2011). Recipient of the 2008 Ashdod Young Artist Award in the Visual Arts category (chairman of the prize committee: Yona Fischer).
Tarka is a multidisciplinary artist whose oeuvre spans paintings, sculptures, mixed media reliefs, painting installations, and other techniques. His works result from research into his personal identity as a black-Jewish-Israeli artist.