Hanoch Piven

Hanoch Piven
חנוך פיבן
Hanoch Piven at 2018 Taipei International Book Exhibition
Born (1963-08-21) August 21, 1963
Montevideo, Uruguay
NationalityIsraeli
Known forillustration
Notable workBook 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)

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

History

Piven was born in Uruguay and moved to Israel with his family at the age of eleven. He grew up in Ramat Gan.[1] He studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York, graduating in 1992.[2] He returned to Israel in 1996 and from 2001 splits his time between Jaffa (Tel Aviv) and Barcelona.[3]

Artistic career

Hanoch Piven is recognized for dimensional collage caricatures. In these, he mixes paint with an assemblage of common objects and scraps of material, including items which might be associated with the subject, as in portraying a celebrity or public figure. (For example, using a microphone as Barbara Streisand's nose.)[4]

Piven's caricatures have appeared in Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic Monthly, The Times, and Entertainment Weekly, among other publications. [5] Between the years 1995 and 2001, Hanoch Piven illustrated and wrote a regular monthly column in Haaretz's daily newspaper. [6]

Besides his editorial work for magazines and newspapers, Piven has written and illustrated award winning books for children, among them What Presidents are Made of, named one of the 10 Best Children books of 2004 by Time Magazine,[7] and Dream Big, Laugh Often and More Great Advice from The Bible chosen as a Most Empowering Book of 2023 by Kirkus Reviews.[8]

Piven has also created Television programs for Israel Educational TV [9] and HOP channel in Israel. He has also contributed 20 chapters for the award winning program Una Ma de Contes on Catalonian TV.[10]

Partnering with app developer iMagine machine, Piven developed the app Faces iMake, among them Faces iMake - Right Brain Creativity ,[11] which allows for digital collage creation using pictures of every day objects and earned silver in the 2012 Parents' Choice Award.

Educational career

Piven conducts creative workshops in which participants of all ages are inspired to use everyday objects to create self portraits and engage in visual communication. [12]

In 2015 Piven was a Seeds of Peace fellow. During his fellowship, he created an arts education curriculum which explored identity, history, dreams, community, and "the other".[13]

Awards and recognition

  • Society of Illustrators Gold Medal (1995)
  • Society of Publication Designers Silver Medal
  • Art Directors Club Merit Award for Cover Illustration (1996)[14]
  • Folio Eddie & Ozzie awards Gold, Best Use of Illustration (2007)[15]
  • Time magazine, One of Ten in Best Children's Books Of 2004 (for What Presidents Are Made Of[16]
  • Parents' Choice Silver Award for Faces iMake - Right Brain Creativity (2012) [17]
  • Parents' Choice Gold Award for Faces iMake ABC (2013) [18]
  • Kirkus Reviews Most Empowering Picture Books of 2023 for Dream Big, Laugh Often and More Great Advice from the Bible [19]

Published works

  • Dream Big, Laugh Often: And More Great Advice from the Bible (2023) (ISBN 978-0374390105)
  • Let's Make Faces (2013) (ISBN 978-1416915324)
  • 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

  • National Gallery, Bangkok, (2014)
  • 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)

See also

References

  1. ^ My name is Hanoch and I play with my food
  2. ^ "The Atlantic Monthly Contributors". The Atlantic. 2000-02-01. Retrieved 2008-05-25.
  3. ^ https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/culture/2006-06-08/ty-article/playing-on-his-own-turf/0000017f-dbd3-df9c-a17f-ffdbfbb20000
  4. ^ "Face-to-face with Hanoch Piven | The Jerusalem Post". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. 2021-12-16. Retrieved 2025-08-18.
  5. ^ "Artist Hanoch Piven to Speak at the Library of Congress". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2025-08-18.
  6. ^ "Artist Hanoch Piven to Speak at the Library of Congress". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2025-08-18.
  7. ^ Porterfield, Christopher (17 December 2004). "Top 10 Everything 2004 - TIME". Time.
  8. ^ "Most Empowering Picture Books of 2023".
  9. ^ "סדנה עם חנוך פיבן". YouTube.
  10. ^ "Una mà de contes".
  11. ^ "Faces iMake - Right Brain Creativity Review for Teachers | Common Sense Education".
  12. ^ "Family Portrait Workshop with Hanoch Piven | Carle Museum". carlemuseum.org. 2023-11-19. Retrieved 2025-08-08.
  13. ^ "Hanoch".
  14. ^ "The Village Voice - About us". Archived from the original on 2008-04-10. Retrieved 2008-05-25.
  15. ^ "National Audubon Society - News". National Audubon Society. Archived from the original on 2008-01-03. Retrieved 2008-05-25.
  16. ^ "Time 2004 Best and Worst". Time. 2004-12-18. Archived from the original on January 6, 2005. Retrieved 2008-05-26.
  17. ^ "Faces iMake-Right Brain Creativity".
  18. ^ "Faces iMake ABC".
  19. ^ "Most Empowering Picture Books of 2023".
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