Orit Hofshi is a prominent Israeli contemporary artist renowned for her large-scale, woodcuts and mixed-media prints, drawings and installations, that explore themes of vast time, resilience and the human condition. Based in Herzliya, Israel, Hofshi bridges traditional printmaking techniques with timeless narratives. In 2026, Orit Hofshi was awarded the Lazar Prize for Contemporary Israeli Art and will be exhibited at The Petach Tikva Museum of Art in June 2026. The Lazar Prize recognizes outstanding contemporary Israeli artists.
Hofshi’s work has been included in exhibitions which make a direct examination of work across time as in the exhibit “The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy” curated by Shelley Langdale, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Orit Hofshi’s work is in the permanent collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Philadelphia Art Museum, PA; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Kunstsammlung im Deutschen Bundestag, Berlin, Germany; among other museums and private collections. Orit Hofshi first studied at the WIZO Haifa Academy of Design and Education, Israel and continued her studies majoring in painting and printmaking at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA in 1990. She received her MA in 2002 from University of Leeds, United Kingdom.