Ami Raviv Is an Israeli artist, a graduate of Hamidrasha Academy for Arts (BFA) and Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (MFA). He is the winner of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation award (2001-2002) and Mifal HaPais foundation for the arts award (2006) and has exhibited numerous solo and group shows in Israel and abroad. His works are featured in several private and public collections.

Raviv’s works combine both painting and sculpture. he draws his silhouette on industrial wood surfaces, he then carves out the signature of his body and finally covers it with linoleum and creates fields of color on top of it. These works express an ongoing investigation of body memory and its concrete and metaphorical embedment in its environment. The results is an illusive and abstract geography, both familiar and foreign. These maps portray an imaginary topography of possible landscapes and at the same time inherit the most intimate - the artist׳s body, from which they originate and then recast. The object range from rigidity to movement, from an industrial color palette to a material one, from minimalism to performative sculpture, from ready-made to conceptualization, and from industrial materials and everyday forms, such as doors and appliances, to abstract compositions.

In Raviv's works, he examines the concept of three-dimensional space versus the two- the dimensional surface of the map as an expression of the ideological-political, cultural, and artistic tension immanent to the idea of mapping. The sculptural paintings are both anthropomorphic and scenic. The body marks manifest as exposed ancient gorges and mountains inviting the viewer to walk within and explore them. At the same time, they are abstracted from any image, offering themselves as a meeting and confrontation arena between the softness of wrinkles and twists and the changing energies of color.