Eran Shakine

Shakine was born in Israel to a French father and a Hungarian mother, both holocaust survivors who came to Israel after the Second World War. He lived extensively in Paris, London and for seven years in New York City where he won a scholarship and was the assistant of the Cobra Movement artist, Carl Appel. He has had one-man shows in The Drawing Center in New York, as well as in London, Paris, Brussels, Toronto and Tel Aviv. His works are in the permanent collections of the British Museum, London; Ludwig Museum, Aachen, Germany; Tel Aviv Museum, Israel and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, as well as in many corporate and private collections. He lives between Tel Aviv and London with his family.
The author, Nuit Banai, received her PhD in Art History at Columbia University before joining the Department of Visual and Critical Studies at Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She is a regular contributor to Artforum International, a contributing editor for Art Papers and has written for Art Journal, Frieze, Modern Painters and Time Out New York.
This book will be copublished in association with Edition Jürgen B. Tesch.