Halleli Fried (b. 1995, Jerusalem) lives and works in Tel Aviv.
She works across drawing, painting, and printmaking, with drawing as her primary and initial mode of expression. The surfaces of her drawings, prints, and paintings are an essential part of her process, involving an ongoing engagement with paper as both material and medium, at times combined with natural materials.
Reflecting on humanity and nature as forces of transformation that simultaneously create and destroy, Fried’s practice explores states of change, emergence, and disappearance. Her work develops from attentive observation within a figurative language toward a material and tactile inquiry that gradually releases itself from figuration, examining the possibilities inherent in the material itself.
Fried completed her B.F.A. with distinction at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, where she received several excellence awards. Her work has been exhibited at venues including HaMiffal and the Charles Clore Gallery.