photographed by Tamar Tsubery
Halleli Fried (b. 1995, Jerusalem) is a Tel Aviv–based artist working in drawing, painting, and printmaking. Her practice integrates natural materials with a sustained exploration of paper as both medium and craft.
Informed by Giorgio Morandi’s assertion that “nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see,” her work begins in attentive observation and develops into a material and tactile inquiry. Fried investigates states of transformation and disappearance, examining how time and perception shape the emergence and dissolution of the image.
Fried is completing her B.F.A. at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, where she received the 2025 Excellence Award. She was awarded the Cooper Scholarship for an art study trip in New York. Her work has been shown at venues including HaMiffal and the Charles Clore Gallery.
Education
2021–2025
B.F.A. in Fine Arts, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
Teaching Certificate, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2020–2021
Professional Jewelry-Making Course, Maziar Yeshurun Studio, Ramat Gan
Graphic Design Studies HaKubiya School, Jerusalem
2018–2020
Traditional Jewelry Studies, Dharamshala, India
Exhibitions (Selected)
2025
To Draw Out a Butterfly – Graduate Exhibition, Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem
Paper Positions – Group exhibition, Charles Clore Gallery, Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem
2024
Open Window – Group exhibition, Elovik Gallery, Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem
12.10.2023 – End-of-Year Exhibition, Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem
2023
Long Shadow – Group exhibition, HaMiffal, Jerusalem
Residencies
2023
War Diary, Artist Residency, HaMiffal, Jerusalem
Awards and Honors
2025
Award for Excellence – Efrat Family Prize,
Excellence Award, Department of Fine Arts, Bezalel Academy
2024
Cooper Scholarship, New York