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(Glasgow: Collins Gallery, 1991)

Waldemar Januszczak, Zadok Ben-David: Sculpture 1987-90, exh. Employing his interest in science and visual tricks, it offered viewers limited vantage points while evoking, despite its simplicity, a haunting landscape marked by wars and plagues. cat. Art from the Renaissance to Artificial Intelligence, Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy

Group Show, Rarity Gallery, Mykonos, Greece

Just Another Day, Gathering Exhibition, ZUMU - Museum On The Move, Kibbutz Bror Chail, Israel

Handstand, Changing Horizons, Eilat Art Gallery, Israel

Blackfield, Ennova Art Biennale, Beijing, China
Genetic Memory, The Rubin Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel

Sour Sweet (Video), XXII Cerveira International Art Biennale Cerveira, Cerveira, Portugal

Horse Power, “O poder do objeto” (The power of the object), Museu Bienal De Cerveira, Cerveira, Portugal

The Bright Reincarnation of the Antelope, The Love of Art comes first, Art & Project at the Kröller-Müller Museum, Netherlands

Aya Uma, Nascosti alla luce del sole, Nashira Gallery, Milan, Italy

People I Saw But Never Met, New Horizon: Vision of the Future, Arts Maebashi, Japan

Figure (Dots), Art Macao: Macao International Art Biennale, Macao

Shrubs, Flowers and Decay, Galerie Albrecht, Berlin, Germany

Forest Through the Trees, Laumeier Sculpture Park, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

Girl on the Run, XXII Cerveira International Art Biennale Cerveira, Cerveira, Portugal

Big Boy, Boom Festival, Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal

Les Extatiques, Open Gallery La Defense, Paris, France

XXI Cerveira International Art Biennial, Cerveira, Portugal

Continuous Regeneration, Columbia Circle, Shanghai, China

Breda Photo Biennale, Breda, Netherlands

Continuous Refle(a)ction, Riverside Art Museum, Beijing, China

Through The Looking Glass, Cob Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Sunny Moon, Sculpture by the sea, Cottesloe, Perth, Australia

Sunny Moon, Sculpture by the sea, Bondi beach, Sydney, Australia

Big Boy, Sculpture by the sea, Cottesloe, Perth, Australia

Evolution & Theory, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Blackfield, Kenpoku Art Festival, Iberaki, Japan

Newland, Kunstverein Viernheim, Heidenheim, Germany

Masterpiece, South Grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, UK

Newland, Kontur.

Hales Gallery, Deptford mounted his exhibition, Black Fields in 2007. Ben-David thus highlighted our shared humanity, inviting viewers to empathise with unknown individuals. Separately, his boxes series, in which different themes or visuals from exhibitions are contained within transparent boxes, has none of the busy aesthetics of Joseph Cornell but, nevertheless, nods to the desire for boxed archiving.

In addition to his practice, Ben-David taught sculpture at Saint Martin’s between 1977-82 and at Ravensbourne College of Art and Design from 1982- 85.

Supported by Sotheby’s in 2008, Ben-David created a public sculpture, Four Seasons for Hanover Square in Mayfair. The exhibition captured the breadth of human existence, featuring nameless strangers from Europe, USA, South America, Asia, Australia, and Antarctica, ambitiously documenting the universal human condition and celebrating the diversity of global demographics.

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Blackfield, The 4th CAA International Printmaking Triennial, Museum of Contemporary Art, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China

Blackfield, FLOWERS. This ‘seasonal’ piece—composed of interconnected human figures—underwent a dynamic transformation as the metal oxidised, altering its colour in response to environmental conditions.

Zadok Ben-David is an award-winning, London based artist, widely acclaimed for his sculptures, installations and public artworks. (Glasgow: Collins Gallery, 1990)

Rachel Kirby, ed., From Two Worlds, exh. He came of age during the rise of the New British Sculpture movement in the 1980s, which marked a departure from the minimalism and conceptualism that dominated the 1960s and 1970s.

Natural Reserve engaged with ecological themes, exploring the precarious conditions of nature and human engagement with it, contemplating both its tragic aspects and hopeful prospects.

Ben-David represented his country Israel at the Venice Biennale in 1988 and participated to numerous biennales worldwide. His practice explores the interconnected themes of civilisation, environment, evolution, nature, Western science, technology, and the human condition, contemplating its absurdity alongside a sense of hope. (Cavagnolo: Place Arte Contemporanea, 2001)

Binghui Huangfu, B, ed., Evolution and Theory: Zadok Ben-David, exh.

The centrepiece was the installation Blackfield, a 360-degree piece consisting of 17,000 etched and hand-painted flowers.

Ben-David's oeuvre includes sculpture, installation, and public artworks, often made of metal, where the material generates optical illusions. This results in a poetic and delicate sense of magic in his works, rooted in his passion for magic tricks.

Ben-David has exhibited widely.

His work is often referred to as poetic and magical, always oscillating between delicate miniature-work and monumental installations. He studied the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem from 1971-73 but after graduation, in 1974, he immigrated to England, attending the University of Reading and then London's Saint Martin’s School of Art, where he studied under Anthony Caro, William Tucker and Phillip King.

His 2024 Los Angeles exhibition, From Here, There, and Everywhere, featured over 70 meticulously crafted aluminium sculptures from the series People I Saw but Never Met, begun in 2015, which explored the paradox of simultaneous closeness and isolation, representing real individuals whom Ben-David photographed during his travels, later translating this imagery into aluminium figures.