Artist and sculpture teacher, graduate of the Hamidrasha School of Arts in Ramat Gan, the Florence Academy of Art, and the Hamburg School of Fine Art. His sculptures are located in various places around the country, and have been exhibited in various solo and group exhibitions both locally and abroad. Kantor has won scholarships and awards, including the Encouragement of the Arts Prize of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, the Sharet Fund Culture Prize, and the Altonaer Hamburg Prize. His works are included in the collections of several leading museums, among them the Israel Museum and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, as well as private collections in Israel and Germany.
Academic positions
2013: HIT - Holon Institute of Technology
1990-2012: Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
2004-2006: Avni Institute of Art and Design
1998-2004: Tel Aviv University School of Architecture
1994-2000: Camera Obscura School for the Arts
Selected exhibitions
2012: “Suspicion of Responsibility”, Ha'Kibbutz gallery
2010: “Short kilometers and Long Kilometers[o1] ”, Artists House, Tel Aviv
2006: “Hotel - It may be a verbal riddle!”, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2003: “Nethanel's Paradise Birds”, Haifa Museum of Art
1992: “Computer [o2] Books”, special project, Tel Aviv Museum
1992: “Packages of Feeling”, Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan
Awards
2004: Encouragement of the Arts Prize, Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sport
1995: Keren Sharet Prize, America-Israel Fund
1992: Biata S. Kuliner Prize, Israel Museum
1987: Altonaer Hamburg Prize
Public sculptures
2014: “Fidelius[o3] ”, Tel Aviv District Court
2009: “City Fish”, Palmer Square, Haifa
1999: “Blessing for the Four-Legged”, sculpture garden, Tel Aviv Museum
1989: “Ambition”, South Park, Tel Aviv
