Hanoch Piven

Piven was born in Uruguay and moved to Israel with his family at the age of eleven. He grew up in Ramat Gan.[https://www.israel21c.org/my-name-is-hanoch-and-i-play-with-my-food/ My name is Hanoch and I play with my food] He studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York, graduating in 1992.{{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/02/002contrib.htm |title=The Atlantic Monthly Contributors |accessdate=2008-05-25 |date=2000-02-01 |work=The Atlantic}} He returned to Israel in 1996 and from 2001 splits his time between Jaffa (Tel Aviv) and Barcelona.https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/culture/2006-06-08/ty-article/playing-on-his-own-turf/0000017f-dbd3-df9c-a17f-ffdbfbb20000

Piven's artworks are dimensional collages mixing paint with an assemblage of common objects and scraps of materials, including items which might be associated with the subject matter, specifically when creating a portrait of a well known person. (for example, using bologna and liquor bottles to create Boris Yeltsin for Haaretz in 2000).{{cite web |url=http://www.pivenworld.com/boris-yeltsin/illustration/tag/4 |title=Boris Yeltsin by Hanoch Piven |accessdate=2011-07-02 |work=pivenworld.com |archive-date=2011-09-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930014641/http://www.pivenworld.com/boris-yeltsin/illustration/tag/4 |url-status=dead }}

Press: His caricatures have appeared in Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic Monthly, The Times, and Entertainment Weekly, among other publications.

Between the years 1995 and 2001 Piven illustrated and wrote a regular monthly column in Haaretz daily newspaper which gained notoriety and established him as a singular creative voice in Israel.{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNSpT04XIIQ&t=4s | title=Israeli artist who can't draw, publishes his art on Time & Rolling Stone | website=YouTube | date=10 June 2014 }}

Children Books: Besides his editorial work for magazines and newspapers, Piven has written and illustrated award winning books for children, among them What Presidents are Made of, named one of the 10 Best Children books of 2004 by Time Magazine,{{cite magazine | url=https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1999700_1998816_1999657,00.html | title=Top 10 Everything 2004 - TIME | magazine=Time | date=17 December 2004 | last1=Porterfield | first1=Christopher }} and Dream Big, Laugh Often and More Great Advice from The Bible chosen as a Most Empowering Book of 2023 by Kirkus Reviews.{{cite web | url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-lists/most-empowering-picture-books-2023/#dream-big-laugh-often | title=Most Empowering Picture Books of 2023 }}

TV: Piven has also created Television programs for Israel Educational TV {{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCE8D051221B747EC | title=סדנה עם חנוך פיבן | website=YouTube }} and HOP channel in Israel and contributed 20 chapters for the award winning program Una Ma de Contes on Catalonian TV.{{cite web | url=https://www.3cat.cat/tv3/sx3/una-ma-de-contes/videos/temporada-7/ | title=Una mà de contes }}

APPS: Partnering with App developer iMagine machine Piven developed the Apple App Faces iMake series, among them Faces iMake - Right Brain Creativity {{cite web | url=https://www.commonsense.org/education/reviews/faces-imake-right-brain-creativity | title=Faces iMake - Right Brain Creativity Review for Teachers | Common Sense Education }} an iPhone and iPad App which allows for digital creation using pictures of every day objects and earned the 2012 - Parents' Choice Silver Award.

Piven conducts creative workshops in which participants of all ages are inspired to use everyday objects to create and communicate through art. The workshops are designed to inspire creativity, introspection, and dialogue among participants. Piven’s workshops cater to a wide range of audiences, including schools, universities, companies, and various organizations around the world.{{Cite web |title=Artist Hanoch Piven Website: Art & Creative Workshops |url=https://www.pivenworld.com/pivenworld |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=www.pivenworld.com}}

In 2015 Piven was a Seeds of Peace fellow, creating during his fellowship an arts education curriculum which explored identity, history, dreams, community, and "the other".{{cite web | url=https://www.seedsofpeace.org/changemakers/hanoch/ | title=Hanoch }}

• Society of Illustrators Gold Medal (1995)
• Society of Publication Designers Silver Medal
• Art Directors Club Merit Award for Cover Illustration (1996){{cite web |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/aboutus/index.php?page=awards |title=The Village Voice - About us |accessdate=2008-05-25 |archive-date=2008-04-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410112729/http://www.villagevoice.com/aboutus/index.php?page=awards |url-status=dead }}
• Folio Eddie & Ozzie awards Gold, Best Use of Illustration (2007){{cite web |url=http://web1.audubon.org/news/pressRelease.php?id=63&month=09-07 |title=National Audubon Society - News |access-date=2008-05-25 |publisher=National Audubon Society |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080103193850/http://web1.audubon.org/news/pressRelease.php?id=63 |archive-date=2008-01-03 }}
• Time magazine, One of Ten in Best Children's Books Of 2004 (for What Presidents Are Made Of{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/bestandworst/2004/childrens.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050106083442/http://www.time.com/time/bestandworst/2004/childrens.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 6, 2005 |title=Time 2004 Best and Worst |accessdate=2008-05-26 |magazine=Time | date=2004-12-18}}
• Parents' Choice Silver Award for Faces iMake - Right Brain Creativity (2012) {{cite web|url=http://www.parents-choice.org/product.cfm?product_id=30347&StepNum=1&award=aw | title=Faces iMake-Right Brain Creativity }}
• Parents' Choice Gold Award for Faces iMake ABC (2013) {{cite web|url=http://www.parents-choice.org/product.cfm?product_id=31418&StepNum=1&award=aw | title=Faces iMake ABC }}
• Kirkus Reviews Most Empowering Picture Books of 2023 for Dream Big, Laugh Often and More Great Advice from the Bible {{cite web | url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-lists/most-empowering-picture-books-2023/#dream-big-laugh-often | title=Most Empowering Picture Books of 2023 }}

• Dream Big, Laugh Often: And More Great Advice from the Bible (2023) (ISBN 978-0374390105)
• Let's Make Faces (2013) (ISBN 978-1416915324)
• My Best Friend is as Sharp as a Pencil (2010) ({{ISBN|978-0375853388}})
• What Cats are Made Of (2009) ({{ISBN|978-1416915317}})
• My Dog Is As Smelly As Dirty Socks (2007) ({{ISBN|0-375-84052-4}})
• What Athletes Are Made Of (2006) ({{ISBN|1-416-91002-6}})
• The Scary Show of Mo and Jo (2005) ({{ISBN|978-0762420971}})
• What Presidents Are Made Of (2004) ({{ISBN|0-689-86880-4}})
• The Perfect Purple Feather (2002) ({{ISBN|0-316-76657-7}})
• Faces: 78 Portraits from Madonna to the Pope (2002) ({{ISBN|0-764-92131-2}})

• National Gallery, Bangkok, (2014)
• The Czech Center, Prague (2011)
• Plaza de la Concepción, Caceres, Spain (2011)
• The Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles (2010)
• Museo de los Niños, Guatemala City, Guatemala (2007)
• Museo de los Niños, Costa Rica (2007)
• Centro Cultura Judia, São Paulo, Brasil (2006)
• Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2004)
• Galeria Latina, Montevideo, Uruguay (2004)
• Haifa Museum, Israel (2000)
• Ashdod Museum, Israel (1998)
• Kibbutz Ashdot Yaakov, Israel (1997)
• School of Visual Arts, New York City (1992)

• Visual arts in Israel

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• {{Official website|http://www.pivenworld.com}}
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e99DuPQ6j8 Piven talks at Tedx Jerusalem, 2013]
• [http://heflinreps.com Heflinreps, Inc. - Piven's US agent]
• [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/faces-imake-right-brain-creativity/id439641851 Faces iMake on App Store.]
• [https://www.exploratorium.edu/tinkering/tinkerers/hanoch-piven Hanoch Piven Tinkerer page at Exploratorium Museum in San Francisco]
• [https://www.seedsofpeace.org/team/hanoch-piven/ Hanoch Piven profile at https://www.seedsofpeace.org/]

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