Hanoch Piven

Hanoch Piven was born in Uruguay and moved to Israel with his family at the age of eleven. He grew up in Ramat Gan.[1] He studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York, graduating in 1992.[2] When he returned to Israel in 1995, he began to work for Haaretz newspaper.[3]

Piven's illustrated compositions are assembled from common objects and scraps of materials, including items which might be associated with the subject (for example, using bologna and liquor bottles to create Boris Yeltsin for Haaretz in 2000).[4] His caricatures appear in Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic Monthly, The Times, and Entertainment Weekly, among other publications.

Piven conducts workshops around the world where he teaches his own collage technique and encourages children and adults to use common day-to-day objects to create works of art and communicate non verbally through them. The workshops are geared to diverse audiences, from school children and educators to corporate executives. Piven also lectures at international conferences.

• Society of Illustrators Gold Medal (1995)
• Society of Publication Designers Silver Medal
• Art Directors Club Merit Award for Cover Illustration (1996)[5]
• Folio Eddie & Ozzie awards Gold, Best Use of Illustration (2007)[6]
• Time magazine, One of Ten in Best Children's Books Of 2004 (for What Presidents Are Made Of[7]
• Parents' Choice Silver Award for Faces iMake - Right Brain Creativity (2012) [8]
• Parents' Choice Gold Award for Faces iMake ABC (2013) [9]

• 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)

• 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

• Official website
• Piven talks at Tedx Jerusalem, 2013
• Heflinreps, Inc. - Piven's US agent
• Piven's Workshop at Teach for All Global Conference in Bulgaria, 2016