SELECTED WORKS
A selection from the Simon Edery Archive, bringing together works from across his artistic practice. Biblical narratives, harlequins, memory, family relationships and the human figure recur throughout the archive, forming a distinctive visual language that moves between the intimate, the theatrical and the dreamlike.
Red Tears of Bosnia
1998
The Creation of Adam & Eve
from God’s Hands
1985
The Musical Party
1975
RECURRING WORLDS
Three recurring worlds that shape Simon Edery’s visual language.
01
GENESIS
A distinct series devoted to scenes from the Book of Genesis, reimagined through Edery’s symbolic and dreamlike visual language.
02
HARLEQUINS & THEATRICAL FIGURES
Harlequins, clowns and theatrical figures recur throughout the archive, creating a vivid visual world of color, movement, performance and human emotion.
03
HUMAN BONDS & GENERATIONS
Children, elders and intimate human encounters recur throughout the work, exploring connection, tenderness and relationships across generations.
THE ARTIST
Simon Edery (1952–2005) was a Moroccan-born figurative painter whose artistic journey unfolded across France, Spain and Israel. He studied painting at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and, from 1977 to 1979, was a resident of the Artistic Section of Casa de Velázquez in Madrid. His work was presented in Europe and abroad during the 1970s and early 1980s. In 1985, Edery moved to Israel, where he lived and worked until his death in 2005. Across paintings on canvas and wood, works on paper and the GENESIS series, he developed a distinctive, dreamlike visual language shaped by biblical narratives, harlequins, childhood memory, family relationships and the human figure.
EXHIBITIONS & RECOGNITION
Simon Edery’s archival record traces an artistic path across France, Spain, Germany, Colombia and Israel. Selected exhibitions, institutional affiliations and surviving documents provide a record of his professional activity from the 1970s through the final decades of his life.
1972
PARIS, FRANCE
Early documented exhibition activity
1977–1979
MADRID, SPAIN
Resident, Artistic Section / Casa de Velázquez
1981
MUNICH, GERMANY
BMW Galerie
1981
BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA
Galería Belarca
2004
NAZARETH ILLIT, ISRAEL
Berkovich Center
UPCOMING · 2026
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL
TEL AVIV MUSEUM OF ART
GENESIS
Simon Edery’s GENESIS series will be presented in a dedicated darkened gallery, allowing the luminous qualities of the works to emerge in a unique viewing experience.