Bio.

A colleague once described Elyasaf Kowner as one who "seems to convert anything to art, design, documentary or other creative gold." [Shual]

Kowner's work has been shown worldwide, starting with his New York graffiti project E.K. Paris (1994). Since then his work has been exhibited in Art in General, New York (2002), the Tel Aviv museum (2003), World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam (2004), WRO Fesitval, Wroclaw, Poland (2005), Herzliya museum (2006), Israel museum (2007) and participated in international DVD releases such as Bizz Circuits play Intifada Offspring, Mille Plateaux (Germany, 2004), ffwd_mag, Invernomuto (Italy, 2005). Kowner also published two photography books, Car Portraits (2002) and Facing the Wishes (2007).

His graffiti work appeared in the weekly Village Voice (1994) and in the book Stencil Graffiti (Thames & Hudson, 2002). In 1999 he won the Sandberg award for After My Death project at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem.

Since 2000 Kowner has been teaching photography and graphic design in leading academic institutions in Israel. He has created a group of Jewish new year cards (Shana Tova) in flickr.com and in 2008 moved to Afiqua studio, a space for collaborative work and creative thought.