Tamir Zadok (b. Holon, 1979) is an Israeli artist who works with video, photography, and installation. He studied the MFA program in cinema at Tel Aviv University and graduated with honors from Hamidrasha School of Fine Art, Beit Berl College in 2007.

Zadok often disguises his work within easily recognized forms of popular culture – in doing so he is able to keep it accessible and communicative. He choose genres well known to any Israeli; manipulations to visitors center videos, film-stills, tourist souvenirs, and archeological installations allow him to pose questions about narrative construction and Israeli identity and arrogance without alienating his audiences. Zadok’s well-known video work, “Gaza Canal,” uses the familiar format of a visitors center video and other conventions of documentary film in order to create a mockumentary about the digging of a canal between Israel and the Gaza Strip. The satiric film uses conventional forms to point at the absurdity of our political situation and ridicule the “easy,” far-fetched solutions to the conflict by offering an even more fantastical, and unethical, one.

Zadok has participated in many exhibitions in Israel and abroad, including MODEM, Hungary (2018), Augusta gallery, Helsinki (2017), Martin Grupious Bau, Berlin (2015), Weserburg Museum, Bremen, Germany (2013), European House of Photography, Paris (2012), Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea (2012), Haifa Museum of Art (2011), and Artisterium, Tiblisi, Georgia (2010). He exhibited solo at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2017. Zadok has won several awards and grants such as The Israel Museum Gerard Levi Photography Prize (2016), Artis Project Development Grant (2016), Cité Internationale des Art, Paris (2012), Israel Ministry of Culture Prize for Young Artists (2010), and was awarded an Artport residency for 2015-2016.