Born in Kiryat Gat in 1966, lives and works in Tel Aviv.

Adi Nes has a powerful ability to tell a story by staging images imbued with emotion and a cinematic quality. When they first appeared, the male models that his work offers constituted a groundbreaking innovation in the representation of gender in art. In his photographs, which touch on the experience of Israeli masculinity, Nes addresses formative historical myths in the Zionist story. The masculine portraits stress values of passion and heroism attributed to them in the Israeli consciousness. Nes reenacts compositions of artistic masterpieces as scenes set against the backdrop of distinct Israeli reality that interweaves the present and collective memory.