Ilana Raviv
Ilana Raviv-Oppenheim (born 1945) is a multidisciplinary artist. Her work spans a variety
of media: painting, drawing, etching, tapestry, and ceramic sculpture.
She was born in Tel Aviv to
Itzhak and Fanya Oppenheim. Moritz Daniel Oppenheim was her great-great-granduncle. He
was considered “the first Jewish painter” in Europe, very well known and
popular in his day. A large exhibition of his works was mounted at the Israel
Museum in Jerusalem. Ilana grew up in Israel, and her art was influenced partly
by such Israeli sights as the Negev, the Sinai, the Galilee, and greater Tel Aviv.
Ilana always knew, and made known, that art was her calling.
From 1980 to 1990, she lived with her family in the
art capital of the world, New York, in order to study, renew herself, and
broaden her artistic vision. During her stay, from 1980 to 1984 she studied at the
Art Students League of New York. Among her teachers were Roberto
Delamonica, Bruce Dorfman, and the American master Knox Martin, who
was active in New York and was her guide, mentor, and inspiration.