Jewish Art Salon is an international artists and scholars community that promotes understanding and appreciation of contemporary Jewish visual art and organizes and supports art exhibits and other events with Jewish themes. It is based in New York City and maintains a list of Jewish artists around the world, some with contact information. Yona Verwer is […]

Renny Pritikin is the curator of the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. Contact via Melanie Samay in museum communications.

Claudia Nahson is a curator at the Jewish Museum in New York City, where she specializes in Jewish illustrators. She has curated shows on Ezra Jack Keats, William Steig and Maurice Sendak. Contact via the museum press office.

Mason Klein is a critic, an art historian and a curator at the Jewish Museum in New York City, where he has curated shows on Modigliani and Man Ray. Klein has written about artists Joseph Beuys, Ross Bleckner, Marcel Duchamp, Leon Golub, Ray Johnson, Yves Klein, Nancy Spero, Michael Snow, and Joan Snyder. Contact via the museum’s […]

Norman L. Kleeblatt is the chief curator at the Jewish Museum in New York City. He has curated shows on Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Chaim Soutine. He is also an expert on 20th-century Jewish artists in New York. Contact via the museum’s press office.

Francesco Spagnolo is the curator of the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at the University of California, Berkeley. His specialties include music and digital media, but he has curated a number of visual exhibits at the Magnes, including one on botanical drawings and one on European Jewish posters.

Mark Podwal is an artist and illustrator whose contemporary, cartoonlike drawings often focus on Judaism, Jewish culture and the Jewish experience. His work is the subject of the book Reimagined: 45 Years of Jewish Art. He provided the art for the documentary House of Life: The Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague. Some of his work […]

Melissa Raphael is a professor of history, religion, philosophy and ethics at the University of Gloucestershire in Cheltenham, England. She is the author of Judaism and the Visual Image: A Jewish Theology of Art.