Michael Druks

Since the early 1980s, Druks has concentrated primarily on painting, making works he says are “details detached from a context” that require time and active participation from the viewer.

Druks's print Druksland: Physical and Social (1974), a conceptual map, has become an iconic image in both Israeli and International art, and has been featured in numerous exhibitions, books, magazines, exhibition catalogues and posters.

Druks grew up in Tel Aviv where he studied at the High Institute for Painting and became involved in avant-garde art and theatre circles. He organized group exhibitions based around concerns for the natural environment, including Plus Air Pollution at the Gordon Gallery in Tel Aviv, and Environment Paintings and Sculptures at the Billy Rose Sculpture Pavilion at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem in 1970. In the same year Druks received the Creative Artists Working Grant from the Sharett Foundation Fund, and had his environmental installations exhibited at the Israel Museum. In 1971, he participated in the 'Concepts and Information Show'.

By the late 1960s, Druks, having established himself as a leading young Israeli artist, decided to travel abroad. He arrived in Europe in the early 1970s, and after a period in Holland, settled in England where he became known for his conceptual work, with solo exhibitions in the 1970s at the Modern Art Oxford; The Whitechapel Gallery, London; De Appel, Amsterdam; The Centre Pompidou, Paris; Serpentine Gallery, London; documenta 6, Kassel; and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.

Michael Druks (Hebrew: מיכאל דרוקס; 1940 - 2022) was an Israeli-born British artist.

Michael Druks was born in Jerusalem on September 26, 1940. He has lived in London since 1972 and has dual Israeli-British citizenship.