Oren Loloi is an oil painter based in Tel Aviv, after having lived and worked in New York City and Milan. His work depicts figures in large-scale landscape settings — coastlines, geological formations, and open water — with an emphasis on scale, atmosphere, and the relationship between the human figure and its environment.
His practice centers on two bodies of work. The first is intimate figurative painting set in interior spaces. The second, and primary, body of work uses the seascape as its stage: solitary figures, seen from behind, positioned at the water’s edge against open sea and rock formations. The sea functions in these paintings as an absolute boundary — a surface beyond which nothing is visible. The figures face it directly, small against the scale of what surrounds them.
He studied painting at the Art Students League of New York. His work has been exhibited at Zemack Gallery (Tel Aviv, New York, and San Francisco), Fresh Paint Art Fair, The Space Art Gallery, Shabtay Art and Collection Gallery, and the Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery. He has received multiple Jackson’s Art Prize longlist selections, a Sol Tanne Merit Grant, and recognition for publication and licensing.
He is available to mentor dedicated painters at any level.
