Yair Garbuz, was born in 1945 in Tel Aviv.Studies: With Rafi Lavie; Avni Institute, Tel Aviv.
Prizes: 1999 IDB Prize for an Israeli Artist, Israel Museum, Jerusalem; 2000 Minister of Science, Culture and Sport Prize. Exhibition: 1968 Bucharest Romania, "The Israel Painter". Director of Art Teachers' Training College, Kalmania. He now lives and works in Ramat Gan.