Ester Schneider earned her B.Des and her MFA at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.

Schneider works mainly in painting and installation. Her work is inspired by a multiplicity of cultural arenas, including Jewish mysticism, Persian miniatures, and Russian modernism. Schneider’s work both connects and sustains contradictions, dealing with identity and faith and how they interfere with the gaze, while creating a visual and structural realm.

Schneider’s work has been shown extensively in local art institutions and in various international venues, including the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Eretz Israel Museum, Museum on the Seam, The Jerusalem Biennial, The Israeli Drawing Biennial, The Tel Aviv University Art Gallery, The Tel Aviv Artists’ Studios, Basis Gallery in Herzliya, ZUMU – Mobile Museum, Hamidrasha Gallery, Inga Gallery, Gallery at The Artists’ Studios in Jerusalem, RawArt Gallery om Te; Avov. Triumph Gallery in Moscow, and Gallery of the American Jewish University in Los Angeles.

Schneider is the recipient of the Ministry of Culture Award in Visual Arts (2019), the Ilana Elovic-Bezalel Prize for Excellence in the Arts (2016), the Givon Prize (2012), and the Young Artist Prize by the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sport (2011), as well as excellence awards from the Advanced Studies Programs at Bezalel and Hamidrasha – Beit Berl College.

Her works are included in the collections of the Tel Aviv Museum and Ha’aretz, and in private collections in Israel and abroad.