BIOGRAPHY
OUDI (pronunced Ooo-Dee), Born to an Italian, Israeli parentage, came to the United States in 1972. His talent for innovative and exciting photography soon earned him a national and international reputation inthe world of advertising and fine art photography. So unusual and imaginative was his work that he was the subject of a nationally syndicated television show,"The World of Photography" one of his images is in the permanent collection of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House.
EDUCATION
1974 - New York Institute of Photography, NYC
1977 - School of Visual Arts, NYC
1981 - New York University,(film), NYC
1990 - The Art Students' League (Drawing the Figure),NYC
1992 - Instituto de Bellas Artes, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
1995 - Academia de San Carlos (painting), Mexico City, Mexico
He taught oil painting in 1996 at the University of South Florida.
He has also recently completed two murals commissioned at the Brandon YMCA.
Oudi currently makes his home in New York, NY.
MUSEUMS AND MAGAZINES
In addition to being invited to exhibit at the Fine Arts Museum of Long Island in Hempstead, N.Y. and at the Newark Museum in Newark, N.J., over twenty of Oudi's paintings are included in the corporate collection of MicroEdge, Inc., New York City, and he has been the subject of full page articles in Manhattan Arts Magazine, ArtSpeak Magazine and several foreign language publications.
GALLERIES AND SHOWS
Grace Harkin Gallery, NYC
Gallery Art 54, NYC
Deal Community Center, Deal, NJ
Focus on Art, West Orange, NJ
Crescent Galleries, Long Island, NY
Broadway Gallery, Passaic, NJ
Rosequist Galleries, Tucson, AZ
The Darvish Collection of Fine Art,Naples, FL
Eaton Gallery, Memphis, TNThalheimers Gallery,Naples, FL
Bay Ridge Festival of the Arts, Brooklyn, NY
Santa Fe Style Gallery, Madison, WI
Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
Botanical Gardens, Queens, NY
The "A" Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
Hand Artes Gallery, Truchas, NM
Galeria Alberto Misrachi, Mexico City, Mexico
Dyansen Gallery, NYC
UNAM Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
Galerie des Hamptons, Westhampton, NY
Signature Galleries,San Diego, CA
JCC of Greater Palm Beaches, West Palm Beach, FL
Chasen Galleries, Sarasota, FL
18 thirteen Gallery, Tampa, FL
T.E.C.O., Tampa, FL
Jean-Cocteau, Santa Fe, NM
Hotel Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Tanya Tish Gallery, Houston, TX
Judy Speed Way Gallery, Houston, TX
Sippora Gallery, Houston, TX
Lolita, New York, NY – Solo (2005)
Barebrush, NY – Group (2006-2007)
Monkdogs Gallery, NYC - Group (2007)
Gallery 35, NYC - Group (2010)
Da Gallery, NYC - Group (2010)