Elad Kopler (b. 1974) is an acclaimed Israeli painter known for large-scale, emotionally charged landscapes that hover between recognizable architecture and abstraction. He earned his BFA from Hamidrasha School of Art in 2004 and his MFA from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in 2006.

Kopler depicts unstable worlds of deserted towns, collapsing buildings, industrial structures, and imagined ruins. Expressive brushwork and intense color give these environments an alluring beauty, yet closer observation reveals fragmentation, abandonment, and an underlying sense of anxiety. By allowing architectural grids to dissolve into painterly gestures, Kopler explores both the breakdown of the physical world and the possibilities of painting itself. His works invite viewers to become future archaeologists, searching through their surfaces for traces of a civilization that may have disappeared.

Kopler received Israel’s Young Artist Award in 2007 and the prestigious Rappaport Prize for a Young Israeli Painter in 2012. The latter was followed by his solo exhibition Temperatures at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2013.