Moshe Dotan Yerushalmi is an Israeli painter and mixed-media artist whose work brings sacred imagery and portraiture into dialogue with questions of religion, politics, identity, and national belonging. A graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Yerushalmi creates psychologically charged figures and symbolic scenes that examine how personal identity is shaped by collective history and cultural traditions.

His paintings often transform recognizable images into ambiguous, unsettling compositions. Through expressive surfaces, layered materials, and visual tension, familiar symbols of faith, authority, and memory become open to new interpretations. Works such as Heads Off and Boogie Man demonstrate his ability to balance emotional intensity with a provocative, questioning perspective.

Yerushalmi presented an exhibition of paintings at Tzavta Gallery in Tel Aviv in 2003. His work was subsequently included in Bezalel’s graduate exhibition in Jerusalem in 2009 and in Stomach Ache at the ST-ART Residence in Jaffa in 2011.