Ilya is a multidisciplinary artist based between Jerusalem and Prague. He was born in Moscow and moved to Israel in 1999. In 2023 he got a MGA degree in the Illustration and Graphics studio of UMPRUM(Prague) after receiving BCA in Visual Communication at Bezalel Academy, Israel. Mainly focuses on topics of time, identity and mystification, through mediums of illustration, animation, cinema, video art, puppet theater and their fusion.
“Mezimesti”(Between city), student film, 2023. “Kupe”(Coupe), The forgotten suitcase episode, student film, 2022. “King Lear”, student film, 2022.
“Handwritten”, web series about Jewish medieval manuscripts, animation, 2023. King Khat , feature film by Uri Marantz, background artist, 2023. “The training”, student film by Hava Rokhlin, art direction, 2020.