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Tal R

1967– · Danish painter of Israeli birth

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Tal R (Tal Rosenzweig, born 1967) is a Danish artist based in Copenhagen. He was born in Israel and moved with his family to Denmark when he was one year old. His painting is described with the Hebrew term "kolboynik", meaning a jack-of-all-trades, a label that fits his wide-ranging practice that mixes different references and approaches.

He studied at Billedskolen in Copenhagen from 1986 to 1988 and at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1994 to 2000. His work has been shown in exhibitions such as Bicycle Thieves at Beret International Gallery in Chicago and House of Prince at the Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin. A LUX magazine article by Lisa Schiff named him among six living artists who were expected to gain more recognition in the future. He currently teaches at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

In 2019 two Faroese artists bought his painting Paris Chic, planning to cut up the canvas and use the pieces as decorative faces for a line of luxury wristwatches. Tal R took legal action at the Maritime and Commercial Court of Denmark to stop them, and succeeded.