Michael Halak was born in Fassuta village and currently lives and works in Haifa. During university, Halak won a scholarship to attend the Florence Academy of Art, Italy, where he refined his realist style. He completed his MFA at Haifa University. 

Halak’s works tread between hyperrealism and conceptualism. His works depict landscapes and emotion: impermanence, hybridity, entrapment, or categorization. Halak manipulates perception to convey his lived experience– a life in transition in a place that is not really his. 

Halak has exhibited across the Middle East, Europe, and the United States and his work can be found globally and locally in public and private collections. He has been honored by the Ministry of Culture and Sports and been awarded the Rappaport Prize.