Uri Blayer is an Israeli artist currently living in Hawaii. He was born in Ramat-Gan, Israel in 1971. He is a 1989 graduate of Telma-Yalin Art School, Givataim, Israel. Following art school he lived and painted in the Negev Desert, Israel for 6 years. From 1996 to 1999 he lived in Brooklyn, New York and studied under Professor Lennart Anderson at Brooklyn College and at the Art Student League N. Y. C.

Drawn to Hawaii by photographs of Maui's Haleakala Volcano terrain, as well as its reputation with the world's surfing community, Uri settled on the island of Maui in 1999. He currently resides on Kauai.

He has been represented by Village Galleries since shortly after his arrival to Hawaii. He is included in many private and corportate collections in Hawaii including Bank of Hawaii (Honolulu and Kauai), State Foundation on Culture and the Arts (Art in Public Places Program) and the Hawaii State Museum. Since moving to Hawaii, he has returned to New York and Israel for numerous group and solo shows and is included in private collections worldwide.

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