Shaul Shats (; born 1944) (variant names Shaul Shatz, Saul Shatz) is an Israeli painter, printmaker and illustrator, born in 1944 in Kibbutz Sarid, Israel. He studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (1965–66), the Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam (1967), and the Freie Akademie, The Hague (1967). Shats taught at the Bezalel Academy from 1978–82. He won the Israel Museum Prize for Illustration (1990), the Jerusalem Prize (1992), the Ben Yitzhak Prize for Illustration of Israeli Children's Books (1992), and the Ish-Shalom Prize.
Shats continues to live and work in Jerusalem.
Selected exhibitions 2007: Ella Gallery, Jerusalem 2005: Jerusalem Artists’ House, Jerusalem 2004: Our Landscape: Notes on Landscape Painting in Israel, University of Haifa Art Gallery, Haifa (online catalogue) 2003: Bineth Gallery, Tel-Aviv 1984: Cardo Gallery, Jerusalem 1971: Little Gallery, Jerusalem 1969: Engel Gallery, Jerusalem
Selected collections Israel Museum, Jerusalem Tel Aviv Museum of Art Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
References Ayal, Avishay, and Yoram Bar-Gal. Our Landscape: Notes on Landscape Painting in Israel [exhibition catalogue]. Haifa: University of Haifa Art Gallery, 2004. Shaul Shats: Paintings [exhibition catalogue]. Jerusalem: Cardo Gallery, 1984.
External links Israeli Art Centre (Israel Museum, Jerusalem - Shaul Shats)