Adi Nes (Hebrew: עדי נס; born 1966) is an Israeli photographer. He has had solo exhibitions at Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio^[1] and the Legion of Honor in San Francisco.^[2]

Adi Nes was born in Kiryat Gat. His parents are Jewish immigrants from Iran.^[3][4] He is openly gay.^[5] Nes studied photography at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem in 1989 to 1992.^{[citation needed]}

Nes' series "Soldiers" mixes masculinity and homoerotic sexuality, depicting Israeli soldiers in a fragile way.^[6]

Nes' "The Last Supper" recalls Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper, replacing the characters with young male Israeli soldiers.^[7] A print sold at auction in Sotheby's for $102,000 in 2005,^{[8][better source needed]} and another for $264,000 in 2007.^[9]

Nes' early work has been characterized as subverting the stereotype of the masculine Israeli man by using homoeroticism and sleeping, vulnerable figures.^[10] He regularly uses dark-skinned Israeli models.^[11] The models' poses often evoke the Baroque period. Nes has said that the inspiration for his photography is partially autobiographical:

My staged photographs are oversized and often recall well-known scenes from Art History and Western Civilization combined with personal experiences based on my life as a gay youth growing up in a small town on the periphery of Israeli society.

— Adi Nes^[12]

Nes lives and works in a small town at the north of Tel Aviv, he and his partner have four surrogate children.^[3] His work is currently sold through Jack Shainman Gallery in New York City and Praz-Delavallade in Paris and Los Angeles.^{[citation needed]} In January 2007, he premiered a new series echoing Biblical stories.^[13]

• Between Promise and Possibility: The Photographs of Adi Nes, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 2004^[2]
• Biblical Stories, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, 2008^[1]

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• 1993: Ministry of Education Council for Prize for Completion of Work, Ministry of Culture and Education
• 1999: The Minister of Education, Culture and Sport Prize, The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport
• 2000: Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation, The Israeli Art Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
• 2003: The Constantiner Photographer Award for an Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
• 2005: Chosen as an outstanding artist of the Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation.^{[citation needed]}
• 2013: Culture & Sport Minister's Prize for Artists in the Visual Arts^[16]

• Untitled, from series "Soldiers", 90 x 90 / 140 x 140 cm., 1995.
• Untitled, from series "Soldiers", 90 x 90 / 140 x 140 cm., 1996.
• Untitled, from series "Soldiers", 90 x 90 / 140 x 140 cm., 1998.
• Untitled (The Last Supper), from series "Soldiers", 90 x 148 / 185 x 235, 1999.
• Untitled, from series "Boys", 100 x 100 / 140 x 140 cm., 2000.
• Untitled, from series "Boys", 100 x 100 / 140 x 140 cm., 2000.
• Untitled (Narcissus), from series "Boys", 100 x 100 / 140 x 140 cm., 2000.
• Untitled, from series "Prisoners", 60 x 82 / 90 x 123 cm., 2003.
• Untitled (Abraham and Isaac), from series "Biblical Stories", 100 x 100 / 140 x 140 cm., 2004.
• Untitled (Joseph), from series "Biblical Stories", 100 x 100 / 140 x 140 cm., 2004.