Avi Tal
World-record scale, made by hand. Architectural murals for civic, cultural, and commercial commissions — across the United States and worldwide.
One artist. One stadium. Almost a year of work in the desert — the first three months spent preparing and cleaning the wall through heatwaves past 40°C. No projector. No stencil. No assistance. The previous record stood at roughly 600 m². This one nearly quadrupled it.
Avi Tal works as Spine B7, through Shidrah Studio — the studio behind every commission, large-scale production, and installation.
The same scale that set a Guinness World Record, brought to walls that need to matter. A limited number of commissions each year, delivered direct — no agency between client and concept.
Founder — Shidrah Studio
The studio behind the work: mural commissions, large-scale production, and installation. Hand. Scale. Meaning.
The exterior walls of a public stadium, painted by one person in desert heat — no team, no shared credit. Guinness World Records confirmed it: proof that the scale most studios subcontract, this one delivers by hand.
Dimona, Israel · 21,947 sq ft (2,038.96 m²) · aerosol on concrete
An industrial complex in the Negev turned into the largest public art installation in Israel. Scale served the place — not the other way around.
Neot Hovav · ~2,500 m² (26,900 sq ft)
A 184 ft permanent wall in Be'er Sheva's historic center, facing the regional art museum. Ten of history's masterworks, reimagined at architectural scale.
Be'er Sheva Old City · 2021 · with the municipality
A Skyvan aircraft has no flat planes, no right angles. Every surface hand-painted with spray cans — the first aircraft painted this way in Israel.
Skyvan · 2024 · aerosol on aluminium
Invited by the Israeli-American Council to a landmark public installation during the 2024 Democratic National Convention — a commission that had to carry meaning, not just scale.
Chicago, USA · public installation · 2024
Over ten memorial and heritage spaces built with the communities they belong to — history pressed into material so it cannot be erased.
Ethiopian-Israeli community · since 2018
A four-story building façade, covered in a single distinctive work for the Tel Aviv pop-up museum — temporary by design, unforgettable by intent.
Tel Aviv · 2019 · four-story façade
Permanent collection: Museum of the Negev. Curated international events: Bat-Yam Beach Walk Graffiti (featured Bates), Dimona Street Art Festival.
Avi Tal is an Israeli artist who paints murals under the name Spine B7, through his Shidrah Studio. He was born in Be'er Sheva in 1986 to parents who left the Soviet Union in 1974 with almost nothing, and he grew up between his father's engineering precision and his mother's drawing hand.
He picked up spray cans in 2002. An arrest for painting the walls of the southern district's main courthouse ended in 250 hours of community service — which he talked a high school principal into letting him spend painting the school instead of repairing chairs. That was the first wall handed to him on purpose, and the practice started there.
In 2016 he painted the exterior of Dimona's municipal stadium alone, stopping more than twenty times to take paying work so he could keep going. Guinness World Records confirmed it as the largest spray-paint mural ever made by a single artist — 2,038.96 m², freehand, no projectors.
Since then: 2,500 m² of industrial landscape at Neot Hovav, a 56-metre wall of ten master artists facing the Negev Museum of Art, the first aircraft in Israel hand-painted with spray cans, more than ten heritage and memorial spaces for the Ethiopian Jewish community, and a 2024 commission with the Israeli-American Council in Chicago.
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Queen of Sheba
Frida Kahlo — architectural tribute
Station — industrial scale
Jellyfish — nature at architectural scale
Hadera Park — public commission
Beer Station — commercial interior
Dimona detail — Guinness World Record
Eilat — southern Israel
O.S. — outdoor commission
Pop-Up Museum TLV — detail
Skyvan — detail, 2024
Skyvan — full view, 2024
Worldwide. Avi Tal works from studios in Israel and Brighton, Colorado, USA, and travels for large-scale commissions.
From a single feature wall to architectural facades over 2,000 m² — the scale that set the Guinness World Record — always hand-painted, with no projectors or printed scaling.
Concrete, masonry, metal and complex curved surfaces, painted by hand with aerosol, rollers and brushes.
Send the details through the form below, or email contact@shidrahstudio.com. Every inquiry reaches Avi directly — typical reply within 48 hours.
SPINE B7 takes a limited number of commissions each year. Every conversation starts the same way: what the wall needs to say, what scale actually means for the space, and what it takes to deliver it by hand.
Reach out directly — a response typically arrives within 48 hours.
