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.
Don't Lose Your Spine.
Every surface drawn and painted by hand. No projectors, no scaled prints, no shortcuts.
Selected Works
Civic · Cultural · Commercial
Largest Mural by One Artist
Guinness World Record · 2016
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
A Place Transformed
Public Art · Negev
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)
Art of Independence
Permanent · Civic · 2021
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
When the Surface Fights Back
First in Israel · 2024
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
Hostage Square
Chicago · USA · 2024
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
Memory Has a Surface
Heritage · Memorial
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
Pop-Up Museum TLV
Festival · Curation · 2019
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
Guinness World Record · 1 March 2016
Largest spray-paint mural by one artist.
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.
Channel 12 News · 102FM Tel Aviv · Israeli-American Council · Museum of the Negev permanent collection.
Permanent collection: Museum of the Negev. Curated international events: Bat-Yam Beach Walk Graffiti (featured Bates), Dimona Street Art Festival.
Studio
Twenty years in. Still drawing every line by hand.
Avi Tal is a muralist and public art practitioner based in Be'er Sheva, Israel. He has worked as SPINE B7 since the early 2000s and under the studio name Shidrah for institutional and commercial commissions.
He has set a Guinness World Record, built permanent public works across Israel and the United States, produced heritage spaces for the Ethiopian-Israeli community, and taught the next generation of mural artists through Shidrah Studio workshops.
Each commission is taken direct. No agents, no intermediaries. The conversation starts with the client, and the wall gets painted by the same person who drew it.
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.