Avi was born in 1977 and grew up in Ma’alot Tarshiha. In 2004 he graduated with a Bachelor's Degree from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and since 2006 he has served as a lecturer at this academy. In 2005, he founded the Barbur Gallery in Jerusalem with some of his school friends.

His work is influenced and driven by memory and reactions between materials. For the most part he tries to reconcile physical materials with mental materials.

He is looking for chemical reactions in a substance that are intrinsically related to life events. Growing up in a war zone, the Western Galilee, in the early 80s, Avi is still occupied with sights that left a strong impression on him - a burning building, people escaping, and staying in shelters. These are met by events that he remembers from his youth, travelling around the world, and being a father in recent years.

Avi's works are mostly done on paper and its derivatives. He tries to correspond with traditions but also deviates from accepted modes of action and always tries to leave room for doubt. In the past he used to fry drawings, sometimes bury works and collect them after a while, and always bring together materials that refuse to meet. His work is greatly influenced by print making, but not traditionally, for example, some of his work is done by heating objects and leaving burns on various substrates. He finds interest in work where material and conceptual qualities become one unit.