Zvi Goldstein attended the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem and the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, Italy.  

Over the years Goldstein presented in numerous exhibitions, including in Biennales and major museums, in Israel and overseas. His artworks are included in the art collections of prominent local and overseas museums. In 2008, he won a lifetime achievement award in the field of visual arts on behalf of the Israeli Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport and in 2013 he won the EMET Arts & Culture award in the painting and sculpture category.    

Since 1978, Goldstein has been formulating an artistic conceptual model of objects and texts, divided into subgroups, aiming to redefine the relationship between western modernistic tradition and its extensions, outside of its historical boundaries, in marginal countries that are waking up and modifying the concept of modernism itself.  

The rhetoric of the utopian, of the other and of the marginal and the eccentric were always at the foundations of Goldstein’s work. In his more recent, intricate and vocal work, which includes glances into the past and into other, actual places, and with their future painted in fewer “avant garde” shades, Zvi Goldstein redefines his artistic-cultural-political position towards the postmodern western art world, based on economical-political-ideological transformations, such as the uniting globalization, leaving no room elsewhere. Against the backdrop of his soul searching, an established artist who was born in Eastern Europe, who absorbed modernism, who explored African countries and who lives in Jerusalem, Goldstein is trying to devise a new model of art outside of western culture. 

In 2004, on top of his object creations and his writing of theoretical texts, some of his written work was published, including the novel “On Paper”, a poetry book titled Room #205 and his comprehensive catalog Zvi Goldstein: The Limits of My Knowledge, 1969-2014.