Yair Garbuz (Hebrew: יאיר גרבוז, born 29 September 1945) is an Israeli artist, writer, author, humorist and opinion journalist.

He is a recipient of the 2004 EMET Prize in painting, and was director of the HaMidrasha Art School at Beit Berl College for 12 years.

He has also taught at the Avni Institute, Tel-Hai Academic College, and the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem.

[3][4] In the 1970s Garbuz worked in a variety of media, from installations to artist's books containing political commentary and self-parody.

Yair Garbuz has been described as "adept in the poetics of loneliness, constantly lighting fires that signal from one mountaintop to the next an ironic wish to belong.