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Born in Jerusalem, 1932
Died in Tel Aviv, 2009
1957-1959
Studied at Avni School of Art, Tel Aviv
1959-1962
Studied at Saint Martin’s School of Art, London
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1968
Tel Aviv Museum
1971
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1976
“Mirror Sculptures”, Ok Harris Gallery, New York
1977
“Painted Projections”, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
1978
“Videoconstructions”, Installation, OK Harris Gallery, New York
“Videoconstructions”, Installation, I.C.C., Antwerp, Belgium
1979
“Video Color Bars”, Akron Art Institute, OH
1980
“Videosculpture”, Winter Olympics, Lake Placid, NY
“Videoconstructions”, Installation, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1981
“3 Video Works”, Art Museum, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
“Fall 1981”, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
“3d Imprint”, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
“3d Imprint”, Anthology Film Archives, New York City
1984
“Yellow Gate”, P.S. 1, Institute Of Art & Urban Resources, NY
“Airport Video”, International Arrivals Building, John F. Kennedy, New York
“Red Flags In The Snow”, Middlebury College, VT
1986
“Three Angles Of Coordination For Monitoring The Labyrinthian Space”, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
“Video Spiral”, North Carolina Museum Of Art, Raleigh, NC
“T.V. Stripes on Tree Stumps”, American Museum Of The Moving Image, Astoria, New York
1989
“The Picture’s Surface and Form Of Detachment”, Delta Gallery (Hubertus Wunschik), Dusseldorf, Germany
“Mobius Strip, The Picture’s Surface, And Form Of Detachment, Spaces”, Cleveland, OH
“Air Lines”, Eric Stark Gallery, New York City
“Mobius Strip”, Kijkhuis, The Hague, Holland
1990
“Sony Presents Buky Schwartz”, 1990, The Ramat Gan Museum
“Video Space For a Blue House”, Eastern Washington University, Spokane
1991
“Video Sunflowers”, M.U.H.K.A. Museum, Antwerpen, Belgium
“Tel Aviv-New York, Interim Title”, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
1992
“Venus Synchronicity”, Lutz Teutloff Gallery, Koln, Germany
1993
“Video Sculptures for the Sony Pavilion at Cebit”, Hanover, Germany
1995
“Facing Oneself”, Lutz Teutloff Gallery, Koln, Germany
1996
“A View From Above”, Video Installation, Harn Museum, Gainesville, FL
1997
“Foresthill ’97”, Umedalen Skulptur ’97, Umea, Sweden
1998
“In The Footsteps Of Yellow Triangle ’98”, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
1999
“Kunst Kunst Li; Video Installation, In 2 Parts, With 300 Artificial Roses”, Neuruppin, Germany
2000
“4 Interactive Installations”, Avni School Of Art Gallery
2002
“Question Mark Mirror Installation”, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
Selected Group Exhibitions
1966
“Venice Biannale”
1971
“Symposium Urbanum”, Nurenberg, West Germany
1974
“Beyond Drawing”, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1975
“Storm King Art Center”, New York
1976
“Painting And Sculpture Today”, Indianapolis Museum
“Group”, Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York
1977
“Forms in Focus”, Co-Op City, New York
“Sculpture Now”, Potsdam, NY
1979
“Yellow Triangle, Re-Visions”, Whitney Museum, New York
1980
“Biennale de la Critique”, Palais De Beaux Arts, Charleroi, France
“Beyond Surface”, ICC, Antwerp, Belgium
“White Flags Triangle”, Landscape Sculpture, Tel Hai
1981
“Carnegie International”, Art Museum, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
“In Real Time”, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, New York City
“Spring 1981”, Film/Video Installations, Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkill, NY
“Iz Bienal De Arte”, Medellin, Colombia
1983
“Videoconstructions Videotape”, Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil
“Yellow Diagonal”, Artpark, Lewiston, NY
1984
“Box 1984, Current Five” The Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
“A History Of Video Art”, The Museum Of Modern Art, New York
“T.V. On A Table”, Tel Aviv Museum
“T.V. Stripes 1985”, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Holland
1986
“Pink Roof, Engaging Objects: The Participatory Act of Mirrors, Mechanism and Shelters,” The Clocktower, New York
“Untitled 1986, Intericon 86,” Charlottenbourg, Copenhagen
“Through the Looking Glass, The Other Television: Video by Artists”, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN
1987
“Relay Stations”, Video Installation in Documenta 8, Kassel, West Germany
1988
“Forfera, New American Video Art: Expanded Forms,” And Exhibition with Nam June Paik and Bruce Nauman, Linz, Austria and Camerino, Italy;
curator: John Hanhardt, “Video See Saw, Trojan Horse, Video Art: Expanded Forms,” Whitney Museum At The Equitable Center, New York
1989
“Three Angles of Coordination for Monitoring the Labyrinthian Space 1985-1986”, Videosculpture Retrospective and Actual 1963-1969, Koln-Berlin
Zurich, Kolnischer Kunstverein, Koln, West Germany
“Three Points Of Observation, The Presence Of Absence: New Installations”, Independent Curators Incorporated, New York, Travelling Exhibition
1990
“Frieze 1990 (A Videosculpture)”, Paula Anglim Gallery, San Francisco
1993
“Sculpting The Spectator”, A Project For Construction In Process IV, Lodz, Poland
“Flying Marx, Monumental Propaganda”, Independent Curators Incorporated, New York
1994
“Along New Lines, A Drawing Exhibition”, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1995
“Intervention In The Museum Space”, Museum of Modern Art
“Video Seesaw”, First Biennale, Kuang Ju, South Korea
1998
“Yellow Triangle ’79, Israeli Art In The Seventies”, Tel Aviv Museum
“Yellow Triangle ’79”, Collection of the Whitney Museum at the San Jose Museum, California
1999
“Yellow Star Of David”, Mirror Installation, Ikd International Kunstforum, Drewen, Germany
2000
“Collection, Arturo & Silvia Schwarz”, Tel Aviv Museum
“Group Drawing Exhibition”, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
“Group 70’s-2000”, Nelly Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv
“Between Water & Sky”, 3rd Biennale of Installations, Haifa Museum of Art
2002
“Black Sun, The Boundaries of Sculpture”, The Open Museum, Tefen
2003
“Box # 1 (1968) Communication Interferences”, Haifa Museum of Art
Prizes and Awards
1961
House and Garden Prize, London
Sainsbury Award, London
1971
Nuremberg Urban Symposium Purchase Award
Dizengoff Prize, Tel Aviv Museum
Sainsbury Award, London
Deutscher Kritikerpreis, Berlin
1980
CAPS Fellowship
1983
NYSCA Video Art Award
1986
Mid Atlantic States Art Consortium Residency, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
1987
Guggenheim Fellowship
1988
Sculpture Grant, National Endowment for the Arts
1989
L’immagine Elettronica, Annual International Prize for Videosculpture, Ferrara, Italy
1990
Guggenheim Grant for Publication
1992
Pollock-Krasner Grant for Videosculpture, New York
1995
Combining Art with Architecture Prize, Tel Aviv Foundation
2002
Combining Art with Architecture Prize, Tel Aviv Foundation
2007
Dani Sandel Prize, Tel Aviv Museum