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Biography
Larry Abramson talks about his work - Zoreach/Gorea
Studio Visit // August 2018
Born in South Africa, 1954
Immigrated to Israel, 1961
Lived in Jerusalem, 1961-2011
Lives and works in Tel Aviv, since 2011
Education
1973
Foundation Course, Chelsea School of Art, London
1975-1986
Printer and Curator of Exhibitions, Jerusalem Print Workshop
1984-2002
Taught at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
1992-1999
Chairman of the Fine Art Department, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
1996-1999
Head of Bezalel Program for Young Artists – Master of Fine Art, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
2000, 2003
Guest lecturer, San Francisco Art Institute
2000-2002
Professor of Art, Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, Ramat Gan
2013
Guest lecturer, Faculty of Design, HAW University, Hamburg
2013-2016
Head of the Multidisciplinary Art School, Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, Ramat Gan
2019
Guest lecturer, École supérieure des beaux-arts de Nîmes
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1975
The Little Gallery, Jerusalem
1977
Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv
1978
Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York
Russ Gallery, Tel Aviv
1979
Black Squares, Gimel Gallery, Jerusalem
1980
The Yellow Square, Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York
1984
Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
1986
Nevo, Aika Brown Gallery, Artists’ Studios, Jerusalem
1987
Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv
1989
Larry Abramson: Paintings, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Curator: Yigal Zalmona (catalogue)
1990
Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv
1993
Coincidences, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Curator: Ellen Ginton (catalogue)
1994
Coincidences, Galerie Hubertus Wunschik, Düsseldorf, Germany
Carobglyphics, Gallery of the Art Institute, Oranim College
1995
tsooba, Ha'Kibbutz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv; Curator: Tali Tamir (catalogue)
1996
Giornata, Noga Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
1998
ShalomShalom, Noga Art Gallery, Tel Aviv (catalogue)
1999
Impression, Refusalon Gallery, San Francisco
2001
Eventus Nocturnus, Haifa Museum of Art; Curator: Daniella Talmor (catalogue)
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
2003
1906, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
2004
The Rose of Jericho, The Jerusalem Print Workshop; Curator: Tamar Manor-Friedman (catalogue)
2005
The Pile, 2002-2004, Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabrück, Germany;Museum of Art, Ein Harod; Curators: Inge Jaehner, GaliaBar Or (catalogue)
Searching for the Ideal City, JudahL. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, California, USA;Curator: Alla Efimova
The Syrian-African Fault, NewGallery, Beit Gavriel, Kinnereth; Curator: Gideon Ofrat (catalogue)
2006
Mini Israel: 70 Models, 45 Artists, One Space – An Exhibition by Larry Abramson, Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Curator-in-charge: Amitai Mendelsohn (catalogue)
2007
Recent Paintings, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv (catalogue)
2010
Larry Abramson: Paintings 1975-2010, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Curator: Ellen Ginton (catalogue)
2011
Waxing/Waning, The Peres Center for Peace, Jaffa; Curator: Diana Dallal
2012
Spies, Gallery of the Art Institute, Oranim College
1967, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
2013
Symptoms, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
2014
Das Kleine Blumenbuch, Circle1 Gallery, Berlin
2016
Chovevei Zion, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
Spy Apter-Barrer Gallery, Ma’alot-Tarshicha; Curator: Noga Migdal (catalogue)
Botany, The Jerusalem Print Workshop, Curator: Irena Gordon (catalogue)
2018
VOLTA Art Fair, New York, with Gordon Gallery
2019
Brass Tacks, Buttons, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
2021
Go, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
2022
Signs, Gallery for Israeli Art, Kiryat Tivon; Curator: Michal Shaknai Jacobi (catalogue)
2023
Symptoms, Bursa Gallery, Multidisciplinary Art School, Shenkar, Ramat Gan; Curator: Gilad Efrat
2024
A Great Piece of Turf, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
ShalomShalom, Special exhibit at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Curator: Amitai Mendelsohn
Blue, Gordon Gallery, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
1975
Work on Paper, Gyda Gallery, Jerusalem
1977
Marginal Papers, Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv
1978
Graphic Works by 30 Israeli Artists, University Gallery, Tel Aviv University; Curator: Mordechai Omer (catalogue)
6th Biennale 0f Graphic Art, Florence, Italy (catalogue)
Printmaking in Israel Today, The Lobby Gallery, Illinois Bell, Chicago, USA; Curator: Yona Fischer (catalogue)
1979
News I, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Curator: Sara Breitberg-Semel
AbstracteGrafiek uit Israël, Hedendaagse Kunst, Utrecht, Holland; Curator: Wouter Kotte (catalogue)
The Kadishman Connection, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Curators: Stephanie Rachum, Nurit Shilo-Cohen (catalogue)
1980
Lines into Drawing, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Curator: Meira Perry-Lehmann
1981
A Turning Point, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Curator: Sara Breitberg-Semel (catalogue)
1982
Artists' Tribute to Bertha Urdang, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Curators: Judith Spitzer, Yigal Zalmona (catalogue)
1983
17th São Paulo Biennial of Art, Brazil; Curator: Reuven Berman (catalogue)
1984
Flesh and Blood, The Jerusalem Theater; Avraham Baron Art Gallery, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva; Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art; Curator: Haim Finkelstein (catalogue)
Two Years – Qualities Accumulated, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Curator: Sara Breitberg-Semel (catalogue)
1985
El Mithos Lelo El, Artists’ House, Jerusalem; Curator: Gideon Ofrat (catalogue)
1986
Territories of Color, Israeli Pavilion, 42nd Venice Biennial; Curator: Yona Fischer (catalogue)
Art – Israel, the 1980’s, Richard Green Gallery, New York (catalogue)
1988
Fresh Paint: The Younger Generation in Israeli Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Curator: Ellen Ginton (catalogue)
It’s Possible – 24 Israeli and Palestinian Artists Unite for Peace, The Great Hall Gallery, Cooper Union, New York; Curators: Kamal Boullata, Yona Fischer (catalogue)
Artists for Human Rights, Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv
1989
5 Artists, 5 Series, Omanut La'am Travelling Exhibition; Curator: Dalia Manor (catalogue)
Jerusalem Print Workshop: A Decade of Printmaking, Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona, USA; Curator: Andrew Rush (catalogue)
1990
The Art of Description, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1990, Ein Harod Museum of Art; Curators: Galia Bar Or, Gideon Ofrat
1991
Israeli Art Now, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Curator: Ellen Ginton (catalogue)
1992
Routes of Wandering: Nomadism, Voyages and Transitions in Contemporary Israeli Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Curator: Sarit Shapira (catalogue)
Einblicke-Ausblicke, JungeKunst aus Israel," Opera House, Leipzig, Germany; Curators: Noa Aviram-Paritzki, Hannah Kofler (catalogue)
Works on Paper from the 70’s, Artifact Gallery, Jaffa; Curator: Sergio Edelzstein
Dreams 1 and 2, Mary Fawzi Gallery, Jaffa; Curator: Eitan Hillel
New Voices, The Barbara Scott Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida (catalogue)
1993
Subtropical: Between Figuration and Abstraction, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Curator: Ellen Ginton
Locus: Contemporary Art from Israel, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Curator: Shlomit Shakked (catalogue)
Acquisitions 1991-1993, Museum of Modern Art, Haifa; Curator: Meir Ahronson (catalogue)
1994
Separate Worlds, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Curator: Itamar Levy
The Printer’s Imprint: Twenty Years of the Jerusalem Print Workshop, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Curators: Meira Perry-Lehmann, Arik Kilemnik (catalogue)
Grosse Kunst Ausstellung, Düsseldorf, Germany (catalogue)
1995
Preview from the Rita and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Israeli Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Curators: Yigal Zalmona, Shlomit Steinberg (catalogue)
1996
Regions of Memory, The Jerusalem Print Workshop; Curator: Shlomit Steinberg (catalogue)
1997
Sharing Jerusalem – Two Capitals for Two States, Al-Wasiti Art Center, Jerusalem (catalogue)
The Ingenious Machine of Nature: Four Centuries of Art and Anatomy," The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Curators-in-charge: Meira Perry-Lehmann, Ruth Apter-Gabriel
1998
To the East – Orientalism in the Arts in Israel, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Curators: Yigal Zalmona, Tamar Manor-Friedman (catalogue)
Kol Anot – Biblical Motives in Israeli Art, 1970-1998, The Artists’ House, Tel Aviv; Curator: Tali Tamir (catalogue)
Stains, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Curator: Sarit Shapira
Reflections of Monet, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Curator: Barbara Shapiro
In the Name of the Land, in the Name of the Lord: Art and Realities in Jerusalem," The Artists' House, Jerusalem; Curator: Ilan Wizgan (catalogue)
1999
Tales of the Sands – Contemporary Israeli Art, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Curators: Graeme Murray, Sarit Shapira (catalogue)
Common Ground: Contemporary Landscapes from Israel and Ohio," Riffe Gallery, Columbus; Weston Gallery, Cincinnati; The Artists' House, Jerusalem; Curators: Nella Cassouto, David T. Johnson (catalogue)
Artfocus, Teddy Kollek Stadium, Jerusalem
4 Kunstler aus Jerusalem, P.C.C. Kunstraum, Weimar, Germany; Curator: Rudolf Grass
2000
1:1, Refusalon Gallery, San Francisco; Curator: Shmulik Krampf
Sun, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Curator: Ellen Ginton
Contemporary Landscape from Israel, Trondhjems Kunstforening, Trondheim, Norway; Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Norway
2001
Love at First Sight – The Vera, Silvia, and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Israeli Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Curator: Amitai Mendelsohn (catalogue)
A Common Thread – Artists Pay Tribute to Moshe Kupferman, Artspace Gallery, Jerusalem; Curator: Linda Zisquit
2002
Imagine – Artists for Co-existence, Umm el-Fahem Gallery
35 Israeli and Palestinian Artists against the Occupation and for a Common Tomorrow, Hagar Gallery, Jaffa; The Artists House, Jerusalem;Al-Wasiti Art Center, Jerusalem; BenGurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva
The Return to Zion: Beyond the Principle of Place, Time for Art Gallery, Tel Aviv; Curator: Gideon Ofrat (catalogue)
2003
Ruins Revisited – The Image of the Ruin in Israel 1803-2003, Time for Art Gallery, Tel Aviv; Curator: Gideon Ofrat (catalogue)
First Flowers of Israeli Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Curator: Tamar Manor-Friedman
Marked Landscapes: 'Landscape-Place' in Contemporary Israeli Art, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva; Curators: Haim Maor and students (catalogue)
2004
A Point of View, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Curator: Ellen Ginton
Prints and Artists' Books from the Jerusalem Print Workshop," Widener Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Espacios Comunes, Fundación Tres Culturas del Mediterráneo, Pabellón Hassan II, Sevilla, Spain
2005
The New Hebrews – A Century of Art in Israel, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Curators: Doreet LeVitte Harten, YigalZalmona (catalogue)
The 80's in Israeli Art, Gallery of the Art Institute, Oranim
Etched Voices: Contemporary Artists and the Holocaust, Yad Vashem Museum, Jerusalem; Curator: Yehudit Shendar
Three Cities against the Wall: New York, Ramallah, Tel Aviv, The Artists' House, Tel Aviv (catalogue)
Tribute to the Alcove I, The Open University, Ra'anana; Curator: Alik Mishori (brochure)
November 4, 1995: Murder in Retrospective, Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv; Curators: Dana Arieli-Horowitz, Dalia Manor
2006
Etchings from the Brain, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Curator: Meira Perry-Lehmann
The Dirty Dozen, Ironi Ramla Gallery for Contemporary Art, Ramla
Pathology Report: Representations of the Damaged Body in Contemporary Israeli Art, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva; Curators: Haim Maor and students (catalogue)
Offering Reconciliation, Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan; Curators: Orna Tamir-Schestowitz, Daphna Zmora (catalogue)
2007
On a Small Scale, The Jerusalem Print Workshop; Curator: Arik Kilemnik (catalogue)
Connected, Altes Museum, Mönchengladbach, Germany; Curator: Hubertus Wunschik
Visiting Kupferman, The Kupferman Collection, Kibbutz Lochamei HaGetaot; Curator: Yona Fischer
Desert Generation – Israeli and Palestinian Artists against the Occupation, Artists’ House, Jerusalem, Kibbutz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Meneer deWit Gallery, Amsterdam; Holden Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan Gallery
2008
Checkpost: the 80’s in Israeli Art, Haifa Museum of Art, Curator: Ilana Tennenbaum (catalogue)
The Hidden Trace: Jewish Paths through Modernity, Felix-Nussbaum-Haus, Osnabrueck; Curator: Inge Jaehner (catalogue)
Art of the State: Contemporary Photography and Video Art from Israel, Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam; CCDe Werft - De Halle, Geel; De Garage, Cultuurcentrum, Mechelen; Curator: Edwardvan Voolen
Near and Apparent: Connections and Contexts from the Benno Kalev Collection, The Open Museum, Tefen Industrial Park; Curator: Benno Kalev (catalogue)
*D.I.Y. The Michael Adler Collection and Israeli Post-Minimalism in the Seventies and in Contemporary Art”, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art; Curator: Adi Englman (catalogue)
2009
Landsc®ape, Petach Tikva Museum; Curator: Sigal Barkai
Nature Nation, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem; Curator: Raphie Etgar (catalogue)
Special Edition: The Newspaper as Raw Material in Israeli Art, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, curators: Haim Maor and students (catalogue)
Family Traces, Israel Museum; Curator: Tamar Manor-Friedman
2010
More than One, Jerusalem Print Workshop; Curators: Arik Kilemnik and Irena Gordon
Nachbarn, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin; Curator: Reviva Regev (catalogue)
Traces IV – Caught in the Thicket, Fourth Biennale for Drawing, Jerusalem Artists House; Curator: Tamar Manor-Friedman (catalogue)
2011
On the Cloud’s Edge, ALMA Home for Hebrew Culture, Tel Aviv; curator: Elad Armon
The Museum Presents Itself: Israeli Art from the Museum Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, curator: Ellen Ginton
2012
After, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv, curator: Shlomit Breuer
City of God, Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow
The Absent Body: Body Imagery between Judaism and Christianity in the Work of Eight Israeli Artists, Beit Hatfutsot, Tel Aviv, curator: Irena Gordon (caalogue)
Vayaanunu, Artists’ House, Tel Aviv, curator: Ishai Menuchin (catalogue)
2013
Summer Exhibition, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
Magia Naturalis: Israeli Artists Study Nature, P8 Gallery, Tel Aviv; Curator: Jochai Rosen
Print Time, The Open Museum, Tefen Industrial Park; Curators: Ruthi Ofek, Irena Gordon (catalogue)
2014
Under Erasure, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Curator: Irith Hadar (catalogue)
2015
Summer Exhibition, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
Flora Palestina, Musrara – The New Gallery, Jerusalem; Curator: Avi Sabag
Unprotected Zone, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem; Curator: Raphie Etgar (catalogue)
2016
Guides: Field Guides in the Mirror of Contemporary Israeli Art, Ben Gurion University of the Negev; Curator: Haim Maor (catalogue)
Take Painting, Petach Tikvah Museum of Art; Artist-curator: Larry Abramson (catalogue)
2017
1967 Turns 50: Wartime Art, Ein Harod Museum; curator: Dana Arieli
2018
The Map, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv; curator: Batya Donner (catalogue)
Stairway to Heaven, Morel Derfler Gallery,Jerusalem; Curator: Orit Ishay
Security Measures, Sklar Levy Gallery, Modi’in; Curator: Shirley Wegner
2019
The Case of Hiroshima, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem; curator: Raphie Etgar (catalogue)
Seeds of the Land, Israel Museum – Ticho House, Jerusalem; curator: Tami Manor-Friedman (catalogue)
The Mount: A Photographic Journey to the Temple Mount 1839-2019, Tower of David – Museum of the City of Jerusalem; curator: Dr. Shimon Lev (catalogue)
Even the Trees Bleed, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem; curator: Raphie Etgar (catalogue)
Cave, Under 1000 Gallery, Tel Aviv; curators: Limor Tamir and Yoad Bar-Noy
Memory is Home, Apter-Barrer Gallery, Ma’alot-Tarshicha; Curator: Noga Migdal
Chronicles – Haaretz Newspaper in Israeli Art, Minus 1 Gallery, Tel Aviv; Curator: Efrat Livny (catalogue)
2020
Between Syllables there is Empty Space, New Gallery, Musrara, Jerusalem; Curator: Irena Gordon
2021
Haifa Way: 70th Anniversary of Haifa Museumof Art," Haifa Museum of Art; Curator: Kobi Ben-Meir
Reflections: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa, British Museum, London; Curator: Venetia Porter (catalogue)
On Point," Art Gallery, Seminar HaKibbutzim, Tel Aviv; Curator: Tamar Berger (catalogue)
Black, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Curator: Naama Bar-Or
Art on the Road, Flying Cargo; Curator: Ronit Reik
2022
Into the Night, Minus 1 Gallery, Tel Aviv; Curator: Efrat Livny (catalogue)
2023
Black Noise – 20 Years to the Death of Moshe Kupferman, Kupferman Collection, Lohamei HaGeta'ot Kibbutz; Curator: Irit Carmon Popper
Peace, Jewish Museum Vienna; Curators: Tom Juncker and Adina Seeger (catalogue)
Will Their Voice Be Heard, The Hostage and Families Forum, Tel Aviv; Curator: Natali Ben Ari
2024
HaOman 26: Forty Years of Creation at the Artists' Studios, Artists' Studios, Jerusalem; Curator: Hili Whartman Moyal
War and Peace: 50 Years of the Jerusalem Print Workshop," Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Curator: Emanuela Calo
50 Years of Printmaking, Jerusalem Print Workshop; Curators: Arik Kilemnik and Merav Hamburger
Street of the Prophets – 50 Years of the Jerusalem Print Workshop and 40 Years of Ticho House, Ticho House – Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Curators: Timna Seligman and Ronit Sorek (catalogue)
Selected Prizes and Awards
1979
Young Artist Award, Culture and Art Council
Beatrice S. Kolliner Prizefor a Young Israeli Artist, The Israel Museum
1988
Hadassa and Raphael Klachkin Prize,America-Israel Cultural Foundation
1991
Jacques and Eugenie O'Hana Prize for a Young Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1993
Project Award, Ministry of Science and Arts
1998
Minister of Education and Culture Award
2007
Mendel and Eva Pundik Prize for Israeli Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2012
Year of Art Award, Shenkar College of Engineering,Design and Art
2023
Sandberg Prize, The Israel Museum
Books
2018
The Painter is a Spy, ed: Gannit Ankori, Hakibbutz HaMeuchad Publishing House, Tel Aviv (Hebrew)