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Sharon Poliakine talks about her work – Forever Faithfull II
Born in Haifa, 1964
Lives and works in Tel Aviv
1989
BA, Graphic Design, Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem
1987
Master Printer, Jerusalem Print Workshop
1992-1997
Printmaking Tutor, Art Department, Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem
1996
Artist Exchange Project with the Glasgow Print Workshop, Scotland
1998
Printmaking Tutor, Art Department, University of Lancaster, England
2002-2007
Art Professor, University of Haifa
Since 2007
Head of the Art Department, University of Haifa
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1992
Lohamei Hagetaot Gallery, Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot
The Jerusalem Artist’s House, Jerusalem
1993
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1994
Lohamei Hagetaot Gallery, Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot
1995
Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
1999
“Places of Silence”, Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv
2001
“To Love Anyway”, Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv
2002
“From Dawn to Sunrise – Etchings”, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem; Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv; Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2003
“Backyard”, Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv
2004-2005
“Expropriation”, Mishkan Le’Omanut- Museum of Art, Ein Harod
2005
“The Butterfly Effect”, Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv
2007
“In Person”, Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv
2008
“Time”, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
2009
“Nicole”, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
2011
“Ignorant Field”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2011
“Test Case”, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
2012
“Eight Measures of Drawing”, Ashdod Art Museum, Ashdod
2013
“Cast Out the Beam”, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
2014
Joint exhibition with Liliane Klapisch, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
Joint exhibition with Alima, Gordon Gallery 2, Tel Aviv
2016
“Tomorrow-Past”, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
2017-2018
“The Corner of Hanevi’im and Shivtei Israel”, Jerusalem Print Workshop
2018
"Trojan Horse", Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
2021
"Lasso", Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
2023
"The Faithful City", Gordon Gallery, Jerusalem
Selected Group Exhibitions
1990
“Print Exhibition”, The Artist House, Tel Aviv
1991
“The Print Trienalle”, France
1992
“New Acquisitions”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv
1993
“Print Exhibition”, Mashida Museum, Japan
“Feedback”, The Jerusalem Print Workshop
“Silent Vision”, Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York
1994
“Israeli and Palestinian Artists Exhibition”, France
“Private Collection”, The Jerusalem Print Workshop
“Gallery Collection”, Gimel Gallery, Jerusalem
“The Printer’s Imprint”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1995
“Saved Collection”, The Jerusalem Print Workshop
1997
“Homage to Bertha Urdang”, Artspace Gallery, Jerusalem
2000
“The Print and the Poem”, The Jerusalem Print Workshop
“Focus on Painting”, Haifa Museum of Art
2001
“Dyo-Eikon: Portrait Exhibition”, Jerusalem Print Workshop
“Dialogue”, The House of the Israeli Parliament, Jerusalem
“Artic 3”, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University
“The Ministry of Education Award Exhibition”, Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan
“Exhibition 28 – New Printings”, The Jerusalem Print Workshop
“Homage to Kupfermann”, Artspace Gallery, Jerusalem
“The Sylvia and Arturo Schwartz Contemporary Art Collection”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2003
“Metamorphosis – Works by Young Israeli Artists”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2004
“Shame”, The Digital Art Center, Holon
“Dispossession”, The Museum of Art, Ein Harod
“Homage to Hanoch Levin”, Haifa Museum of Art
2005
“Forms of Freedom: Young Israeli Artists”, traveling exhibition in Ukraine
2005-2006
“Orlando”, Jerusalem Print Workshop; curators: Sharon Poliakine & Osnat Rechter
2006
“Restraint”, exhibition in the series “Elections 2006”, Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv; curator: Sharon Poliakine
“Artist’s Books”, published by Gottesman and the Cabri Print Workshop, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
“Art and Brain”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2007
“Traces; The Third Biennial for Drawing in Israel”, The Artists House, Jerusalem
“On a Small Scale”, The Jerusalem Print Workshop
2009
“Oppurtune Support; Kupferman House Collection”, Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot
2010
“More Than One”, The Jerusalem Print Workshop
2011
“Group Exhibition from the Gallery Collection”, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
2012
“Parallel”, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
“After”, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
2013
“Summer Exhibition”, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
2014
“Chicago Triangle”, Haifa Mueum of Art
2015
“Summer Exhibition”, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
2017
“Ingathering” 10th Anniversary to The Rappaport Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
Prizes and Awards
1989
America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship
The Hermann Struck Prize for Graphic Arts, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
The Samuel Prize, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
1990
America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship
1992
Eugen Kolb Prize for Israeli Graphic Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts Prize, Tokyo
2000
The Prize for the Encouragement of Creativity, Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport
2001
Hadassah and Raphael Klachkin Prize, America–Israel Cultural Foundation
2003
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, USA
2007
The Prize for Visual Artists, Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport Prize
Oscar Hendler Prize, Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot
2010
The Rappaport Prize for an Established Israeli Painter