Biography

Yair Garbuz

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • 1967 Massada Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1968 Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1970 Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1972 Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1974 “Yair Garbuz: Paintings, Drawing”, The Tel Aviv Museum
  • 1975 “Didactic Art: New Works”, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1977 “New Works”, Sara Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem
  • “Selected Works on Paper”, Debel Gallery, Jerusalem
  • 1978 “Hebrew Family Manuscripts”, Hamidrasha School of Art, Ramat Hasharon; Gordon Gallery,Tel Aviv
  • 1979 “If Not a Giant, Then at Least in His Garden”, Hakibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1980 “Early Works”, Tzavta Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • “If Not a Giant, Then at Least in His Garden”, reconstructed exhibition Dizengoff Center, Tel Aviv
  • “The Evenings (Arabs) Pass By Quietly”, Shenar Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1981 “Exhibition Toward the Publication of the Book Ready Story Art”
  • Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • “They Shut Down the Youth Centers and Went to Make War”, Sara Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem
  • 1986 “Yair Garbuz Presents a Jew, Frenchman and Arab: New Works”, The Tel Aviv Museum
  • 1988 “Paris – Tiberias”, Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1989 The Gallery in Kibbutz Beeri
  • 1990 “Yair Garbuz: Paintings”, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan
  • 1991 Beit Uri and Rami Nehushtan Museum, Kibbutz Ashdot Yaacov Meuchad
  • “New Works”, The Gallery in Kibbutz Urim
  • 1993 “New Paintings”, The Open Museum, Industrial Park, Tefen
  • “Buckets Shed Light on Streams and Aching Hands Change Their Mind” Givon Art Gallery,Tel Aviv
  • Reconstruction of two exhibitions: “If Not a Giant, Then at Least in His Garden” and “Didactic Art”, Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • “In the Forest”, The Study Gallery of the Art Department, University of Haifa
  • 1995 “Yair Garbuz”, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1996 “Léger, Gauguin, Jews, and Scraps”, The Municipal Gallery, Kfar Saba
  • 1998 “Works on Paper”, The Other Gallery, Talpiot College of Education, Tel Aviv
  • “From the Series: Sad as Songs”, The Municipal Gallery, Rehovot
  • 2000 “Laugh Guernica! Laugh!: Erich Kästner and the Third World”, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • “Yair Garbuz / Yehiel Krize – Two-Person Exhibition”, The Art Institute Gallery, Oranim Academic College
  • “It Said: Danger of Illustration, and Should Have Read: Horror”, The Yavneh Art Workshop
  • 2001 “Europe Will Not Teach Us…”, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • “Youth and Fire”, Florescent Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 2003 “Carrying the Dead on Our Shoulders: East-European Elements in Yair Garbuz’s Work” The Artists House, Tel Aviv
  • 2004 “From Afar You Shall See: Selected Paintings”, Forty Years of Work, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 2005 “Restoration” and “What Does the Painter Care”, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • “Garbuz and Dorchin, The Joint Exhibition”, The Art Gallery, University of Haifa (cat.)
  • “Yair Garbuz – Presents Restoration”, Beit Gabriel on the see of Galilee (Cat.)
  • 2006 “A Life of Rattle”, the Open Museum, Industrial Park, Tefen and Omer
  • 2008 “I Wrote a New Painting”, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 2010 “Before and After Ready Meidale”, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 2011 “Selected Works from the Gallery Collection” on the occasion of launching the book
  • “Yair Garbuz: Ready Meidale”, Published by Hamidrasha
  • 2012 “Small Works”, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • “I Wish I Had a Better Solution”, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan
  • 2015 “Best not to be Colored”, Art Gallery- Memorial Center, Kiryat Tivon
  • 2016 “I Am Painters”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv (cat.)
  • 2018 “Paintings in Their Own Words”, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • Selected Group Exhibitions
  • 1967 Hakibbutz Layam Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • “10+ Group: Nude”, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1968 “The Autumn Salon”, The Tel Aviv Museum
  • “10+ Group: For and Against”, Gallery 220, Tel Aviv
  • 1969 “The Autumn Salon”, The Tel Aviv Museum
  • “10+ Group: Circle”, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1970 “10+ Group: 10+ on Venus”, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1973 “Twelve Original Prints by Israeli Artists”, Mabat Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1976 “Four Artists: Deganit Berest, Tamar Getter, Yair Garbuz, Raffi Lavie”
  • Sara Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem
  • “Yair Garbuz – Henry Shelesnyak”, The Museum of Art, Ramat Gan
  • “Script in Plastic Art”, Artists House, Tel Aviv
  • “The Letter in Art”, traveling exhibition, Omanut La’am
  • 1978  “Artist and Society in Israeli Art 1948-1978”, The Tel Aviv Museum
  • 1979 “New Works”, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • “New Works”, Sara Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem
  • 1980 “Exhibition of Jewish and Arab Painters for Peace, Equality and Understanding”, Nazareth
  • “Borders”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • 1981 “The Camera as a Brush”, traveling exhibition, Omanut La’am
  • “Israeli Prints from Burston Graphic Center”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • 1982 “A Tribute to Henry Shelesnyak”, Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • “Tel Aviv Artists in Frankfurt”, the Painters and Sculptors Association
  • “An Open Response to the War: Gallery Artists and Guests”, Radius Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1983 “The First Triennial of Israeli Graphic Art”, Haifa Museum of Art
  • “The Biennial of Graphic Art”, Ljublijana, Yugoslavia
  • “Israeli Prints”, The Museum of Fine Art, Chile
  • 1984 “The C. Mayorkas Collection”, The Gallery in Kibbutz Eilon; The Gallery in Kibbutz Cabri; The Gallery in Kibbutz Lohamei Haghetaot; Bat Yam Museum of Art
  • “Art on Art”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • “Two Years, 1983-1984: Israeli Art – Qualities Accumulated”, The Tel Aviv Museum
  • 1985 “Palestinian and Israeli Artists: Against the Occupation and For Freedom of Speech”, Tel Aviv, Nazareth and Jerusalem
  • “Recent Acquisitions 1982-1985”, Haifa Museum of Modern Art
  • “Milestones in Israeli Art”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • 1986 “The Want of Matter: A Quality in Israeli Art”, The Tel Aviv Museum
  • 1987 “Art and Language”, The Yavneh Art Workshop
  • “Seven Artists from Israel”, Galerie Palette, Zurich, Switzerland
  • “Artist-Format, Format-Artist: Israeli Art in Big Format”, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan
  • 1988 “Modern Drawing”, Haifa Museum of Modern Art
  • “Still Life and Breathing”, traveling exhibition, Omanut La’am
  • “Homage to the Family Album”, The Gallery of the Photography Department, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
  • “A People Builds Its Land: Israeli History as Reflected in Art”, Herzliya Museum
  • 1989 “Garbuz / Zinovich”, The Gallery in Kibbutz Eilon
  • “Political Art in Israel”, The Jewish Museum, New York
  • 1967 “The Americanization of Israeli Art”, Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1990 “Health and Long Life: Humor in Israeli Art”, traveling exhibition, Omanut La’am
  • “Political Signs, 1967-82”, Ami Steinitz Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
  • “Drawing: Beyond”, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • “Ten Years of Acquisitions”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • 1991 “Israeli Art Now: An Extensive Presentation”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • “Text-Image”, Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod; The Municipal Gallery, Rehovot; The Municipal Gallery, Kfar Saba
  • 1992 “The Artist’s Choice: An Exhibition of Bad Works”, The Artists Studios, Tel Aviv “Concept”, Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1993 “Seamline: Political Art”, The Corine Maman Ashdod Museum; The Art Gallery, University of Haifa; Yad Labanim Museum, Petach Tikva
  • “Eye Contact” (with Yaacov Dorchin and Raffi Lavie), Artists Studios, Tel Aviv
  • “Paintings from the Givon Art Gallery Collection”, Galerie Asperger, Strasbourg
  • “My Heart is in the East”, Artists Studios – Pyramid Gallery, Haifa
  • 1994 “Giantdwarf”, The Municipal Gallery, Rehovot
  • “The Raffi Lavie Collection”, Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • “Who Can Tell the Mighty Acts of Israel”, Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1995 “4/4: Four Artists, New Paintings”, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1996 “Henry Shelesnyak, Yair Garbuz: Two Friends, Unknown Works”, Nelly Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1997 “Hamidrasha: The Midrasha School Exhibition”, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan
  • 1998 “Perspectives on Israeli Art of the Seventies”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • “90 Years of Israeli Art: A Selection from the Joseph Hackmey – Israel Phoenix Collection”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • “Hebrew Work: The Disregarded Gaze in the Canon of Israeli Art”, Mishkan Le’Omanut,Museum of Art, Ein Harod; traveling exhibition, the Israeli Forum of Art Museums
  • “Positive Representations of the Other in Contemporary Israeli Art”, Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod; Bat Yam Museum; Ashdod Museum; Municipal Art Gallery, Arad; Wilfrid Israel Museum, Kibbutz Hazorea
  • 1999 “Not to be Looked At: Unseen Sites in Israel Today”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • “About Raffi”, Hamidrasha Gallery in Tel Aviv – Nophar Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 2001 “Storytellers”, Peer – Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 2002 “Focus on Painting”, Haifa Museum of Art
  • “Imagine: Artists for Co-Existence”, The Art Gallery, Um el-Fahem; Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • “It Said: Danger of Illustration, and Should Have Read: Horror”, Goren Art Gallery, The Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel, Jezreel Valley
  • 2003 “The Return to Zion: Beyond the Place Principle”, Time for Art – Center for Art, Tel Aviv
  • “Collectorship”, a series of exhibitions from the Benno Kalev Collection, The Art Gallery, Memorial Center Kiryat Tivon; Bat Yam Museum; The Municipal Gallery, Rehovot
  • 2004 “The Ashkenazim”, Hamidrasha Gallery in Tel Aviv
  • “A Point of View”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • “Homage to Hanoch Levin”, Haifa Museum of Art
  • “Video Zero, Towards Cinema”, an exhibition of video-art and artists’ films, Haifa Museum of Art
  • 2005 “To be Looked at with One Eye, Close To…”, Ashdod Art Museum
  • 2012 “After”, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 2013 “Summer Exhibition”, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 2015 “Paper-Photography: Works on paper and Photographs from the 1970’s”, Gordon Gallery2, Tel Aviv
  • “Charred. Rusted. Drawings.”, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 2017 “Ingathering” 10th Anniversary to The Rappaport Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv

Selected Group Exhibitions

Born in Givatayim, 1945
Lives and works in Ramat Gan

Prizes and Awards

Collections