Biography

Ido Bar El

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • 1987 Israeli Art Special Exhibit, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • The Artists’ House Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • The Gallery of Bezalel Art & Design Academy, Jerusalem
  • 1988 Tongue in Cheek, Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1989 Oranim Art Institute Gallery
  • 1991 Kibbutz Cabri Art Gallery
  • Atelier Asperger Gallery, Berlin, Germany
  • 1993 Ido Bar-El Works, The Contemporary Art Museum, Belgium
  • The Tel-Aviv Art Museum, Tel Aviv
  • Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1995 Street Signs and Other Works, Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1996 University of Haifa Art Department Gallery, Haifa
  • 1997 Silvery Works, Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • Construction Works, The Herzliya Art Museum
  • 1998 Street Signs, Olaf Stuber Gallery, Berlin, Germany
  • 1999 New Paintings, The Artists’ Studios, Tel Aviv
  • 2000 Works never exposed before, Kibbutz Be’eri Art Gallery
  • 2001 Canvases and White Paintings, Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • Papers, The Artists’ Studios, Tel Aviv
  • 2001-2004 AM PM Paintings, Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • Ido Bar-El: Painting, The Comtemporary Art Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
  • 2003 Ido Bar-el Paintings, The Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
  • The Art Gallery at Oranim Training College, Kiriat Tivon
  • 2004 Ido Bar-el Paintings, Derbi Palace, Tukms, Latvia
  • Ido Bar-el Paintings, Arka Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
  • Ido Bar-el Paintings, Liepajas Museum, Latvia
  • 2005 Ido Bar-El: Paintings, Historical and Art Museum Daugspghils, Latvia
  • 2006 Selected Works 1985-2006, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 2009 Sign, Ashdod Art Museum, Ashdod
  • 2011 The Pictures Fell off the Wall, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 2013 Good Night, and Good Luck, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 2015 Bagatelle, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 1984 The Art Department’s Gallery, Bezalel Art and Design Academy
  • 1986 The Artists’ Studios, The Ika Brown Gallery, Jerusalem
  • 6 Young Artists, Ahad Ha’am Gallery, Tel-Aviv
  • 1987 Recent Acquisitions, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • 36 Artists, Bugrashov Gallery, Tel-Aviv
  • 1988 Fresh Paint; The young generation in the Israeli Art”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art The Critics’ Choice, Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • Down With the Occupation, Rega Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • The Education & Culture Award Winners, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat-Gan
  • Art in L.A., Givon Gallery, Art Fair in Los Angeles, U.S.A.
  • Neun Israeliche Maler, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Orangerie Herrenhausen, Hannover
  • 1989 The Israeli Proposal, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat-Gan
  • Other Frequencies, Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York
  • Israeli Art: Recent Acquisitions, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • 1990 More Than Drawing, Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • Towards the 90’s, Mishkan Le Omanut, Ein Harod, Israel
  • Five Painters from Israel, Pomeroy Purdy Gallery, London
  • The Promise – Young Artists Bezalel Art & Design Academy Graduates, The Inauguration of Bezalel Art & Design Academy in Jerusalem
  • 1991 Israeli Art Now – Extensive Presentation, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art Combined Painting, Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1992 Routes of Wandering, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • Positionen Israel, Bethanien Art Center, Berlin
  • 1993 In Extenso, Recent Acquisitions 1998-1993, The Contemporary Art Museum, Ghent, Belgium
  • Makom, Israeli Contemporary Art, The 20th Century Museum, The Modern Art Museum, Ludwig Collection, Vienna
  • Ghent Was Invited – Jan Hoet’s Choice”, De Beyerd, Breda, The Netherlands
  • 1994 Halal, Contemporary Art from Israel, Sala 1, Roma
  • Art… Language, Kunst Werke, Berlin
  • Tel-Aviv Follows the Bauhaus, The Ha’aretz House, Tel Aviv
  • Black Holes: The White Locus, The Israeli Presentation at The 22nd Biennial of Sao Paolo, Brazil, (exhibited in Brazil, Argentina and The Haifa Museum)
  • Homework, The Herzliya Art Museum; The University of Haifa Art Gallery; The Arad Museum; The Ashdod Museum
  • Hard Emphasizes, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • 1995 The British, Israeli & Argentinian Presentation of the 22nd Biennial of Sao Paolo, Centro Cultural Recolecta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • 4X4, Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • Regretfully I Don’t Agree with My Learned Colleagues, The Artists’ Studios, Tel Aviv
  • The First Glance, Works of The Rita & Arturo Schwartz Collection, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • And the Verdict Is, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
  • 1996 Ketav: Flesh and Word in Isreali Art, Contemporary Israeli Art, Auckland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • New Morning Sights, Hambacher Castle, Germany
  • 1997 Tanya Rempff Gallery, Haarlem, The Netherlands
  • Hussein the Peace King, The RJ Alia Art Gallery, Amman, Jordan
  • Painting on a Non Regular Surface, Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1998 The Lesser Light, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • Per Video, The Ludwig Museum, Koln, Germany, Nova Gallery Katovich, Poland, Galeria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Torino, Italy
  • Summer Collection, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art
  • After Rabin: Israeli Contemporary Art, The Jewish Museum, New York
  • Le Fou du Roi, Salles d’Expositions, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Nimes, France
  • The Dream House, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • 1999 On Paper, Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • This Isn’t a Ready Made, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • Homage to Rafi Lavi, Givon Gallery, Tel-Aviv Mus’e d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Liege, Belgium
  • Shimshon Crystal Collection, The Artists’ Pavilion, Tel Aviv
  • 2000 Wall of His Own, The Benno Kalev Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • Wish List, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • Havana Nagila, Isreali-Cuban dialogue, The Tel Aviv Artists’ Studios, Tel Aviv
  • Israeli Art, The “M” Art Gallery, Vienna, Austria
  • The Israeli Phoenix, Selected Art Works, The Sultan’s Stables, Istanbul
  • Per Video, Dar-El-Kalima Art Center, Bethlehem, The Palestinian Authority
  • 2001 Love at First Sight, Works of The Rita & Arturo Schwartz Collection, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • The Right to Return, The Nation Home Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • The Aura in Art, The Art Studies Center, Ramat Eliyahu, Rishon Letsion, Israel
  • The Sciences, Culture & Sport Award Winners, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • Where are the Children: On the Abandoning of Children in Our Era, Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • Traces, Contemporary Drawing in Israel, The Artists’ House, Jerusalem
  • 2002 Zman Achshav, Works of the International Collection, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • Chilufim, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
  • Where are the children, The Ein Harod Art Museum, Israel
  • D.I.Y. Art Collecting – Collecting as an Art, Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • Homage for Hanoch Levin, Prints’ Series of Israel’s best Artists, The New Cameri Theatre, Tel Aviv
  • 2003 Transfer, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
  • Transfer, Museum Am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
  • Homage for Hanoch Levin, Prints’ Series of Israel’s Best Artists, Traveling show in Israel
  • Boseretro, Youth works of artists at their onset, The Art Gallery of The State Art Teachers’ Training College, Beth Berl, Israel
  • 2004 How to Explain Art to a Dead Rabbit, The Polack Art Gallery, Kalisher Institute, Tel Aviv
  • In the Collection, The Contemporary Art Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
  • The Lesser the Better, Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • Stockholm Art Fair, Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • Ido Bar-El, Yanai Toyster, Nahum Tevet, Kobi Levi, Gallery Tal-Ester, Tel Aviv
  • The 80’s in Israeli Art, Didactic Gallery, Oranim Training College, Israel
  • 2005 Lights, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • Drawing-Sketch, The P.K.Hoenich Gallery for Experimental Art & Architecture, The Technion, Haifa
  • Favorites, Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • Painting, Charim Gallery, Vienna, Austria
  • 2006 The Suffocation of Painting, The Fine Arts Royal Museum, Antwerp, Belgium Detail, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 2007 The Rear, The First Herzliya Biennial of Contemporary Art, Herzliya
  • 2012 After, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 2015 Summer Exhibition, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
Born in Israel, 1959
Lives and works in Tel Aviv

Prizes and Awards

  • 1984 The Ehud Elhanani Award, The Art Departement, Bezalel Academy of Arts, Jerusalem
  • 1987 The Beatrice S. Coliner Young Artist Award, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • 1998 The Young Artist Award, The Minister of Education and Culture
  • 1993 The Hadassah & Raphael Klatchkin Creativity Award, The America-Israel Culture Fund
  • 1996 The Israeli Artist Award, The Minister of Education and Culture
  • 2001 Creativity Encouragement Award, The Minister of Sciences, Culture and Sports
  • 2014 The Rappaport Prize for an Established Israeli Painter, Tel Aviv Museum of ArtShapira, Sarit. “Ido Bar-El at Givon.” Art in America. no. 2: 101.

Collections

  • The Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • The Isreal Museum
  • The Herzliya Art Museum
  • The Ghent Contemporary Art Museum, Belgium
  • The Antwerp ModernArt Museum – Museum van Hedendagsse Kunst
  • The IBM collection
  • The Israeli Phoenix collection
  • The Charles Bronfman collection
  • The Werner’s family collection