1958 Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum (The Yitzhak Katznelson Holocaust and Resistance Heritage Museum, Kibbutz Lohamei Haghetaot, Israel
1960 “Oil Paintings,” The Chemerinsky Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1962 Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum, Kibbutz Lohamei Haghetaot, Israel
1968 Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum, Kibbutz Lohamei Haghetaot, Israel
1969 “Kupferman” The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel curator: Yona Fischer (Catalogue)
1971 “Drawings”, Mabat Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1972 * “Oil Paintings”, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum, Kibbutz Lohamei Haghetaot, Israel
“New Works”, Museum of Modern Art, Haifa, Israel curator: Gabriel Tadmor (Catalogue)
1973 “Pencil – Acrylic – Pencil”, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Rina (Bertha Urdang) Gallery, New York, U.S.A and Jerusalem, Israel
1974 Rina (Bertha Urdang) Gallery, New York, U.S.A (Catalogue)
1975 “Painting and Sculpture”, Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Gida Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
“Ten Drawings”, Rina (Bertha Urdang) Gallery, New York, U.S.A
1976 “Drawings”, Sarah Levi Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1977 “Five Paintings, Nine” Drawings Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, U.S.A (Catalogue)
1978 “Lithographs”, Sarah Levi Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
“Divided Pages”, Sarah Levi Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
“Kupferman”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel curator: Sarah Breitberg (Catalogue)
1979 “Populated Pages”, Gimel Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
“Sensible Exploration”, The University Art Gallery, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A curator: Betty Collins
1980 Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York
“Divided Pages Continued”, Sarah Levi Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
“Matrix 61”, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.A curator: Andrea Miller-Keller
“Works on Pepar: Prints and Drawings 1972-1980”, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland;
1981-3 Tranegarden Art Library, Copenhagen, Denmark; National museum, Stockholm, Sweden curators: Ad Petersen, Yona Fischer (Catalogues)
1982 Shirley Cerf Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A
Sarah Levi Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Noemi Givon Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1984 “Painting in Times of Collapse”, Noemi Givon Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
“two Exhibitions in One” Givon Art Gallery and Noemi Givon Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1984-5 “Paintings, Works on Paper, 1963-1984”, The Israel Museum, Jeruusalem; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel curator: Yona Fischer (Catalogue)
1985 “Works in Oil”, Sarah Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
1987 “Papers”, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Kibbutz Be’eri Gallery; Kibbutz Na’an Gallery; Kibbutz Givat Brenner Gallery, Israel
Paintings, Works on paper”, Musee national d’Art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France curators: Alfred Pacquement, Yona Fischer (Catalogue)
1988 Weinberger Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
1989 “Recent Works on Paper” Gimel Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
“Three ’88 and Other Papers” Kibbutz Lohamei Haghetaot Gallery, Israel curator: Avi Hurwitz
1990 “Canvases” Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
“Works on Paper”, Gimel Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
FIAC ’90, Grand Palais, Paris, France (by Galerie Jacquester, Paris)
Galerie Jacquester, Paris, France
1991 Musee d’Art contemporain, Dunkerque, France
FIAC ’91, Grand Palais, Paris, France (by Galerie Jacquester, Paris)
“Encounters: Picture, 1969-1990”, Atelier Kupferman and Kibbutz Lohamei Haghetaot Gallery, Israel curator: Avi Hurwitz
“Between Oblivion and Remembrance: Oil Paintings and Works on Paper 1972-1991” North Carolina
1991-2 Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.A; Albright-knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, U.S.A curators: John Coffey II, Douglas Schultz (Catalogue)
1992 “Paintings”, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
“Works on Paper”, Teaching Gallery of the Art Department, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel curator: Avishai Eyal
“Twenty-One Years of Paintings and Works on Paper”, Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, U.S.A
Shigeru Yokota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (Catalogue)
1993 “Scrolls and Other Possibilities” Sarah Levi Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
“Works on Paper” Museum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland curator: Jaromir Jedlinski, Yona Fischer (Catalogue)
“Oil Paintings” Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland curator: Yona Fischer
Weinberger Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Drawings / Dessins” (with Jacob El Hanani), Centre des Arts Saidye Bronfman, Montreal, Kanada curator: Marge Goldwater (Catalogue)
1994 “Marginal Works” Kibbutz Lohamei Haghetaot Gallery, Israel curator: Noh Melamed
The Studio, Gallery for Drawing and Works on Papers, Ra’anana, Israel Curator: Gabi Ben Jano
Studio bocchi, Rome, Italy (within the framework of the Israeli Art Month in Rome)
International Art Fair, Basel, Swisslend (by Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv)
1995 “Work on Paper”, The Gallery of Israeli Art, Memorial Center, Kiryat Tivon, Israel curator: Esti Reshef
“Observation: Recent Years”, Bar David Museum, Kibbutz Bar’am, Israel
Shigeru Yokota Gallery, Tokyo (within the framework of the exhibition series PAX, marking 50 years of the bombing of Hiroshima)
1996 “Encounters” Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
“Four Canvases – Confronting You”, Kibbutz Lohamei Haghetaot Gallery, Israel curator: Noh Melamed
1997 Shigeru Yokota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1998 “Work Diary – Screenprints 1996-1998”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art & Har-El Printers and Publishers, Israel curator: Edna Moshenson (Catalogue)
“Oil on Canvas” Kibbutz Lohamei Haghetaot Gallery; “Works on Paper, Scrolls Small Works” Gallery of Israeli Art, Kibbutz Cabri, Israel curators: Noa Melamed; Drora Dekel
“Six Scrolls: In Memory of Avi Hurwitz on the Second Anniversary of His Death” Kibbutz Lohamei Haghetaot Gallery, Israel curator: Noa Melamed
“Painting, Works on Paper, Scrolls” Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia; Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A (Catalogue) curators: Yona Fischer, Jill Snyder
“Les Megillot de Moshe Kupferman”, Musee d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaisme, Paris, France Curators Nathalie Hazan – Branet, Yona Fischer (Catalogue) (within the framework of the Israeli Season in France – “Israel au miroir des artistes”)
1999 “Navigator”, The Rachel and Israel Pollak Gallery, Kalisher School of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel curator: Pesach Slabosky
2000 “The Rift in Time” Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel curator: Shmuel Givon (Catalogue)
“Paintings After A Caged Bird, The Last Book of Poems by Yair Horwitz: in His Memory” The Border Museum, Metulla, Israel curator: Naomi Aviv (within the framework of the “Poetry 2000” festival)
Work on Paper” Kibbutz Be’eri Gallery, Israel
2002 “Moshe Kupferman, Works from 1962 to 2000” The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel curator:Yona Fischer
2005 “Moshe Kupferman”, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
Selected Group Exhibitions
1958 “Exhibition of the Workers’ Settlements” Tel Aviv Museum Dizengoff House Tel Aviv, Israel
1963 “Ecole de Paris: Peintres Israeliens”, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, France curator: Haim Gamzu
1964 “outlook” Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum
1965 “The Autumn Salon” Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum
1968 “Israel on Paper” San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California, U.S.A curator: Bertha Urdang
1969 “A Leap of Faith”, State University of New York, Albany, U.S.A curator: Bertha Urdang
1972 Rina (Bertha Urdang) Gallery, New York, U.S.A
1974 “Four Artists from the Museum’s Collection” The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel curator: Yona Fischer
“Beyond Drawing”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel curator: Meira Perry
1975 Three Israeli Artists: Gross, Neustein, Kupferman”, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Curator: Richard Stuart Teits
1977 “10 Kunstnere fra Israel (10 Artists from Israel”, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humleback, Denmark; curators: Hugo Arne Buch, Yona Fischer
1978 “From The Collection of Dr. Moshe Spitzer”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel curator: Meira Perry Lehaman
1978-9 “Seven Artists in Israel 1948-1978”, Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, U.S.A, Brooklyn Museum, New York, U.S.A; curators: Stephanie Barron, Maurice Tuchman
1979 Graphics Biennial, Tokyo, Japan
Graphics Biennial, Bradford, England
1980 “Marking Black”, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, U.S.A
“Artists from Israel” Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester University, New York, U.S.A curator: Bertha Urdang
“Lines into Drawing”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel curator: Meira Perry Lehaman
“Trends in Israeli Art, 1970-1980”, International Art Fair, Basel Curator: Michael Levin
1981-2 “Artists of Israel: 1920-1980”, The Jewish Museum, New York; Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona; Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester University, New York; Metropolitan Museum and Art Center, Coral Gables, Florida; curator: Susan Tumarkin – Goodman
1982 Graphics Biennial, Bilbao, Spain
“Artists Tribute to Bertha Urdang”, The Israel Museum Jerusalem, Israel curators: Yigal Zalmona, Judith Spitzer
1984 “Drawings, 1974-1984”, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. , U.S.A curator: Frank Gettings
“Kunst in Israel (Art in Israel) 1906-1985” Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwer curator: Yigal Zalmona
1985 “Milestones in Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel curator: Yigal Zalmona
1986 “The Want of Matter A Quality in Israeli Art”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel curator: Sarah Breitberg-Semel
“Color Territories: The Israeli Pavilion”, Venice Biennale curator: Yona Fischer1987
Drawing – Invitational: Exhibition from New York, U.S.A “, Ewan Doherty Gallery, Municipal Art Institute, Sydney, Australia curator: Bertha Urdang
The Disciplined Spirit”, Exit Art Gallery, New York, U.S.A curator: Bertha Urdang
1987-9 FIAC ’87 (by Galerie Jacquester, Paris, France)
“80-Luvun Taidetta Israelista / 80-TAls – Konst fran Israel”, Helsingin Taidehalli, Helsinki, Finland; Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden curators: Neomi Assaf, Yigal Zalmon
“Kunst aus Israel: Vier zeitgenossische Kunstler aus der Sammlung Charles Mayorkas, Zug”, Kunsthus, Zug Switzerland, Nikolaj Church, Copenhagen, Denmark curator: Lise Funder
1989 “In Shadow of Conflict Israeli Art, 1980-1989” The Jewish Museum New York, U.S.A curator:Susan Tumarkin – Goodman
Contemporary Israeli Art” Konsthallen, Stockholm, Sweden curator: Viveca Lindenstand
“Art from Israel: Dorchin, Gershuni, Kupferman, Lavie, Uri”, Nikolaj Church, Copenhagen, Denmark curator: Lise Funder
1990 “Chagall to Kitaj: Jewish Experience in 20th Century Art”, Barbican Art Gallery, London, Englend curator: Avram Kamft
1991 “Art in Israel Today”, Detroit Art Institute, Detroit. U.S.A curator: Jan van der Marck
1992 Beyond Logos” Museum of Art, Belgrade
curators: Zoran Gavric, Zana Gvozdenovic
1994 “Emphasis”, The Israel Museum Jerusalem, Israel
curator: Yigal Zalmona (within the framework of Art Focus1)
“Drawing on These Shores: A View of British Drawing and Its Affinities” traveling exbition around galleries and museums in Great Britain curator: Glenn Soju
“Halal: Arte Contemporanea da Israele” Studio Bocchi, Rome, Italy curator: Mary – Angela Schroth
1995 “Carnegie International 1995” The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A
curator: Richard Armstrong
“Where is Abel, thy Brother?”, Galeria Zacheta, Warsaw, Poland curator: Anda Rottenberg
“Preview from the Rita and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Israeli Art”, a gift to The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel curator: Shlomit Steinberg
1996 “Long Memory/ Short Memory: Ten Israeli Artists”, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.A curator: Nella Cassouto
1998 “90 Years of Israeli Art: A Selection from the Joseph Hackmey – Israel Phoenix Collection” Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel curator: Mordechai Omer
“After Rabin: New Art from Israel” The Jewish Museum, New York, S.A. curator: Susan Tumarkin – Goodman
“Contemporary Israeli Art: Three Generations”, Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies, London; National Gallery, Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens, Greece curator: Mordechai Omer (in collaboration with the Tel Aviv Museum of Art)
“Between Beauty and Destiny: Three Generations of Israeli Art” Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A curator: Jill Snyder
“Artists Books Har-El Printers and Publishers”, Passage de Retz, Paris curator:Yona Fischer (within the framework of the Israeli Season in France)
1999 “Modern Masterworks on Paper from The Israel Museum, Jerusalem” Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A curators: Meira Perry Lehmann Jane Glaubinger, Ruth Apter-Gabriel
2000 Le Repubbliche dell’arte Art and Artists from Israel and Palestine”, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena curator: Sergio Risaliti
2001 “Messages to the New Millennium: Moderm Israeli Art”, The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan curators:Tsutomu Mizusawa, Tadayasu Sakai; co-curator: Galia Bar-Or
2014 Amos Gitai, Renia Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain, Curator: Jean-Francois Chevrier
“Under Erasure”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv. Curator: Irit Hadar
2015 Basis And (super) structure, Basis for Art & Culture, Herzliya
2017 “The Land”, Jewish historical museum, Amsterdam, Holand
“Panda”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv. Curator: Joshua Neustein
Prizes and Awards
1971: Shiff Prize from the Municipality of Haifa
1972: Sandberg Prize, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1991: Haim Gamzu Prize for the Promotion of the Arts, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1996: Zussman Prize for Paintings on the Holocaust, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
1998: Ogen Kolb Prize for Israeli Graphic Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
