Biography

Yechiel Shemi

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • 1957 - Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
  • 1957 - Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
  • 1960 - Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, USA
  • Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
  • 1966 - "Yaacov Shimoni, Sculptures 1966-1962", Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
  • 1966 - "Small Sculptures", Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
  • 1967 - Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
  • 1971 - Beit Goldmann, Haifa, Israel
  • 1973 - Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, USA
  • 1975 - "Yaacov Shimoni", Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, USA
  • 1976 - "Envelope Sculpture", Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
  • 1976 - "Sculptures from the 50s and Drawings", Dvir Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
  • 1978 - "Forces United: Drawings", Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
  • 1979 - "Collages of Paper and Charcoal and Sculptures", Dvir Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
  • 1980 - "The Wells: Wall Sculptures", Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, USA
  • 1981 - "The Wells: Iron Sculptures", Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
  • 1982 - "Wood and Iron Sculptures", Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
  • 1982 - Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, USA
  • 1982 - Gallery in Kabri, Kabri, Israel
  • 1984 - Mishkenot Sha'ananim Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
  • 1985 - "The Wells", Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
  • 1985 - "Four Iron Wells and Small Collages", Artists' Workshops, Jerusalem, Israel
  • 1986 - "Two Wood and Iron Sculptures", Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
  • 1988 - "Yaacov Shimoni Retrospective Exhibition", Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel
  • 1988 - "Etchings and Collages", Rosh Hanikra Gallery, Rosh Hanikra, Israel
  • 1990 - "Paintings", Gallery in Kabri, Kabri, Israel
  • 1990 - "Etchings and Lithographs", Print Workshop, Jerusalem, Israel
  • 1990 - "Yaacov Shimoni, Paintings", Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
  • 1993 - "Facts - Wall Sculptures - Shfatech La'Avot Yeshurun", Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
  • 1994 - "Wall Sculptures", Gallery in Kabri, Kabri, Israel
  • 1995 - "Yaacov Shimoni 95-93", Open Museum, Tefen, Israel
  • 1997 - "Yaacov Shimoni Retrospective", Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

Selected Group Exhibitions

Born to Moshe and Esther Stizberg, 1922

Died October 31, 2003

Prizes and Awards

  • 1954 Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo
  • 1966 Milo Club Prize
  • 1981 Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • 1986 Israel Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Sculpture
  • 2000 The Mendel and Eva Pundik Foundation Prize for an Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv

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