Biography

Michael Druks

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • 1966
    - Student House, Tel Aviv University (with Menachem Binyancki)
  • 1967
    - Tzavta Club, Tel Aviv
  • 1968
    - Dogit Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1969
    - Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1970
    - "Environment," Billy Rose Pavilion, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • 1971
    - "Sanwiches," Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1973
    - "Flexible Geography," Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
  • 1974
    - "Punishments," In-Out Center, Amsterdam; Agora Studio and Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, Netherlands
  • 1975
    - "Image-Identity," ICC, Antwerp
    - Midland Gallery, Nottingham
    - "Two Installations," PMJ Self Gallery, London
  • 1976
    - "Everyone and Their Own Shadow," Whitechapel Gallery, London
    - "Simple Fragments," Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1977
    - "Territory - Living Space," The New Gallery Ludwig Collection, Aachen (catalogue)
    - Baack'scher Kunstraum, Cologne
  • 1978
    - "Vague Definitions," ICA, London; Curator: Sarah Kent
    - "Chance and Originality," Exhibition and Action Spaces, Bern, Switzerland
  • 1981
    - "Drawings," Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1983
    - "Projections of Photographic States," Israel Museum, Jerusalem
    - Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
    - Mishkenot Sha'ananim, Jerusalem
  • 1987
    - Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
    - Mishkenot Sha'ananim, Jerusalem
  • 1988
    - Judy M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1990
    - Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1991
    - "Works on Paper," Kibbutz Cabri Gallery
  • 1992
    - "Works on Paper," Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • 1993
    - Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1994
    - Birdsmoor Gallery, London
  • 1999
    - Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 2001
    - "Circumstantial Evidence: New Images," Birdsmoor Gallery, London
    - Art Space 40 NP, Amsterdam
  • 2002
    - Twituk Clinic, London
  • 2004
    - "Droxland: Video Works," Haifa Museum of Art
    - "Forensic Identification: Color and Material," Birdsmoor Gallery, London
  • 2005
    - "Paintings and Drawings," Nalai Artist Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 2007
    - "Journeys in Droxland," Retrospective, Mishkenot Sha'ananim, Ein Harod
    - "Early Works 1982-1965," Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 1968
    - "For and Against" (collaborative work with Hanoch Levin), Gallery 220, Tel Aviv
    - "Summer Exhibition," Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1969
    - "Ten Plus Round," Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1970
    - "Ten Plus and Venus," Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1971
    - "Concept + Information," Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • 1972
    - "Affidavit for the Week: Idea, Process, Document," Gallery House, London
  • 1973
    - British International Drawing Biennale, Dorman Museum, Middlesbrough
    - Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv (featuring Yosef Zaritsky, Rafi Lavie, Uri Lishitz)
  • 1974
    - "Ten Years Ten Artists," Israel Museum, Jerusalem
    - "Head's End," Art Meeting Place, London
  • 1975
    - Traveling Exhibition in South America, Agora Studio, Maastricht: Museum of Contemporary Art, Buenos Aires
  • 1976
    - "Ideas," Whitechapel Gallery, London
    - "Time, Words, and Camera: Photography Facts by British Artists," Traveling Exhibition in Austria
  • 1977
    - Documenta 6, Kassel
  • 1978
    - "Artist-Society-Artist: Art on Society in Israel, 1948-1978," Tel Aviv Museum
  • 1979
    - "Events Between Art Forms: Body Art," National Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou, Paris
  • 1980
    - "Borders," Israel Museum, Jerusalem
    - "Contemporary Artists," Camden Arts Centre, London
  • 1984
    - "Eighty Years of Sculpture in Israel," Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • 1985
    - "Milestones in Israeli Art," Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • 1986
    - "For the Nearness of the Thing: The Poverty of Material as Quality in Israeli Art," Tel Aviv Museum
  • 1991
    - "The Missing Present: The Empty Chair in Israeli Art," University Art Gallery, Gania
  • 1992
    - "Traveling Paths: Immigration, Journeys, and Transitions in Contemporary Israeli Art," Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • 1994
    - "Developments in Israeli Photography in the Last Twenty Years," Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • 1997
    - "Cartographers," Traveling Exhibition in Eastern Europe
  • 1998
    - "Trends in Israeli Art in the 1970s: The Eyes of the State," Tel Aviv Museum of Art
    - "In the Light of the Menorah: The Evolution of a Symbol," Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • 2001
    - "Love at First Sight: Israeli Art from the Vera, Sylvia, and Arturo Schwartz Collection," Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • 2003
    - "Yes, You Should: The Revival of Judaism in Israeli Art," Zeit für Kunst, Tel Aviv
    - "Video 1 Zero: Communication Disruptions," Haifa Museum of Art
    - "The Map is Not the Territory, Part 2," James Hockney Gallery, London

Born in 1940, Jerusalem.
Has been living and working in London since 1972.

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