Biography

Alima

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • 1960 Rina Gallery, Jerusalem, (cat.) Katz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1965 New Vision Center Gallery, London, (cat.)
  • 1967 Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1969 The Artist's House, Jerusalem Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1971 Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1972 Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv Museum, curator: Haim Gamzu, (cat.) Betha Urdang Gallery, New York
  • 1975 Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1977 Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1980 Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1981 Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1982 The Visual Arts Center, Be'er Sheva
  • 1984 Kibbutz Kabri Gallery
  • 1987 Kibbutz Na'an Gallery Kibbutz Be'eri Gallery
  • 1988 Memorial Center Gallery, Kiryat Ono
  • 1990 Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, curator: Miriam Tuvia Boneh, (cat.)
  • 1995 Sara Levi Gallery 2002 Hotel Sadona Gallery, Rangoon, Burma, curator: Efrat Marx Avrahami, (cat.)
  • 2005 Kibbutz Lohemei Hagetot Gallery, curators: Tova Havardi and Michal Hurwitz Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv, curator: Doron Rabina
  • 2006 Avraham Baron Art Gallery, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, curator: Haim Maor, (cat.)
  • 2008 "Between Frame and Window," Tel Aviv Museum of Art, curator: Yaniv Shapira, (cat.)

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 1959 "Young Artists," The Painters and Sculptors Association, Tel Aviv Biennale of Young Artists, Musuem of Modern Art, Paric, curator: Eugen Kolb, (cat.)
  • 1960 "Modern Art in Israel 1960," The Oainters and Sculptors Association, Tel Aviv "Twenty Israeli Artists," Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paolo, curator: Liseta Levy
  • 1962 "Israeli Art," St. John's Wood Center, London
  • 1964 "Small Sculptures and Drawings," Manchester Institute of Contemporary Art, Manchester, (cat.)
  • 1965 "International Alphabet of Modern Art," New Vision Center, London "The Visual Art," Harlow Art Festival, Essex, England, (cat.)
  • 1966 "The Smallest Works of the 10+ Artists," Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv "Art in Israel," Tal Aviv Museum and the Painters and Sculptors Association, Tel Aviv, (cat.)
  • 1966-1970 "The Autumn Exhibition," Tel Aviv Museum
  • 1967 "Jerusalem by Israeli Artists," The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, (cat.) "10+ in Red," Katz Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1968 "Art in Israel," Tel Aviv Museum and the Painters and Sculptors Association, Tel Aviv, (cat.)
  • 1969 "Leap of Faith: Israeli Art 1969," State University of New York Gallery, Albany, New York, curator: Bertha Urdang, (cat.) "Stop! Green!" Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv and the Painters and Sculptors Association, Jerusalem "10+ in Round," Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv "100 Prints," The Painters and Sculptors Association, Jerusalem "New Acquisitions," The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, curator: Elisheva Cohen
  • 1970 "10+, 10th Exhibition," Dugit Gallery, Tel Aviv "Israeli Artists," Painters and Sculptors Association, Jerusalem "New Acquisitions," The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, curator: Elisheva Cohen
  • 1971 "Looking Up," University of Rochester, New York, curator: Bertha Urdang, (cat.)
  • 1972 "In a Straight Line," The Painters and Sculptors Association, Tel Aviv
  • 1972-1974 "The International Exhibition of Original Drawings," Museum of Modern Art, Rijeka, Yugoslavia (cat.)
  • 1973 "New Acquisitions," The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, curator: Meira Perry-Lehman "Six Israeli Print Artists," traveling exhibition on South America, curator: Amnon Barzel, (cat.) "Graphic Art in Israel Today," Tel Aviv Museum of Art, curator: Haim Gamzu, (cat.)
  • 1975 "Artists of Israel," Flegias Gallery, Rome, curator: Marco Mancini, (cat.)
  • 1976 "Intergrafik: Prints," Fantique Gallery, Copenhagen "From the Geometric to the Hard Edge," The Painters and Sculptors Association, Tel Aviv "From the Museums' Israeli Colection," Haifa Museum of Art
  • 1978 "Graphic Works by 30 Israeli Artists," The Tel Aviv University Gallery, curator: Mordechai Omer "Abstract Works from Israel," Hedenaagse Kunst Museum, Utrecht, Holland, curator Meira Perry-Lehman, (cat.) "Works from 10+ Exhibitions," Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1979 "Graphic Works from the Mediterranean," Volkschochschule, Leverkusen, Germany, curator: Ernst Kuchler, (cat.) "Color," The Israel Museum, Jerusaelm, curator: Yocheved Weinfeld
  • 1979 "Graphic Works from the Mediterranean," Volkschochschule, Leverkusen, Germany, curator: Ernst Kuchler, (cat.) "Color," The Israel Museum, Jerusaelm, curator: Yocheved Weinfeld
  • 1980 "Jerusalem and the Israeli Printmakers," Tower of David Museum, Jerusalem, curator: Mordechai Omer, (cat.)
  • 1981 "Trends in Israeli Art, 1970-1980," International Art Fair, Basel, curator: Micahel Levin "Israeli Prints from the Burston Graphic Center," The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, curator: Meira Perry-Lehmann, (cat.)
  • 1982 "Arteder '82: Musestra Internacional de Obra Grafica," Bilbao, Spain, (cat.)
  • 1983 "Israeli Artists in print: The Israel Museum Presents from the Burston Graphic Center," Barbican Center, London, curator: Nehama Hillman, (cat.) International Art Biennale, Valparaiso, Chile, (cat.) "Contemporary Graphic Art," Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod
  • 1985 "Life and Art in Israel," Anakapalle Art Academy, Anakapalle, India, curator: Nehama Hillman "Enrichment-Variety-Value," Haifa Museum of Art
  • 1986 "Landscape and Nature: Contemporary Israeli Prints from the Burston Graphic Center," Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Australia, curator: Meira Perry-Lehmann
  • 1989 "The Israel Museum and Burston Graphic Center Present: Israeli Prints," Flax Gallery, New York, (cat.)
  • 1990 "Print Today," The Painters and Sculptors Association, Tel Aviv, curator: Deganit Berest, (cat.) "Intergrafic 90," International Print Biennial, Berlin, (cat.)
  • 1994 "The Printer's Imprint: Twenty Years of the Jerusalem Print Workshop," The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, curator: Meira Perry-Lehmann and Arik Kilemnik, (cat.)
  • 1996 "Blue and White," Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv, curator: Talia Rapaport, (cat.)
  • 1998 "Women Artists in Israeli Art 1948-1998," Haifa Museum of Art, curator: Ilana Teicher, (cat.)
  • 2002 "Chana Orloff's Private Collection: The School of Paris and Eretz-Israel Artists," Mane Katz Museum, Haifa, curator: Hannah Koppler, (cat.)
  • 2004 "New Prints," Jerusalem Print Workshop
  • 2006 "Three Etching Exhibitions," The Negev Museum of Art, Be'er Sheva, curators: Noga Rabad and Arik Kilemnik, (cat.)
  • 2008 "1972 - Three Generations," The Kupferman Collection House, Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot, curator: Yona Fischer "DIY*, The Michael Adler Collection and Israeli Post-Minimalism in the Seventies and in Contemporary Art," Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, curator: Adi Englman, (cat.) "The 10+ Group: Myth and Reality," tel Aviv Museum of Art, curator: Benno Kalev, (cat.) "The Birth of Now: Art in the 1960s," Ashdod Museum - Monart Center, curators: Yona Fischer and Tamar Manor Friedman, (cat.)
Born in Nesher, 1932
Lived and worked in Tel Aviv
Died in Tel Aviv, 2013

 

Prizes and Awards

  • 1960‍ Award for Graphic Work, Haifa Museum of Art‍
  • 1978‍ The Helena Rubenstein Foundation Scholarship, awarded by the America-Israel Cultural Foundation‍
  • 1987‍ Eugen Kolb Prize for Israeli Graphic Art‍
  • 2007‍ Encouragement Prize, Israeli Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport, Culture and Arts Administration‍
  • The Israel Lottery Council for the Arts Grant in Support of a Retrospective Exhibition‍
  • 2008‍ The Painter Nata Dushintsky-Kaplan Fund Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

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