Biography

Larry Abramson

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • 1975 The Little Gallery, Jerusalem
  • 1977 Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1978 Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York
  • Russ Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1979 Black Squares, Gimel Gallery, Jerusalem
  • 1980 The Yellow Square, Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York
  • 1983 Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1986 Nevo, Aika Brown Gallery, Artists’ Studios, Jerusalem
  • 1987 Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1989 Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • 1990 Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1993 Coincidences, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • 1994 Coincidences, Galerie Hubertus Wunschik, Dusseldorf Carobglyphics, Gallery of the Art Institute, Oranim
  • 1995 Tsooba, Kibbutz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1996 Giornata, Noga Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1998 ShalomShalom, Noga Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1999 Impression, Refusalon Gallery, San Francisco
  • 2001 Eventus Nocturnus, Haifa Museum of Art
  • Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
  • 2003 1906, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
  • 2004 The Rose of Jericho, Jerusalem Print Workshop
  • 2005 Searching for the Ideal City, Magnes Museum, Berkeley
  • The Pile, Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabrueck, and Ein Harod Museum of Art
  • The Syrian-African Fault, Beit Gavriel, Kinneret
  • 2006 Mini Israel, 70 Models, 45 Artists, One Space – an exhibition by Larry Abramson, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • 2007 Recent Paintings, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 2010 Larry Abramson: Paintings 1975-2010, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (cat.)
  • 2011 Waxing/Waning, Peres Center for Peace, Jaffa
  • 2012 1967, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • Spies, Gallery of the Art Institute, Oranim
  • 2013 Symptoms, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 2014 Das Kleine Blumenbuch, Circle1, Berlin
  • 2016 Chovevei Zion, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • Botany, Jerusalem print workshop (cat.)
  • Spy Apter-Barrer Gallery, Ma’alot-Tarshicha; Curator: Noga Migdal (cat.)
  • 2018 VOLTA NY, with Gordon Gallery

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 1979 News I, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • 1980 Lines into Drawing, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • 1981 A Turning Point, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • 1983 Sao Paulo Biennale of Art
  • 1984 Flesh and Blood, Jerusalem Theatre, Ben Gurion University, Herzliya Museum
  • Two Years – Qualities Accumulated, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • 1985 El Mithos Lelo El, Artists’ House, Jerusalem
  • 1986 Territories of Colour, Israeli Pavilion, Venice Biennale
  • Art – Israel, the 1980’s, Richard Green Gallery, New York
  • 1988 Fresh Paint: The Younger Generation in Israeli Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • It’s Possible – Israeli-Palestinian Exhibition, Cooper Union Gallery, New York
  • Artists for Human Rights, Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1990 The Art of Description, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • 1990, Ein Harod Museum of Art
  • 1991 Israeli Art Now, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • 1992 Routes of Wandering, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • Einblicke-Ausblicke, Leipzig Opera House
  • Works on Paper from the 70’s, Artifact Gallery, Jaffa
  • Dreams 1 and 2, Mary Fawzi Gallery, Jaffa
  • 1993 Subtropical – Between Figuration and Abstraction, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • Locus – Contemporary Art from Israel, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
  • 1994 Separate Worlds, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • The Printer’s Imprint – Twenty Years of the Jerusalem Print Workshop, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • 1995 Preview from the Rita and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • 1997 Sharing Jerusalem – Two Capitals for Two States, Al-Wasiti Art Center, Jerusalem
  • 400 Years of Art and Anatomy, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • 1998 To the East – Orientalism in the Arts in Israel, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • Kol Anot – Biblical Motives in Israeli Art, 1970-1998, Artists’ House, Tel Aviv
  • Reflections of Monet, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • 1999 Tales of the Sands – Contemporary Israeli Art, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburg
  • Artfocus, Teddy Stadium, Jerusalem
  • 4 Kunstler aus Jerusalem, P.C.C. Kunstraum, Weimar
  • 2000 1:1, Refusalon Gallery, San Francisco
  • Sun, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • Contemporary Landscape from Israel, Trondhjems Kunstforening and Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Norway
  • 2014 Das Kleine Blumenbuch, Circle1, Berlin
  • 2001 Love at First Sight – The Arturo Schwarz Collection of Israeli Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • A Common Thread – Artists Tribute to Moshe Kupferman, Artspace Gallery, Jerusalem
  • 2002 Imagine – 300 Artists for Co-existence, Umm El Fahem Gallery
  • 35 Israeli and Palestinian Artists against the Occupation and for a Common Tomorrow, Hagar Gallery, Jaffa, Artists House and Al-Wasiti Art Center, Jerusalem
  • The Return to Zion: Beyond the Principle of Place, Zman Le’Omanut, Tel Aviv
  • 2003 Ruins Revisited – The Image of the Ruin in Israel 1803-2003, Zman Le’Omanut, Tel Aviv
  • 2004 A Point of View, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • Branded Landscapes, Ben Gurion University, Be’er Sheva
  • First Flowers of Israeli Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • 2005 The New Hebrews – A Century of Art in Israel, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
  • Espacios Comunes, Foundation Tres Culturas, Pabellon Hassan II, Sevilla
  • Prints and Artists’ Books from the Jerusalem Print Workshop, Widener Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford
  • 2006 Etchings from the Brain, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • 2007 Visiting Kupferman, Kupferman Collection Museum, Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot
  • On a Small Scale, Jerusalem Print Workshop
  • Desert Generation – Israeli and Palestinian Artists against the Occupation, Artists’ House, Jerusalem, Kibbutz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Meneer deWit Gallery, Amsterdam and Gallery of Metropolitan University, Manchester.
  • 2008 Checkpost: the 80’s in Israeli Art, Haifa Museum of Art, curator: Ilana Tennenbaum (cat.)
  • The Hidden Trace: Jewish Paths through Modernity, Felix-Nussbaum-Haus, Osnabrueck, curator: Inge Jaehner (cat.)
  • Art of the State: Contemporary Photography and Video Art from Israel, Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam; CC De Werft – De Halle, Geel; De Garage, Cultuurcentrum, Mechelen, curator: Edward Van Voolen
  • Near and Apparent: Connections and Contexts from the Benno Kalev Collection, The Open Museum Tefen Industrial PArka, curator: Benno Kalev (cat.)
  • Rare Medium, Center of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (cat.)
  • 2009 Landsc®ape, Petach Tikva Museum; curator: Sigal Barkai
  • Nature Nation, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, curator: Raphie Etgar (cat.)
  • Special Edition: The Newspaper as Raw Material in Israeli Art, Ben Gurion
  • University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, curators: Haim Maor and students (cat.)
  • Family Traces, Israel Museum, curator: Tami Manor-Friedman
  • 2010 More than One, Jerusalem Print Workshop; Curators: Arik Kilemnik and Irena Gordon
  • Nachbarn, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, curator: Reviva Regev (catalogue)
  • Traces IV – Caught in the Thicket, Fourth Biennale for Drawing, Jerusalem Artists House, curator: Tamar Manor-Friedman (cat.)
  • 2011 On the Cloud’s Edge, ALMA Home for Hebrew Culture, Tel Aviv; curator: Elad Armon
  • The Museum Presents Itself: Israeli Art from the Museum Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, curator: Ellen Ginton
  • 2012 After, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv, curator: Shlomit Breuer
  • City of God, Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow
  • The Absent Body: Body Imagery between Judaism and Christianity in the Work of Eight Israeli Artists, Beit Hatfutsot, Tel Aviv, curator: Irena Gordon (cat.)
  • Vayaanunu, Artists’ House, Tel Aviv, curator: Ishai Menuchin (cat.)
  • 2013 Summer Exhibition, Gordon Gallery 2, Tel Aviv
  • Magia Naturalis: Israeli Artists Study Nature, p8 Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • Print Time, The Open Museum, Tefen Industrial Park; Curators: Ruthi Ofek, Irena Gordon
  • 2014 Under Erasure, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Curator: Irith Hadar (cat.)
  • 2015 Summer Exhibition, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • Flora Palestina, Musrara – The New Gallery, Jerusalem; Curator: Avi Sabag
  • Unprotected Zone, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem; Curator: Raphie Etgar (cat.)
  • 2016 Hamagdirim, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
  • Take Painting, Petach Tikva Museum of Art
Born in South Africa, 1954
Immigrated to Israel, 1961
Lives and works in Tel Aviv

Prizes and Awards

  • 1979 Kolliner Prize for a Young Israeli Artist, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • Young Artist Award, Culture and Art Council
  • 1988 America-Israel Cultural Foundation Award
  • 1991 Jacques O’hana Prize for a Young Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • 1993 Project Award, Ministry of Science and Arts
  • 1998 Minister of Education and Culture Award
  • 2007 Mendel and Eva Pundik Prize for Israeli Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

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