| Born in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Lives in Ein Hod. Lecturer at the Haifa College of Design. Co founder of Pyramida - Centre for Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel ART STUDIES High School of Painting, Tel Aviv Atelier 17, Paris St. Martin's School of Art, London AWARDS AND GRANTS 1997 - Artist in residence, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, New York 1996 - The Haifa Foundation award, Israel 1989 - "Premio Cervo", Italy 1970 - Sharet travel stipend, Israel 1962 - Davidson award, Israel SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2008 - "It's Not All Black", Yair art gallery, Tel Aviv 2007 - "Diary of a Samurai", Artists studios house, Dusseldorf, Germany 2006 - "Tmunat Machzor", The Okashi Museum of Art, Acre, Israel 2005 - "The Silence of the Sea", The National Maritime Museum, Haifa, Israel 2004 - "Suspicious Symptoms", The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (cat.) 2003 - "MORTAL", Pyramida Center for Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel (cat.) 2002 - "The Fear of what is Suddenly too Late", Artists Studios, Dusseldorf, Germany 2000 - "112 Portraits Front & Back", galeria FF, Lodz, Poland (cat.) 1999 - Galerie Heiko Andreas, Dusseldorf, Germany (with Felix Droese) 1998 - Accumulations, Galerie ScauRaum, Dusseldorf, Germany 1996 - Hieroglyphics of Reality, Many H. gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (cat.) 1992 - From the Gut - from the Mind, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (cat.) 1981 - Structures for a Given Interior, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel (cat.) SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2009 - "Fotografie Aus Israel", Kultur Bahnhof Eller, Dusseldorf, Germany (cat.) 2008 - "International Triennale of Contemporary Art" (ITCA), National Gallery, Prague (cat.) -"The Birth of Now, art in the 1960's", Ashdod Art Museum, Monart Center, Israel (cat.) - "Twisted Reality", The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel (cat.) - "Nowhere", Pyramida Center for Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel - "The Art of Persuation", Westchester Community Colleg Art Gallery, New York 2007 - "The Other Sea", Artists House, Jerusalem, Israel (cat.) - "4 Young Artists", Ha'kibbutz gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel - "The Intelligible Non-Violent Art", Kunststation Kleinsassen, Germany (cat.) - "Grosse Kunst Ausstellung", Dusseldorf, Germany (cat.) - "CT Fish", Ha'kibbutz gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (cat.) 2006 - "The Divine Image", The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (cat.) - "The Intelligible Non-violent Art", Atlas Sztuki gallery, Lodz, Poland - "Ein Jahr - 34 Positionen - 34 Raume", Museum of Modern Art, Hunfeld, Germany - "Haifa in the Eyes of the Camera", Haifa City Museum, Israel - "Videostoria Series #3: Live Acts Performing the Body", Haifa Museum of Art, Israel - "Tracing Shadows", The Israel Museum, the Youth Ruth Wing, Jerusalem, Israel - "New Territories", De Hallen, Brugge, Belgium (cat.) - "An Issue of Disagreemant", Pyramida Center for Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel - "Illness Report", The Beer Sheva University Art Gallery, Israel (cat.) - "Argumenta", Atlas gallery, Lodz, Poland - "Motiva", Austrian Center, Vienna 2004 - "Towards Cinema", Videostoria series chapter ll, Haifa Museum of Art (cat.) 2003 - "Video Zero - Communication Interferences", Haifa Museum of Art (cat.) 2002 - "Shanghai in the Eyes of World Artists", Municipal Museum, Shanghai, China (book) - "Mail Art 7 -40 Years of Mail Art", Sala Cassero, Castel St. Pietro Terme,Italy (cat.) 2001 - "Jewish Artists on the Edge", Yeshiva University Museum, N.Y., USA (cat.) - "Markers", International outdoors project , Venice, Italy 2000 - Wish List, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel 1999 - 1st International Installation Trienalle, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel (cat.) 1998 - Milestones, Israeli Sculpture 1948-1998, The Open Museum, Tefen, Israel (cat.) - The Bridge - Construction in Process VI, an International Artists Museum project, Melbourne,Australia (cat.) 1997 - 4th Sculpture Biennale, Ein Hod, Israel (cat.) 1996 - In Paradise, international project, Pyramida Center of Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel 1995 - Memory and Obsession, Artist's House, Jerusalem (cat.) - Meridian Crossing - Hermit IV, international art meeting, Plasy monastery, Czech Republic (cat.) 1994 - 1st Triennale of Graphic Art, Maastricht, Holland (cat.) 1993 - Focus on Industry, Photographs, Ramat Gan Museum for Israeli Art (cat.) 1992 - 10th Triennale of Graphic Art, Frederikstad, Norway (cat.) 1991 - Prints from the Collection, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem - 19th International Biennale of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia (cat.) 1989 - Living with a Dream, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (cat.) - Architecture on Paper, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1988 - Modern Drawings - New Approaches, Museum of Modern Art, Haifa - Sky Line, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (cat.) - Photographers Against the Occupation, Camera Obscura gallery, Tel Aviv 1987 - Vom Landschaftsbild zur Spurensicherung, Ludwig Museum, Cologne (cat.) 1986 - The First Israeli Photography Biennale, Ein Harod Museum, Israel (cat) 1980 - Borders, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (cat) 1979 - Highlights from the collection of Israeli photography, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel PUBLIC COLLECTIONS In Israel: The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art, Haifa; Ein Harod Museum of Art Abroad: Ludwig Museum Cologne; Biblioteque Nationale, Paris; Tama University Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Museum of Modern Art, Hünfeld, Germany. MONOGRAPHS AND CATALOGUES - The Silence of the Sea, photographs and messages, texts by Joshua Sobol and A. Eilat, 2006 - 112 Portraits Front & back, catalogue, galeria FF, Lodz, Poland - Hieroglyphics of Reality, catalogue, texts by Joshua Sobol, 1996 - From ths Gut - From the Mind, catalogue, texts by Y. Safran, M. Perry - Lehmann and N. Perez, - The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1992 - Painter with a Camera, photographs, texts by J. Sobol and N. Perez, Hakkibuts Hameuhad Publishers, Tel Aviv, 1986 - Structure for a Given Interior, catalogue, text by J. Shen-Dar, Museum of Modern Art, Haifa, 1981 - Abraham Eilat, monograph by Rudolf Kreuzer, Perlinger Verlag, Vorgl, Austria,1980 - Avraham Eilat, Drawings, catalogue, text by G. Tadmor, Museum of Modern Art, Haifa, 1975 - Avraham Eilat, paintings & drawings, no text, Galerie Eremitage, Scwaz, Austria, 1969 CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE [see full reume] |