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



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