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Larry Abramson talks about his work — Zoreach/Gorea

Studio Visit // August 2018

Born in South Africa, 1954

Immigrated to Israel, 1961

Lived in Jerusalem, 1961-2011

Lives and works in Tel Aviv, since 2011

Education

1973

Foundation Course, Chelsea School of Art, London

1975-1986

Printer and Curator of Exhibitions, Jerusalem Print Workshop

1984-2002

Taught at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem

1992-1999

Chairman of the Fine Art Department, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem

1996-1999

Head of Bezalel Program for Young Artists – Master of Fine Art, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem

2000, 2003

Guest lecturer, San Francisco Art Institute

2002-2022

Professor of Art, Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, Ramat Gan

2013

Guest lecturer, Faculty of Design, HAW University, Hamburg

2013-2016

Head of the Multidisciplinary Art School, Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, Ramat Gan

2019

Guest lecturer, École supérieure des beaux-arts de Nîmes

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

1984

Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv

1986

Nevo, Aika Brown Gallery, Artists’ Studios, Jerusalem

1987

Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv

1989

Larry Abramson: Paintings, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Curator: Yigal Zalmona (catalogue)

1990

Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv

1993

Coincidences, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Curator: Ellen Ginton (catalogue)

1994

Coincidences, Galerie Hubertus Wunschik, Düsseldorf, Germany

Carobglyphics, Gallery of the Art Institute, Oranim College

1995

tsooba, Ha’Kibbutz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv; Curator: Tali Tamir (catalogue)

1996

Giornata, Noga Art Gallery, Tel Aviv

1998

ShalomShalom, Noga Art Gallery, Tel Aviv (catalogue)

1999

Impression, Refusalon Gallery, San Francisco

2001

Eventus Nocturnus, Haifa Museum of Art; Curator: Daniella Talmor (catalogue)

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

2003

1906, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

2004

The Rose of Jericho, The Jerusalem Print Workshop; Curator: Tamar Manor-Friedman (catalogue)

2005

The Pile, 2002-2004, Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabrück, Germany; Museum of Art, Ein Harod; Curators: Inge Jaehner, GaliaBar Or (catalogue)

Searching for the Ideal City, JudahL. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, California, USA; Curator: Alla Efimova

The Syrian-African Fault, NewGallery, Beit Gavriel, Kinnereth; Curator: Gideon Ofrat (catalogue)

2006

Mini Israel: 70 Models, 45 Artists, One Space – An Exhibition by Larry Abramson, Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Curator-in-charge: Amitai Mendelsohn (catalogue)

2007

Recent Paintings, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv (catalogue)

2010

Larry Abramson: Paintings 1975-2010, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Curator: Ellen Ginton (catalogue)

2011

Waxing/Waning, The Peres Center for Peace, Jaffa; Curator: Diana Dallal

2012

Spies, Gallery of the Art Institute, Oranim College

1967, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

2013

Symptoms, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

2014

Das Kleine Blumenbuch, Circle1 Gallery, Berlin

2016

Chovevei Zion, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

Spy Apter-Barrer Gallery, Ma’alot-Tarshicha; Curator: Noga Migdal (catalogue)

Botany, The Jerusalem Print Workshop, Curator: Irena Gordon (catalogue)

2018

VOLTA Art Fair, New York, with Gordon Gallery

2019

Brass Tacks, Buttons, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

2021

Go, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

2022

Signs, Gallery for Israeli Art, Kiryat Tivon; Curator: Michal Shaknai Jacobi (catalogue)

2023

Symptoms, Bursa Gallery, Multidisciplinary Art School, Shenkar, Ramat Gan; Curator: Gilad Efrat

2024

A Great Piece of Turf, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

ShalomShalom, Special exhibit at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Curator: Amitai Mendelsohn

Blue, Gordon Gallery, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions

1975

Work on Paper, Gyda Gallery, Jerusalem

1977

Marginal Papers, Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv

1978

Graphic Works by 30 Israeli Artists, University Gallery, Tel Aviv University; Curator: Mordechai Omer (catalogue)

6th Biennale 0f Graphic Art, Florence, Italy (catalogue)

Printmaking in Israel Today, The Lobby Gallery, Illinois Bell, Chicago, USA; Curator: Yona Fischer (catalogue)

1979

News I, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Curator: Sara Breitberg-Semel

AbstracteGrafiek uit Israël, Hedendaagse Kunst, Utrecht, Holland; Curator: Wouter Kotte (catalogue)

The Kadishman Connection, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Curators: Stephanie Rachum, Nurit Shilo-Cohen (catalogue)

1980

Lines into Drawing, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Curator: Meira Perry-Lehmann

1981

A Turning Point, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Curator: Sara Breitberg-Semel (catalogue)

1982

Artists' Tribute to Bertha Urdang, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Curators: Judith Spitzer, Yigal Zalmona (catalogue)

1983

17th São Paulo Biennial of Art, Brazil; Curator: Reuven Berman (catalogue)

1984

Flesh and Blood, The Jerusalem Theater; Avraham Baron Art Gallery, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva; Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art; Curator: Haim Finkelstein (catalogue)

Two Years – Qualities Accumulated, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Curator: Sara Breitberg-Semel (catalogue)

1985

El Mithos Lelo El, Artists’ House, Jerusalem; Curator: Gideon Ofrat (catalogue)

1986

Territories of Color, Israeli Pavilion, 42nd Venice Biennial; Curator: Yona Fischer (catalogue)

Art – Israel, the 1980’s, Richard Green Gallery, New York (catalogue)

1988

Fresh Paint: The Younger Generation in Israeli Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Curator: Ellen Ginton (catalogue)

It’s Possible – 24 Israeli and Palestinian Artists Unite for Peace, The Great Hall Gallery, Cooper Union, New York; Curators: Kamal Boullata, Yona Fischer (catalogue)

Artists for Human Rights, Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv

1989

5 Artists, 5 Series, Omanut La’am Travelling Exhibition; Curator: Dalia Manor (catalogue)

Jerusalem Print Workshop: A Decade of Printmaking, Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona, USA; Curator: Andrew Rush (catalogue)

1990

The Art of Description, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

1990, Ein Harod Museum of Art; Curators: Galia Bar Or, Gideon Ofrat

1991

Israeli Art Now, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Curator: Ellen Ginton (catalogue)

1992

Routes of Wandering: Nomadism, Voyages and Transitions in Contemporary Israeli Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Curator: Sarit Shapira (catalogue)

Einblicke-Ausblicke, JungeKunst aus Israel, " Opera House, Leipzig, Germany; Curators: Noa Aviram-Paritzki, Hannah Kofler (catalogue)

Works on Paper from the 70’s, Artifact Gallery, Jaffa; Curator: Sergio Edelzstein

Dreams 1 and 2, Mary Fawzi Gallery, Jaffa; Curator: Eitan Hillel

New Voices, The Barbara Scott Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida (catalogue)

1993

Subtropical: Between Figuration and Abstraction, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Curator: Ellen Ginton

Locus: Contemporary Art from Israel, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Curator: Shlomit Shakked (catalogue)

Acquisitions 1991-1993, Museum of Modern Art, Haifa; Curator: Meir Ahronson (catalogue)

1994

Separate Worlds, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Curator: Itamar Levy

The Printer’s Imprint: Twenty Years of the Jerusalem Print Workshop, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Curators: Meira Perry-Lehmann, Arik Kilemnik (catalogue)

Grosse Kunst Ausstellung, Düsseldorf, Germany (catalogue)

1995

Preview from the Rita and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Israeli Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Curators: Yigal Zalmona, Shlomit Steinberg (catalogue)

1996

Regions of Memory, The Jerusalem Print Workshop; Curator: Shlomit Steinberg (catalogue)

1997

Sharing Jerusalem – Two Capitals for Two States, Al-Wasiti Art Center, Jerusalem (catalogue)

The Ingenious Machine of Nature: Four Centuries of Art and Anatomy, " The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Curators-in-charge: Meira Perry-Lehmann, Ruth Apter-Gabriel

1998

To the East – Orientalism in the Arts in Israel, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Curators: Yigal Zalmona, Tamar Manor-Friedman (catalogue)

Kol Anot – Biblical Motives in Israeli Art, 1970-1998, The Artists’ House, Tel Aviv; Curator: Tali Tamir (catalogue)

Stains, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Curator: Sarit Shapira  

Reflections of Monet, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Curator: Barbara Shapiro

In the Name of the Land, in the Name of the Lord: Art and Realities in Jerusalem, " The Artists' House, Jerusalem; Curator: Ilan Wizgan (catalogue)

1999

Tales of the Sands – Contemporary Israeli Art, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Curators: Graeme Murray, Sarit Shapira (catalogue)

Common Ground: Contemporary Landscapes from Israel and Ohio, " Riffe Gallery, Columbus; Weston Gallery, Cincinnati; The Artists' House, Jerusalem; Curators: Nella Cassouto, David T. Johnson (catalogue)

Artfocus, Teddy Kollek Stadium, Jerusalem

4 Kunstler aus Jerusalem, P.C.C. Kunstraum, Weimar, Germany; Curator: Rudolf Grass

2000

1:1, Refusalon Gallery, San Francisco; Curator: Shmulik Krampf

Sun, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Curator: Ellen Ginton

Contemporary Landscape from Israel, Trondhjems Kunstforening, Trondheim, Norway; Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Norway

2001

Love at First Sight – The Vera, Silvia, and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Israeli Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Curator: Amitai Mendelsohn (catalogue)

A Common Thread – Artists Pay Tribute to Moshe Kupferman, Artspace Gallery, Jerusalem; Curator: Linda Zisquit

2002

Imagine – Artists for Co-existence, Umm el-Fahem Gallery

35 Israeli and Palestinian Artists against the Occupation and for a Common Tomorrow, Hagar Gallery, Jaffa; The Artists House, Jerusalem; Al-Wasiti Art Center, Jerusalem; BenGurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva

The Return to Zion: Beyond the Principle of Place, Time for Art Gallery, Tel Aviv; Curator: Gideon Ofrat (catalogue)

2003

Ruins Revisited – The Image of the Ruin in Israel 1803-2003, Time for Art Gallery, Tel Aviv; Curator: Gideon Ofrat (catalogue)

First Flowers of Israeli Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Curator: Tamar Manor-Friedman

Marked Landscapes: 'Landscape-Place' in Contemporary Israeli Art, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva; Curators: Haim Maor and students (catalogue)

2004

A Point of View, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Curator: Ellen Ginton

Prints and Artists' Books from the Jerusalem Print Workshop, " Widener Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Espacios Comunes, Fundación Tres Culturas del Mediterráneo, Pabellón Hassan II, Sevilla, Spain

2005

The New Hebrews – A Century of Art in Israel, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Curators: Doreet LeVitte Harten, YigalZalmona (catalogue)

The 80's in Israeli Art, Gallery of the Art Institute, Oranim

Etched Voices: Contemporary Artists and the Holocaust, Yad Vashem Museum, Jerusalem; Curator: Yehudit Shendar

Three Cities against the Wall: New York, Ramallah, Tel Aviv, The Artists' House, Tel Aviv (catalogue)

Tribute to the Alcove I, The Open University, Ra’anana; Curator: Alik Mishori (brochure)

November 4, 1995: Murder in Retrospective, Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv; Curators: Dana Arieli-Horowitz, Dalia Manor

2006

Etchings from the Brain, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Curator: Meira Perry-Lehmann

The Dirty Dozen, Ironi Ramla Gallery for Contemporary Art, Ramla

Pathology Report: Representations of the Damaged Body in Contemporary Israeli Art, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva; Curators: Haim Maor and students (catalogue)

Offering Reconciliation, Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan; Curators: Orna Tamir-Schestowitz, Daphna Zmora (catalogue)

2007

On a Small Scale, The Jerusalem Print Workshop; Curator: Arik Kilemnik (catalogue)

Connected, Altes Museum, Mönchengladbach, Germany; Curator: Hubertus Wunschik

Visiting Kupferman, The Kupferman Collection, Kibbutz Lochamei HaGetaot; Curator: Yona Fischer

Desert Generation – Israeli and Palestinian Artists against the Occupation, Artists’ House, Jerusalem, Kibbutz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Meneer deWit Gallery, Amsterdam; Holden Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan Gallery

2008

Checkpost: the 80’s in Israeli Art, Haifa Museum of Art, Curator: Ilana Tennenbaum (catalogue)

The Hidden Trace: Jewish Paths through Modernity, Felix-Nussbaum-Haus, Osnabrueck; Curator: Inge Jaehner (catalogue)

Art of the State: Contemporary Photography and Video Art from Israel, Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam; CCDe Werft — De Halle, Geel; De Garage, Cultuurcentrum, Mechelen; Curator: Edwardvan Voolen

Near and Apparent: Connections and Contexts from the Benno Kalev Collection, The Open Museum, Tefen Industrial Park; Curator: Benno Kalev (catalogue)

*D.I.Y. The Michael Adler Collection and Israeli Post-Minimalism in the Seventies and in Contemporary Art”, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art; Curator: Adi Englman (catalogue)

2009

Landsc®ape, Petach Tikva Museum; Curator: Sigal Barkai

Nature Nation, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem; Curator: Raphie Etgar (catalogue)

Special Edition: The Newspaper as Raw Material in Israeli Art, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, curators: Haim Maor and students (catalogue)

Family Traces, Israel Museum; Curator: Tamar 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 (catalogue)

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 (caalogue)

Vayaanunu, Artists’ House, Tel Aviv, curator: Ishai Menuchin (catalogue)

2013

Summer Exhibition, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

Magia Naturalis: Israeli Artists Study Nature, P8 Gallery, Tel Aviv; Curator: Jochai Rosen

Print Time, The Open Museum, Tefen Industrial Park; Curators: Ruthi Ofek, Irena Gordon (catalogue)

2014

Under Erasure, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Curator: Irith Hadar (catalogue)

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 (catalogue)

2016

Guides: Field Guides in the Mirror of Contemporary Israeli Art, Ben Gurion University of the Negev; Curator: Haim Maor (catalogue)

Take Painting, Petach Tikvah Museum of Art; Artist-curator: Larry Abramson (catalogue)

2017

1967 Turns 50: Wartime Art, Ein Harod Museum; curator: Dana Arieli

2018

The Map, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv; curator: Batya Donner (catalogue)

Stairway to Heaven, Morel Derfler Gallery, Jerusalem; Curator: Orit Ishay

Security Measures, Sklar Levy Gallery, Modi’in; Curator: Shirley Wegner

2019

The Case of Hiroshima, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem; curator: Raphie Etgar (catalogue)

Seeds of the Land, Israel Museum – Ticho House, Jerusalem; curator: Tami Manor-Friedman (catalogue)

The Mount: A Photographic Journey to the Temple Mount 1839-2019, Tower of David – Museum of the City of Jerusalem; curator: Dr. Shimon Lev (catalogue)

Even the Trees Bleed, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem; curator: Raphie Etgar (catalogue)

Cave, Under 1000 Gallery, Tel Aviv; curators: Limor Tamir and Yoad Bar-Noy

Memory is Home, Apter-Barrer Gallery, Ma’alot-Tarshicha; Curator: Noga Migdal

Chronicles – Haaretz Newspaper in Israeli Art, Minus 1 Gallery, Tel Aviv; Curator: Efrat Livny (catalogue)

2020

Between Syllables there is Empty Space, New Gallery, Musrara, Jerusalem; Curator: Irena Gordon

2021

Haifa Way: 70th Anniversary of Haifa Museumof Art, " Haifa Museum of Art; Curator: Kobi Ben-Meir

Reflections: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa, British Museum, London; Curator: Venetia Porter (catalogue)

On Point, Art Gallery, Seminar HaKibbutzim, Tel Aviv; Curator: Tamar Berger (catalogue)

Black, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Curator: Naama Bar-Or

Art on the Road, Flying Cargo; Curator: Ronit Reik

2022

Into the Night, Minus 1 Gallery, Tel Aviv; Curator: Efrat Livny (catalogue)

2023

Black Noise – 20 Years to the Death of Moshe Kupferman, Kupferman Collection, Lohamei HaGeta’ot Kibbutz; Curator: Irit Carmon Popper

Peace, Jewish Museum Vienna; Curators: Tom Juncker and Adina Seeger (catalogue)

Will Their Voice Be Heard, The Hostage and Families Forum, Tel Aviv; Curator: Natali Ben Ari

2024

HaOman 26: Forty Years of Creation at the Artists' Studios, Artists' Studios, Jerusalem; Curator: Hili Whartman Moyal

War and Peace: 50 Years of the Jerusalem Print Workshop, " Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Curator: Emanuela Calo

50 Years of Printmaking, Jerusalem Print Workshop; Curators: Arik Kilemnik and Merav Hamburger

Street of the Prophets – 50 Years of the Jerusalem Print Workshop and 40 Years of Ticho House, Ticho House – Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Curators: Timna Seligman and Ronit Sorek (catalogue)

Selected Prizes and Awards

1979

Young Artist Award, Culture and Art Council

Beatrice S. Kolliner Prizefor a Young Israeli Artist, The Israel Museum

1988

Hadassa and Raphael Klachkin Prize, America-Israel Cultural Foundation

1991

Jacques and Eugenie 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

2012

Year of Art Award, Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art

2023

Sandberg Prize, The Israel Museum

Books

2018

The Painter is a Spy, ed: Gannit Ankori, Hakibbutz HaMeuchad Publishing House, Tel Aviv (Hebrew)