Born: Israel 1951
Studied privately
Solo Exhibitions
2000 - Hebrew Union College New York, N.Y.
1997 - The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
1995 - National Jewish Museum,Washington D.C.
1993 - Haifa Museum of Modern Art, Haifa, Israel.
1992 - Klarfeld Perry Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1985 - La Mama’s La Galleria Second Classe, New York, N.Y.
1984 - La Mama’s La Galleria Second Classe, New York, N.Y.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2005 - “The Human Landscape” Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
2004 - “The Peekskill Project” Peekskill, NY
2004 - “How to teach paintings to a dead rabbit” Kalisher Gallery, Tel Aviv
2004 - “Art from the collection” Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli art
2003 - “The Art of Aging” Hebrew Union College, New York, N.Y.
2002 - “International Juried Show” Summit, NJ (Honorable Mention)
01-02 - “Breaking the Mold: The Artists of Israel” Krasdale Gallery, The Bronx, N.Y.
99-00 - “Artists respond to Crimes of the Wehrmact” Cooper Union Gallery New York, N.Y.
1999 - “Veiled Time” Brookdale College, Lincroft, N.J.
1997 - “I’zkur” ((non)remembering) Ami Steinitz Contemporary Art. Tel Aviv, Israel
1996 - “Windows: Seven cross-section subjects in contemporary Israeli art” Israel Museum, Jerusalem,
1995 - “After Auschwitz: responses to the Holocaust in contemporary art” Royal Festival Hall, London,
Manchester City Art Gallery, Great Britain. Altes Rathouse, Potsdam, Germany
1994 - “Recent Acquisitions” Museum of Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
1994 - “Drop Dead Painting” Art Initiatives New York, N.Y.
1993 - “Acquisitions 1991-1993”, Haifa Museum, Israel.
1991 - “Figures and Faces”, Klarfeld Perry Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1987 - “The Art of the Second Generation”, Queensboro Community College, Bayside, N.Y.
1985 - “The Figure as an Image of the Psyche”, The sculpture Center, New York, N.Y.
1984 - New York Academy of Art, New York, N.Y.
1981 - 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1981 - “Emerging Artists”, The Alternative Museum, New York, N.Y.
1980 - “Fourth Annual Competition of Small Works”, 80 Washington Sq. Galleries, New York, N.Y. (Juror’s Award).
Public Collections
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y
The Jewish Museum, New York, N.Y.
The New York Public Library New York, N.Y.
The Queens Museum of Art, New York, N.Y.
The New Orleans Museum of Art
The Rhode Island School of Design Museum
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
The Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel.
The Haifa University Gallery, Israel
The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
Selected Bibliography
Monica Bohm-Duchen, “The Uses and Abuses of Photography in Holocaust-Related Art” Indiana University Press 2003
Frederick Ted Castle, Art in America, March 2001
D. Dominick Lombardi, The New York Times, Westchester E Dec. 30, 2001
Matthew Baigell, Artist and Identity in Twentieth-Century America, Cambridge University Press 2001
Peter Scot “Crimes Against Humanity” Zigmagazine 13, Fall 2000
William Zimmer, “Veiled Time” The New York Times,NJ Feb. 21, ‘99
Matthew Baigell, “Jewish American Artists and the Holocaust” Rutgers University Press, ‘97,
Sue Hubbard, “After Auschwitz” Contemporary Art, winter ‘95/96 U.K. vol. 3 number 1
Ori Z. Soltes, “Isolation and interconnection”, Catalogue, 95
Monica Bohm-Duchen, “Fifty Years On” “After Auschwitz: Responses to the Holocaust in Contemporary Art.”
Lund Humphries Publishers, U.K. 1995. p.104 Artist’s statement p.153
Gerrit Henry, Review of one man show, Art in America, June ’93
Print Collectors Newsletter, Sept-Oct ‘93
Donald Kuspit, “The Abandoned Nude” Catalogue, ’92
Adam McGovern, Review of one man show, Cover Magazine, April ‘92
William Zimmer, Review of one man show, Arts Magazine, Nov ‘85
Michael Brenson, “The Figure as Image of the Psyche,” The New York Times, Nov ‘85
Frederick Ted Castle, Review of one man show, Art in America, Nov ‘84
Uzi Tsur, “ How to teach pictures to a dead hare” Haaretz, February 2004
- (as writer) “A Nice Holocaust, Without Victims and Without Horror” Studio art magazine, Aug. 2002
Adam Baruch,”Where is the Israeli Art” Maariv, April 29, 98
Meir Ahronson, “..The Fear Rising From the Works”, Catalogue The Museum of Israeli Art, May, 97
Naomi Siman Tov, “To Reinvestigate Symbols of Evil” Ha’aretz Daily Newspaper, April 15, 97
Naomi Aviv, “The Black Mystery of What Happened in Europe” Shishi Magaz,Ap 95
Itamar Levy, “In the Regions of the Normal Art,” Ha’aretz Daily Newspaper, January 29, ‘93
Haim Maor, “Light and Bones,” Al-Hamishmar, January 15, ‘93
Michael Sgan-Cohen, “Touching the Essence” Catalogue, Haifa Museum, ‘92
Meir Ahronson, “Romantic Means in the Age of Information”, Catalogue, Haifa Museum, ‘92
Emanuel Bar-Kadma, “Uprooted” Yediot Aharonot, December 17, ‘92
Haim Maor, “Yellow Star at Night,” (Interview) Studio Magazine, Dec.’9
Michael Sgan-Cohen, “A Man is Slowly Shut Inside Skin and Bones,” kol ha’ir Jerusalem, April ‘89