AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

1955Born Tel Aviv, Israel

1959Moved to London, UK

1974Founding member of Kibbutz (collective), Israel

1974Army Service (medic)

1977-78Worked in Cairo, Egypt

1978-82B.F.A. Bezalel Art Academy, Jerusalem, Israel

1984-86M.F.A. Pratt Institute, New York, USA

1989-90Lived in East Berlin, Germany

1992-00Lived in Tel Aviv, Israel

2000-02Lived and worked in Abuja, Nigeria

2003-05Lived and worked in Canberra ACT, Australia

2006-08Lived and worked in Bangkok, Thailand

2008-11Lived and worked in Helsinki, Finland

2011-15Lived and worked in Pretoria, South Africa

2015-19Lived and worked in Hong Kong

2019-presentCurrently living and working in in Vancouver, Canada & selling privately

EXHIBITIONS

1982Group show “The Other World” Jerusalem Artists House, Jerusalem, Israel

1982Group show under the auspices of The American-Israel Cultural Foundation, Helena Rubinstein Museum of Modern Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

1983Group show “Here and Now” The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

1984Group show, Gallery 90, Tel Aviv, Israel

1984Group show, “Catastrophe”, Jerusalem Theatre, Jerusalem, Israel

1985Group show, “Myth Without God”, Jerusalem Artists House, Jerusalem, Israel

1986Group show, Bezalel Academy Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel

1987One-man show, Ramat Gan Museum of Art, Ramat Gan, Israel

1987Group show, Gallery Rega, Tel Aviv, Israel

1988Group show “Israeli Artists Solidarity Show for Palestinian Self Determination”, Gallery Rega, Tel Aviv, Israel

1988Group show “Leading Israeli Artists for AIDS Research”, Gallery Richter, Jaffa, Israel

1989Group show/happening, New Visions Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

1990Designed nationally distributed poster “The Names Project-The Israel Tour”

2004Group show, Stephanie Burns Fine Arts, Canberra, AUS

2004Fundraising Exhibition for the Erylden Trust, Sydney, AUS

2005Group show “Hommage à Cézanne,” Stephanie Burns Fine Arts, Canberra, AUS

2005Group show, Gallery Caviar, Cooma, New South Wales, AUS

2007One man show “Elective Affinities” Catherine Schubert Fine Arts Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand

2008One man show “Through a Glass Darkly” Patravadi Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand

2011One man show Hotel Radisson Blue, The Mezzine Gallery, Helsinki

2015One man show Da Vinci Gallery, Wan Chai, Hong Kong

AWARDS / GRANTS

1979The Herman Struck Prize for Outstanding Printmaking in Israel

1980The America-Israel Cultural Foundation Grant

1981The America-Israel Cultural Foundation Grant

1985/86Pratt Institute Foreign Student Grant for Excellence in Academic Performance

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (ONLY AS RELATED TO THE ARTS)

1978-79Art therapy for disturbed children, Jerusalem, Israel

1979-82Teaching assistantship, Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem, Israel

1984-86Teaching assistantship, Pratt Institute, New York, USA

1985-86Internship at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA

1986-89Art teacher at the Tel Aviv School of the Arts, Tel Aviv, Israel

1991-93Established art program and headed the department at the Gavrieli school in Tel Aviv, Israel

1993Directed joint environmental art project for Arab & Jewish school children in Israel (under the aegis of “Interns for Peace”)

1993-97Taught private art classes

1997-99Taught English “through art” at a school for disadvantaged children in Tel-Aviv, Israel

2000-presentTeaching private art classes and selling privately