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AVRAHAM EILAT, ARTIST

Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, 1939. 1960 – 1978 member of kibbutz Shamir in the Upper Galilee Artist, educator and curator. Works in various fields of visual arts: drawing, etching, photography, installation, video and sculpture

Co-founder and chairman of Pyramida, Centre for Contemporary Art, Haifa, Lives with his spouse Margol Guttman in En Hod, works in his studio in Wadi Salib, Haifa, and in En Hod, Israel


 * 1985-1987 Head of Photography Dept. Wizo Academy of Design, Haifa, Israel
 * 1989-1991 Curator of photography, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
 * 1986     Co founder of The First Israeli Biennale of Photography, Ein Harod
 * 1995-1999 Director of Pyramida Center of contemporary Art
 * 2000-2001 Director and chief curator of The Israeli Museum of Photography, Tel Hai, Israel
 * 2003-2009 Director of Pyramida Center of Contemporary Art, Wadi Salib, Haifa
 * Recently: curator of visual arts for the National Maritime Museum, Haifa


 * Art studies


 * 1962-5 High School of Painting, Tel Aviv, diploma studies under Arie Margoshilski
 * 1966-7 Studied etchings at Atelier 17, Paris, under W.S. Hayter,
 * 1970-1 St. Martin's School of Art, London, post graduate studies: sculpture under Antony Caro, experimental films under Malcolm Le Grice


 * Selected Awards and grants


 * 2004 Israeli Ministry of education and Culture Prize
 * 1997 Artist in Residence, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, New York
 * 1989 "Premio Cervo", Italy


 * Selected Solo exhibitions


 * 2005 Psychophysical Time, galeria Wschodnia, Lodz, Poland
 * 2005 The Silence of the Sea, The Mational Matitime Museum, Haifa, Israel
 * 2004 Suspicious Symptoms, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
 * 2003 Mortal, Pyramida, Center for Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel
 * 2000 112 Portraits Front and Back, Galeria FF, Lodz, Poland
 * 1992 From the Gut – From the Mind, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
 * 1981 Structures for a Given Interior, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel


 * Selected group exhibitions


 * 2009 Photography from Israel, Kultur Bahnhof Eller, Dusseldorf, Germany
 * 2008 Twisted Reality, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel
 * 2008 The International Triennale of Contemporary Art, National Gallery, Prague
 * 2006 Video Zero – Performing the Body, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
 * 2006 The Image of God, The Isrtael Museum, Jerusalem
 * 2006 New Territories, De Hallen, Brugge, Belgium
 * 2004 Video Zero – Towards Cinema, Haifa Museum Of Art, Israel
 * 2003 Video Zero – Communication Interference, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
 * 2001 Jewish Artists on the Edgde, Yeshiva University Museum, New York, USA
 * 1999 1st International Triennale of Installations, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
 * 1998 Milestones – Israeli Sculpture 1948-1998, The Open Museum, Tefen, Israel
 * 1998 The Bridge, International art event, Melbourne, Australia
 * 1987 Vom Landschaftsbild zur Spurensicherung, Ludwig Museum, Cologne,Germany


 * Awards & Grants


 * 2004  Ministry of Education and Culture prize, Israel
 * 1997  Artist in Residence grant, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, New york, USA
 * 1995  The Haifa foundation prize, Israel
 * 1989  Premio Cervo, Brindisi, Italy
 * 1970  Grant for studies abroad, The Israel-America foundation, Israel
 * 1962  Davidson Award, Hakibbutz Ha'Artzi, Israel


 * Catalogues & Books


 * Fear, Artist Book, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem, Israel
 * The Silence of The Sea, catalogue recording exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, Haifa, Israel, texts by Joshua Sobol *and Avraham Eilat, 2006
 * Suspicious Symptoms, catalogue, text by Shlomit Shaked, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art,Tel Aviv, 2004
 * Mortal, catalogue, text by Carole Naggar, Pyramida Center for Art, Haifa, 2003
 * The Armchair, artist book, text by J.Sobol, a numbered edition of 120 copies,2002
 * 112 Portraits Front & Back, catalogue, Galeria FF, Lodz, Poland, 2000
 * Hieroglyphics of Reality, catalogue, texts by J.Sobol & A.Eilat, Tel Aviv, 1996
 * From the Gut – From the Mind, catalogue, texts by Y. Safran, M.Perry-Lehman and
 * N. Perez, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1992
 * A Painter with A Camera, photographs, texts by J.Sobol and Nissan Perez, Hakibbutz
 * Structures for a Given Interior, catalogue, text by Yehudit Shen-dar,  Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa 1981
 * Avraham Eilat, by Rudolf Kreuzer, Perlinger Verlag, Vorgl, Austria, 1980
 * Avraham Eilat - Drawings, catalogue, text by G.Tadmor, Haifa Museum of Art, 1975
 * Avraham Eilat, catalogue, no text, Galerie Eremitage, Schwaz, Austria, 1969


 * more details at
 * www.eilatart.com