| אברהם אילת Born in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Lectured at the Haifa College of Design and at the faculty of architecture, Technion, Haifa.Founder of The First Israeli Photography Biennale. Co founder of Pyramida - Centre for Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel. Directed the Open Museum of Photography in Tel Hai, and was curator of photography at the Haifa Museum of Art. Lives in Ein Hod with his spouse Margol Guttman.Works in his studio in Pyramida and in Ein Hod,Israel, Dusseldorf, Germany and Paris, France. |
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| ART STUDIES | ||
| High School of Painting, Tel Aviv Atelier 17, Paris St. Martin's School of Art, London |
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| AWARDS AND GRANTS | ||
| 2003 - The Ministry of Education and Culture award, Israel 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 |
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| SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS | ||
| 2010 | - | The Fear of What is Suddenly Too Late, Galerie 21, Cologne, Germany |
| 2009 | - | Scratches, the gallery of the photography department at the The Neri Bloomfield Academy of Design and Education, Haifa, Israel |
| 2008 | - | "It's Not All Black", Yair art gallery, Tel Aviv |
| 2007 | - | "Diary of a Samurai", Artists studios house, Dusseldorf, Germany |
| - | histories, lochamei hagetaot gallery, kibbutz Lochamei Hagetaot, Israel |
| 2006 | - | "Tmunat Machzor", The Okashi Museum of Arta, Acre, Israel |
| 2005 | - | "The Silence of the Sea", The National maritime Museum, Haifa, Israel |
| - | "Psychophysical Time", Galeria Wschodnia, Lodz, Poland |
| 2004 | - | "Suspicious Symptoms", The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (cat.), curator: Shlomit Shaked |
| 2003 | - | "MORTAL", Pyramida Center for Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel (cat.) |
| 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.) |
| - | Galeria Krzystofory, Krakow, Poland |
| 1992 | - | From the Gut - from the Mind, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem ,Israel (cut.), curators: Meira Perry-Lehman & Nissan Perez |
| 1981 | - | Structures for a Given Interior, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel (cat.) curator: Yehudith Shen-Dar |
| - | Ein Harod Museum of Art, Israel |
| 1975 | - | Museum of Modern Art, Haifa ,Israel (cat.) curator: Gavriel Tadmor |
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| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | ||
| 2010 | - | "Scrolls", Kupferman's House, Lochamei Hagetaot, Israel |
| - | Brown - Earth, Um-El Fahem art gellery, Israel |
| - | "Searching for God", The Ohio State University, Kuhn Fine Arts Gallery, USA |
| - | Artists Books, The Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem |
| 2009 | - | "Fotografie Aus Israel" , Kultur Bahnhof Eller, Dusseldorf, Germany (cat.) |
| - | "Confrontation" , Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem, Israel (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.) |
| - | "The Art of Persuation", Westchester Community Colleg Art Gallery, New York |
| - | "Nowhere" [Shumakom], Pyramida Center for Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel |
| 2007 | - | "Traces", The Third Bienalle for Drawing in Israel , Artists House, Jerusalem (cat.) |
| - | "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.) |
| - | "Ein Jahr - 34 Positionen - 34 Raume", Museum of Modern Art, Hunfeld, Germany |
| 2006 | - | "The Divine Image" , The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (cat.) |
| - | "The Intelligible Non-violent Art", Atlas Sztuki gallery, Lodz, Poland |
| - | "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.) |
| - | "Illness Report" , Ben Gurion University art gallery, Beer-Sheva, Israel (cat.) |
| - | "An Issue of Disagreement", Pyramida Center for Contemporary Art, Haifa |
| 2004 | - | "Towards Cinema" - Videostoria series chapter ll , Haifa Museum of Art, Israel (cat.) |
| 2003 | - | "Video Zero - Communication Interferences", Haifa Museum of Art, Israel (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; Israel |
| 2000 | - | "Wish List", The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel |
| 1999 | - | 1st International Triennale of Installation, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel (cat.) |
| 1998 | - | "Milestones", Israeli Sculpture 1948-1998 , The Open Museum, Tefen, Israel (cat.) |
| - | "The Bridge", Construction in Process VI, International Art Symposium, Melbourne, Australia, 1997 |
| 1997 | - | 4th Sculpture Biennale, Ein Hod, Israel (cat.) |
| 1996 | - | "In Paradise", Installations, Pyramida Center for Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel |
| 1995 | - | "Memory and Obsession", Artist's House, Jerusalem (cat.) |
| - | "Hermit 4", international art meeting, Plasy, Czech Republic (cat.) |
| 1994 | - | "Focus on Industry" , Photograps, Ramat Gan Museum for Israeli Art (cat.) |
| 1992 | - | 10th Norwegian International Print Triennale, 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, Israel (cat.) |
| - | "Architecture on Paper", The Israel Museum, Jerusalem |
| 1988 | - | "Modern Drawings - New Approaches", Museum of Modern Art, Haifa, Israel (cat.) |
| - | "Sky Line", Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel (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 |
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| PUBLIC COLLECTIONS | ||
| In Israel: The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art, Haifa; Ein Harod Museum of Art, private collections Abroad: Ludwig Museum Cologne; Biblioteque Nationale, Paris; Tama University Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Museum of Modern Art, Hünfeld, Germany |
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| MONOGRAPHS AND CATALOGUES | ||
| - The Silence of the Sea, photographs and messages, texts by Joshua Sobol and A. Eilat, 2006 - Suspicious Symptoms, catalogue, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Text by Shlomit Shaked, 2004 - 112 Portraits Front & back, catalogue, galeria FF, Lodz, Poland, 2000 - Hieroglyphics of Reality, catalogue, texts by Joshua Sobol, 1996 - אברהם אילת From ths Gut - From the Mind, catalogue, texts by Y. Safran, M. Perry - Lehmann and N. Perez The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1992 - אברהם אילת Painter with a Camera, photographs, texts by J. Sobol and N. Perez, Hakkibutz 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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| CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE | ||
| [see full reume] |