Larry Abramson

Larry Abramson was born in 1954 in South Africa and immigrated to Israel in 1961. During 1975-1986 he was a master-printer and curator at the Jerusalem Print Workshop. In his etchings and screenprints he explores structures of society by quoting and appropriating landscape and ideological symbols of illustrative conventions. His works can be found among the collections of the Israel Museum, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Haifa Museum and others.

Education
1973-1974 Chelsea School of Art, London, UK

Awards And Prizes
1978 Beatrice Kolliner Prize for a Young Israeli Artist, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1988 The America-Israel Cultural Fund Scholarship
1991 Jacques and Eugenie Ohana Prize for a Young Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
1993 The America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Sharett Fund Scholarship for a Young Artist
1998 Prize, Ministry of Education and Culture
2007 The Mendel and Eva Pundik Foundation Prize for an Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv

Solo exhibitions (selectiont)
1989 Larry Abramson: Paintings, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1991 Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2001 Larry Abramson: Eventus Nocturnus, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
2004 The Rose of Jericho, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2005 Larry Abramson – The Pile, 2002-2004, Mishkan Museum of Art, Kibbutz Ein Harod
2005 Larry Abramson – The Pile, 2002-2004, Felix Nussbaum Museum, Osnabrück, Germany
2005 Larry Abramson: Searching for the Ideal City, The Magnes Museum, Berkeley, California, USA
2007 Larry Abramson, Recent Paintings, 2004 – 2007, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2010 Larry Abramson- Paintings 1975-2010, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2012 1967, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2016 Larry Abramson: Botany, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem

Group exhibitions (selection in the field of print)
1978 Biennial of Print, Florence, Italy
1979 The Israeli Grafotec, Shaar Zion Library, Beit Ariella, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1981 Israeli Prints from the Burston Graphic Center, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1983 Triennial of Israeli Graphic Art, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
1983 New Prints, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
1988 Silkscreen in Art and Industry, Jerusalem Artists’ House, Jerusalem
1989 Etchings of Poems, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
1991 Back to Painting in Israeli Prints, Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1993 Prints – New Acquisitions, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1993 Homage to the Jerusalem Print Workshop, Shaar Zion Library, Beit Ariella, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1994 The Printer’s Imprint: Twenty Years with the Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1996 Prints – New in the Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1997 Sadnat Hahedpes, Jerusalem, Faculty of Arts – Hamidrasha, Beit Berl College
2000 The Print and the Poem: Artists’ Book Exhibition, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2001 New Prints, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2001 Drawing Aspects in Print, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2002 35 Prints – 35 Years of Occupation, Hagar Art Gallery, Jaffa
2003 35 Prints – 35 Years of Occupation, Jerusalem Artists’ House, Jerusalem
2004 Printing Color, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2005 Red Flag, Wolfgang Meyer Etching Workshop, Kibbutz Nirim
2006 Etchings from the Brain, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2006 2006 Three exhibitions of Etching works, The Negev Museum of Art, Be’er Sheva
2007 On a Small Scale, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2008 Internal Landscapes, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2008 Flora in the Workshop, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2010 More then One, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2012 Boiling Blood, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2012 Aspects of Black, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2013 Print Time: Works from the Jerusalem Workshop and the Gottesman Center, The Open Museum, Tefen Industrial Park
2013 Boxes, Etchings and Poems, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2015 Printer’s Proof, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2016 New Series, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2018 Contemporary Local Print, Jerusalem