Avraham Eilat (b. 1939)

Avraham Eilat was born in 1939 in Tel Aviv. As a young artist he studied painting with Arieh Allweil. During 1960-1976 he was a member of Kibbutz Shamir. In 1966 he traveled to France, where he studied etching with W. S. Hayter. In the 1970s he began experimenting also in avant-garde photography and cinema. His early works in etching are of an abstract nature. Eilat’s later works – from the 1980s onwards – include apocalyptic landscape depictions or anonymous figures engaged in labor, inspired by Egyptian art. Lives and works in Ein Hod. His works can be found among the collections of the Israel Museum; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Haifa Museum of Art; Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod; the French National Library (Paris), and Ludwig Museum (Cologne).

Education
1962-1965 High School for Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1966-1967 Atelier 17, Paris, France (under W.S. Hayter)
1970-1971 St Martin’s School of Art, London, UK

Awards And Prizes
1962 Dvora Davidson Foundation Prize for Art, Kibbutz Artzi Federation
1970 Sharett Scholarship for Advanced Studies Abroad, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
1989 The Primo Cervo Prize, Brindisi, Italy
1995 Haifa Fund Prize, Haifa Municipality, Haifa
1997 Scholarship for a guest artist, Department of Photography, New York University, New York, USA
2003 Prize for the Encouragement of Creative Art, Ministry of Education and Culture

Solo exhibition (selection)
1974 Drawings – Prints, Graphics 3, Haifa
1975 Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
1978 Drawings Photographs, Mabat Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1990 Collage Drawings, Noga – Art Gallery, Herzliya
1992 Avraham Eilat: From the Gut – From the Mind, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1994 Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod
2004 Suspicious Symptoms – Avraham Eilat: Drawing between Line and Stain, 1974-2004, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2005 Landscapes of Void, Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2008 It’s Not All Black, Yair Art Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2017 Hanina Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2019 Trench Fever, Hacubia, Gallery for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem

Group exhibitions (selection in the field of print)
1973 Graphic Art in Israel Today, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1979 The Israeli Grafotec, Shaar Zion Library, Beit Ariella, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1983 Contemporary Graphic-Art in Israel, Mounting Exhibition, USA
1983 Triennial of Israeli Graphic Art, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
1994 The Gottesman Etching Center, Kibbutz Cabri
2005 Red Flag, Wolfgang Meyer Etching Workshop, Kibbutz Nirim
2008 In Conflict, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2010 10 Artists’ Books, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2013 Print Time: Works from the Jerusalem Workshop and the Gottesman Center, The Open Museum, Tefen Industrial Park
2014 Workshop Myth: Four Decades. Body, Place, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2018 No pasarán: Eighty years of the Spanish Civil War, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2018 Dialogue: Sidon Rothenberg and the Print Workshop Artists, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem