Asaph Ben-Menahem

Asaph Ben-Menahem was born in 1940 Raanana. Most of his works are drawings and woodcuts. They deal with psychological or metaphysical issues, depicted in an expressive style. Some of his woodcuts are monumentally large. His works can be found among the collections of various museums like the Metropolitan Museum (New York), Israel Museum, LACMA, Harvard University (Boston), and others.

Education
1961-1964 B.A., Philosophy and English and American Literature, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
1965-1969 MFA in painting and printmaking., Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Awards And Prizes
2008 The Jacob Pins Award for an Israeli Printmaking Artist, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Solo Exhibitions (selection)
1973 Drawings and Prints, Artists’ House, Jerusalem
1981 New Works on Paper, Debel Gallery, Jerusalem
1985 Holzschnitte, Loeb Galerie, Bern, Switzerland
1986 Holzschnitte 1984-1986, Raab Galerir, Berlin, Germany
1987 Woodcuts, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2004 Mounumental Woodcuts, Art Gallery Twenty Four, Tel Aviv

Group Exhibitions (selection in the field of printmaking)
1983 Triennial of Israeli Graphic Art, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
1988 Woodcuts, Jerusalem Artists’ House, Jerusalem
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
1997 From East, From West, From Wood: 5 Israeli Woodcut Artists, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2017 In the Body of the Wood: Winners of the Jacob Pins Prize for an Israeli Graphic Artist, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2020 Cut in Wood, Municipal Gallery, Kfar Saba