Zvi Tolkovsky

Zvi Tolkovsky was born in 1934. During 1959-1961 he lived in Paris, where he was an assistant and printer for Yaacov Agam. When he was studying in New York, Tolkovsky became acquainted with various screenprinting techniques. Upon his return to Israel, he founded a screenprinting workshop at Bezalel, and was an active member of the multidisciplinary artists group Mashkof, as well as the group Radius. In 1970 he founded another workshop at the Tel Aviv Artists House. His works can be found among the collections of the Israel Museum, Haifa Museum, and others.

Education
1956-1959 Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design, Jerusalem
1959-1961 Paris, France
1966-1967 Art Student League, New York City, USA

Awards And Prizes
1969 Jerusalem Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Jerusalem
1990 Artist-in-residence, The Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
1994 Minister of Science and Arts Prize for Artists in the Fine Arts, Ministry of Science and the Arts
1994 The America-Israel Cultural Foundation Sharett Fund Scholarship
2004 Mordechai Ish-Shalom Life Work Prize, The Artists House, Jerusalem
2008 Prize for the Encouragement of Creative Art, Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport

Solo Exhibitions (selection)
1966 Paintings and Copper Etchings, Rina Gallery, Jerusalem
1975 Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1984 Zvi Tolkovsky and Joyce Schmidt, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
1990 Nueima Camp, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1991 Ha’ Kibbutz, Israeli Art Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1996 EX FICTION, Artists’ House, Jerusalem
2002 From Castel to Port Arthur, leopold richter/invetro galerie Hannover, Germany
2005 Reality and Fiction: Photography and Printmaking in the Works of Zvi Tolkovsky, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2005 Twenty of Seventy, Artists’ House, Jerusalem
2019 Zvi Tolkovsky: A Collected Life, City Gallery Kfar Saba

Group Exhibitions (selection in the field of printmaking)
1973 Graphic Art in Israel Today, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1973 Print Workshop 73, Tel Aviv House, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1981 Israeli Prints from the Burston Graphic Center, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
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
1990 Print Today, Artists’ House, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1991 Thirty by Forty, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
1993 Feeback – Painting / Sculpture / Print, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
1993 Homage to the Jerusalem Print Workshop, Shaar Zion Library, Beit Ariella, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1994 Special Reserve, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
1994 The Printer’s Imprint: Twenty Years with the Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2000 The Print and the Poem: Artists’ Book Exhibition, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2001 Drawing Aspects in Print, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2006 Three exhibitions of Etching works, The Negev Museum of Art, Be’er Sheva
2010 10 Artists’ Books, 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
2014 Workshop Myth: Four Decades. Body, Place, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2017 The Nature of Drawing / The Paper’s Calling, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2018 No pasarán: Eighty years of the Spanish Civil War, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem