Ra’anan Levy

Ra’anan Levy was born in 1954 in Jerusalem. He was first exposed to the world of printmaking in his youth, through the Israel Museum print collection. In the second half of the 1970s, he studied printmaking in Israel. Since then, etching has become a regular medium in his work. His figurative works depict portraits of landscape imagery based on observational drawing, combining a variety of techniques which intensify the emotional dimension of the image. Since 1987 he has been living and working in France. His works can be found among the collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris), Israel Museum, and Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

Education
1975-1977 Academia di Belle Arti, Florence, Italy
1976-1978 Santa Reparata International Schoo of Art, Graphic Art Florence, Italy
1979 Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Awards And Prizes
1982-1984, Dutch Ministry Grant, Amsterdam, NL
1987-1989, Artist-in-residence, The Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
1995 Eugene Kolb Prize for Israeli Graphic Arts, Tel Aviv-Yafo Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2014 Chevalier des Arts et Lettres, France

Solo Exhibitions (selection)
1992 Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
Ra’anan Levy: Drawings
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1997 Ra‘anan Levy: Paintings and Works on Paper
Marion Nagar & Crane Kalman Gallery, London, UK
2002 Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2008 Sinks and Spaces
Janos Gat Gallery, New York, USA
2013 Intérieurs, Galerie Maeght, Paris, France
2016 Fata Morgana
Galerie Hervé Lancelin, Luxembourg
2020 L’épreuve du miroir
Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France

Group Exhibitions (selection in the field of printmaking)
1989 Etchings of Poems, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
1991 Back to Painting in Israeli Prints, Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1991 Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1993 Feeback – Painting / Sculpture / Print, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
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
2005 Working Proofs, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2007 On a Small Scale, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2009 Spring 2009, The Gottesman Etching Center, Cabri
2010 The Gottesman Etching Center, Cabri
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
2019 Dialogue: Sidon Rothenberg and the Print Workshop Artists, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem