Arik Kilemnik

Arik Kilemnik was born in 1935 in Rehovot. In the late 1950s he began his art studies at Bezalel, where he studied printmaking with artists such as Jakob Eisenscher, Isidor Ascheim, Jacob Steinhardt, Moshe Tamir, Jacob Pins and Jossi Stern. During 1963-1970 he resided in New York, where he studied art and specialized in the various printmaking techniques. After completing his studies he taught at the Cooper Union and founded a screenprinting workshop there. In 1974 he founded the Jerusalem Print Workshop, which serves many Israeli and international artists, who are invited to create in the various printmaking techniques. Kilemnik has developed a number of unique printing techniques during his years at the JPW, the most prominent of which is white ground alba-tinta (or “Jerusalem alba-tinta”).

Education
1958-1961 Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem
1964 Pratt Institute of Art, NYC, New York, USA
1964-1966 Brooklyn Museum Art School, Brooklyn, New York, USA
1966-1967 Art Student League, NYC, New York, U.S.A.

Awards And Prizes
1961 Herman Struck Prize for Printing, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
1997 Mordechai Ish-Shalom Life Work Prize, The Artists House, Jerusalem
2001 The The Jerusalem Foundation Award
2016 Life Enterprise in Visual Arts Prize, Ministry of Culture and Sport

Solo Exhibitions
1963 Exhibition of Paintings by Arik Kilemnik, Artists’ House, Jerusalem
1971 Arik Kilemnik – Paintings, Prints, Artists’ House, Jerusalem
1972 Arik Kilemnik: Drawings, Prints, Graphics 3, Haifa
1981 Artists’ House, Jerusalem
2015 Ithaca, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem

Group Exhibitions (selection in the field of printmaking)
1975 Graphic Art 25, Traveling Exhibition, Israel
1979 The Israeli Grafotec, Shaar Zion Library, Beit Ariella, Tel Aviv
1989 1967: The Amiricanization of Israeli Art, Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv
2007 On a Small Scale, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2012 Boiling Blood, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2018 No pasarán: Eighty years of the Spanish Civil War, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem