Alima (1932-2013)

Alima Rita was born in 1932 in Nesher. In the 1960s, after completing her art studies, she moved to Paris. In 1965 she returned to Israel. In the 1970s, printmaking became a central medium in her artistic work. She studied lithography at Tamarind Institute in New Mexico, United States, and attended the Burston Graphic Center in Jerusalem. She created mostly in lithography and screenprint until the 1990s. These works were distinguished by bright colors, geometric shapes and limited form. During 1975-1978 she directed the print workshop of the Artist’s House in Tel Aviv and taught printmaking at HaMidrasha and other schools. Since 2014 the Mishkan Museum of Art in Ein Harod has been awarding the Alima Prize for the Art of Printmaking in her memory.

Education
1953-1957 Avni Institute, Tel Aviv-Yafo

Awards And Prizes
1960 Prize for Graphic Art, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
1961 Education Scholarship for Studies Abroad, Norman Foundation
1978 Scholarship from the Tamarind Institute, New Mexico, U.S.A.
1987 Eugene Kolb Prize for Israeli Graphic Arts, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2008 Prize for the Encouragement of Creative Art, Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport

Solo exhibition (selection in the field of print)
1972 Alima: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1981 Sara Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem
1991 Prints, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan
1995 Etchings, Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2005 Four Seasons, Etchings, Ghetto Fighters’ House Art Gallery, Kibbutz Lochamei Hagetaot
2009 Between frame and window, Simon and Marie Jaglom Pavilion, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2011 A Form in the Landscape, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem

Group exhibition (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
1981 Israeli Prints from the Burston Graphic Center, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1983 Contemporary Graphic-Art in Israel, Mounting Exhibition, USA
1986 Landscape and Nature: Contemporary Israeli Prints from the Collection of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, High Court of Australia, Canberra, Australia
1988 Not Every print is a Lithograph, Jerusalem Artists’ House, Jerusalem
1990 Print Today, Artists’ House, Tel Aviv-Yafo
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
2004 Printing Color, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2004 Exhibition 35: New Prints, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2006 Three exhibitions of Etching works, The Negev Museum of Art, Be’er Sheva
2007 On a Small Scale, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2009 Master Printer: Djanogly Print Workshop, Jerusalem, The Open University, Raanana
2010 AC118R Water-Based Red Idealogical Colour, Wolfgang Meyer Etching Workshop, Kibbutz Nirim
2011 May 1st in Nirim, Wolfgang Meyer Etching Workshop, Kibbutz Nirim
2013 Print Time: Works from the Jerusalem Workshop and the Gottesman Center, The Open Museum, Tefen Industrial Park
2016 TziUrim Gallery, Kibbutz Urim
2018 Lithography Notebook: A tribute to Israel Hirshfeld, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem