Ya’acov Dorchin

Ya’acov Dorchin was born in 1946 in Haifa. After completing his military service he began studying art as an autodidact. He initially focused on painting. After meeting the German artist Joseph Beuys, he turned to sculpting and drawing. He is the 2011 Israel Prize laurate for sculpture.

Awards And Prizes
1985 Oscar Hendler Prize, Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot
1989 Prize, Ministry of Education and Culture
1993 The Nahum Gutman Prize for Painting and Sculpture, The Histadrut Labor Federation
1996 The Israel Discount Bank Prize for an Israeli Artist, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2000 Aptowitzer Foundation Award for Distinguished Achievement in Contemporary Creative Arts, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
2004 EMET Prize for Science, Art and Culture, Prime Minister’s Office, Jerusalem
2006 Eugene Kolb Prize for Israeli Graphic Arts, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2011 Israel Prize for Sculpture

Solo Exhibitions (selection in the field of printmaking and drawing)
1997 Mabat Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1983 Graphics 3, Haifa
1984 Etchings to Poems by Meir Wieseltier, Meimad Katan, Art Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1986 Drawings, Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1992 Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2009 Yaacov Dorchin: Iron Folds and Line Gestures, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2013 Wandering Angel / Sculptures and Drawings 2011-2013, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo

Group Exhibitions (selection in the field of printmaking)
2006 Orlando, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2006 Etchings from the Brain, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2007 On Paper: Prints by Israeli Artists, Ashdod Art Museum
2011 Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2013 Print Time: Works from the Jerusalem Workshop and the Gottesman Center, The Open Museum, Tefen Industrial Park