Michael Kovner (b. 1948)

Michael Kovner was born in 1948 on Kibbutz Ramat HaHoresh. He lives and works in Jerusalem and New York. Most of his works are paintings and drawings. His screenprints from the 1980s depicted buildings and building facades. His works from the 1990s onward, most of them etchings, describe landscapes and the urban experience from his own personal observation and interpretation. His works can be found among the collections of the Museum of Jewish Art (New York), Israel Museum, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Haifa Museum, Beit HaNassi (Jerusalem).

Education
1963-65 Painting with Yohanan Simon, Gan Shmuel
1965-1967 Avni Institute, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1972-1975 New York Studio School, NYC, USA

Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2002 Journey, 1978-2001, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan
2007 Gilboa Tabor, Mishkan Museum of Art, Kibbutz Ein Harod
2007 Wadi Tabor, Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2009 In the Face of the Cliff, Ben Gurion University, Be’er Sheva
2010 Observations, Artists’ House, Jerusalem
2011 New York Landscapes, Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2020 Mishkan Museum of Art, Kibbutz Ein Harod

Group Exhibitions (selection in the field of printmaking)
1981 Israeli Prints from the Burston Graphic Center, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1982 The Print Art in Israel, Omanot Laam, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1989 Etchings of Poems, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
1991 Back to Painting in Israeli Prints, Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1994 The Printer’s Imprint: Twenty Years with the Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1995 Only Landscapes, Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2001 Drawing Aspects in Print, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2005 Working Proofs, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2007 On a Small Scale, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
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 Boxes, Etchings and Poems, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2018 Dialogue: Sidon Rothenberg and the Print Workshop Artists, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem