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​Lea Avital

Born in Israel, 1974. Lives and works in Tel-Aviv, Israel

 

Education

2003 - 2005

Postgraduate Program, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Tel-Aviv

2001

Student Exchange Program, The Cooper Union For The Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY, USA

1998 - 2002

BFA Magna Cum Laude, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem

 

Grants

2009

Young Artist Award, Ministry of Culture, Science and Sports of Israel

2002 - 2006

America-Israel Cultural Foundation Prize, Sharett Scholarship for young Israeli Artists

2006

Oded Messer Prize for Young Artist, Janko-Dada Museum, Ein-Hod

2004

Young Artist Award, Ministry of Culture, Science and Sports of Israel

2004

The Rich Foundation, Prize for Excellency in Studies

2002

Special Achievements Prize & Award, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem

 

Solo Exhibitions

2020-2021

Nude, Uri & Rami Nehoshtan Museume, Ashdot Yaacov, curator: Smadar Keren

2015

Man Without Qualities, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, curator: Jossef Krispel

2011

Daily News, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv

2008

The Rope, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv

2007

My Heart is Awake, Janco-Dada Museum, Ein-Hod, curator: Iris Mendel

2004

Untitled Exhibition, Sadnaot Ha’amanim, Tel Aviv

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2016

Post - postmodernism ≠ Utopia, Haifa museum of art

2013

Traces 5 - Beyond Paper, The Biennale for Drawing in Israel Jerusalem Artist House, Jerusalem, curator: Tal Yahas

2012

RE: visiting Rockefeller, Israeli Contemporary Art at the Rockefeller Archaeological, Museum, Jerusalem Rockefeller Museum, Jerusalem, curator: Saly Haftels neve & Yanai Segal

2011

One, Two and Three, Selected Israeli artists from the three, Herzliya Biennial exhibitions, Mani House, Tel-Aviv, curator: Dalia Levin | associate curator: Tal Bechler

Body without body, body images in contemporary Israeli sculpture, Georg Kolbe museum, Berlin, Germany, Curator: Liav Mizrahi

Making the Cut, Young Artist Award 2003-2010, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv, curator: Diana Dallal

2010

Gabriel Orozco Was Here, Bezalel Gallery, Tel-Aviv, curator: Ruti Direktor

2008

Open Plan Living, TLV Project, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv Museum, curator: Dr. Andrew Renton

D.I.Y* Israeli Post Minimalism in the Seventies and in the Contemporary Art, Herzelia Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzelia, curator: Adi Engelman

2007

In the Time Tunnel, Braverman ByArtProjects, Tel-Aviv

2006

Lego, The Heder art gallery, Tel-Aviv

Incorrigible Young and Restless Romantics, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, curator: Jossef Krispel

2005

May, MFA Graduated exhibition, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design

Hunger, Rachel and Israel Pollak Gallery (Kalisher), Tel Aviv, curator: Naomi Aviv

Power, Reading center, Tel Aviv, curator: Doron Rabina

2004

How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare, Rachel and Israel Pollak Gallery (Kalisher), Tel Aviv, curator: Naomi Aviv

Winners of the Ministry of Education and Culture, Tel-Aviv Museum

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