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