About the artist
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Short biographical notesBorn July 12, 1938, in Kharkov (Ukraine)
In 1941 the family was evacuated to Aktyubinsk, Kazakhstan In 1948 the family moved to Alma-Ata 1953-57 — Attended Alma-Ata Construction College 1958 — Accepted to the fourth year of Kharkov Art college (sculpture department), after graduation in 1960 came back to Alma-Ata, worked as a school teacher of drawing, an artist in the Alma-Ata puppet theater and later on television studios in Petropavlovsk and Balkhash 1965-71 — Study at the Surikov Art Institute in Moscow 1973 — Membership in the The USSR Artist Union 1978 — Participated in the making of the film “Poor Liza” as a sculptor 1978-87 — Presented regularly at various exhibitions of Moscow artists 1987 — Solo exhibition — Exhibition Hall, 65 Vavilov st., Moscow 1989 — Sculpture symposium in the city of Iserlohn, Germany 1991 — Solo exhibition — Georgi Gallery, Berkeley, CA 1991 — International Artist Conference, San Francisco, CA 1991-93 — Created and ran “Functional Sculpture” company. VDNH Award for the best playground installations in Russia 1994 — Immigrated to Israel 1994-2005 — Lived and worked in artist village of Sa-Nur in Samaria 2002 — Solo exhibition —American Cultural Center, Jerusalem, Israel 2003-2005 — Directed the art gallery of Sa-Nur 2006 — Received the “Olive of Jerusalem” Award 2008 — “LOST AND FOUND” exhibition, The New Gallery, Jerusalem. 2010 — Collaboration with Michael Yahilevich, Agrippas 12 gallery, Jerusalem 2012 — Creation of the memorial to the artist Mordechai Lipkin and all victims of terror, Jerusalem 2016 — Exhibition at Ilana Goor Museum, Tel Aviv 2016 — Dykat Gallery, Kiev |
