REUVEN ISRAEL
Born in Israel, 1978. Lives and works in New York.
Reuven Israel lives and works in New York and Tel Aviv. Reuven Israel holds both an MFA (2007) and a BFA (2004) from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. In 2011 he exhibited his first major museum show at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, “Superpartners: Reuven Israel, Shai Azoulay. Some solo exhibitions include “Fatima”, Braverman Gallery, Tel-Aviv (2010); “From Shapes to Forms”, Museo Civico Floriano Bodini, Gemonio (VA) (2010); “Range of Sorrow”, Montrasio Gallery, Milan (2009); “Reuven Israel”, Braverman Gallery, Tel-Aviv (2006). Highlight group exhibitions include “The Readymade Centennial”, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa (2013); “No Place”, BAAD Gallery, Tel Aviv (2013); “Human Nature”, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv (2013); “Curator: Yona Fisher”, Ashdod Art Museum (2013); “Tracing the Fish Bladder”, Radiator Gallery, New York (2013); “Re: Visiting Rockefeller,” Rockefeller Archaeological Museum, Jerusalem (2013); “Senses of the Mediterranean”, Hangar Bicocca, Milan (2011). Awards including: Young Artist Award, The Israeli Ministry of Culture (2009); the Legacy Heritage Fund Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2007); Rich Foundation Award (2006); America- Israel Cultural Foundation- scholarship (2004,2006); Prize in memory of Ehud Elhananani, Department of Fine Art, Bezalel Academy (2004).
Press
ArtPulse
May 2015
Fjords
December 4, 2014
Gallery Exhibitions
EXPO Chicago
September 13 - 17, 2017
June 1 - July 21, 2017
Margrét H. Blöndal, Ayse Erkmen, Reuven Israel, Karin Sander, Pascale Marthine Tayou
Curated by Gregory Volk
November 7 - December 20, 2014
UNTITLED Miami Beach
December 3-7, 2015
Catalogs
Multipolarity
Featuring essays by Gregory Volk and Graham Harman.