Haim Maor (Moshkovitz)
1951 Born in Jaffa, Israel.
1961-1968 Studied painting under Edwin Solomon
1972 Graduated from the Hanah Yofeh
Trade High
School, majoring in Graphic Arts
1975-1976 Taught art in an elementary school in Kibbutz
Gesher
1976 Graduated from Seminar
for Teachers of Art and
Painting, Ramat Hasharon
Since 1977 Member of Kibbutz Givat-Haim-Meuhad.
1977-1984 Taught art, design and art history in the “Hof
Hacarmel” School, Kibbutz Ma’agan Michael.
1980-1981 Art Director of the Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv
(jointly
with Dov Or-Ner and Ya’acov Hefetz).
1981-1983 Wrote articles about art in “Yakhad” – journal
of the Kibbutz Movement,
and
designed holiday issue covers for the journal.
1983-1995 Art writer for the “Khotam”, supplement of “Al-Hamishmar” newspaper.
April 1983 Member of the Israeli Artists and Writers
delegation to
“40 Years to the Warsah Ghetto Uprising”. Visiting in
concentration
camps and death camps sites, and in remnants of Jewish towns in
Poland.
1986-1987 Taught art at the “Oranim” art institute, Tivon.
1988-1996 Taught art at the Art Center and School of TV and
Cinema
Professions, Givat Haviva.
1989-1993 Editor of the Art Journal “Studio”.
1995-1996 Art Writer for “Davar Hashavua”, (weekend
supplement of “Davar”),
the magazine “Arba al Khamesh” and the local periodical “Al
Hatzafon”
1996-1997 Art Director for “Chadashot Tovot”, (monthly supplement of “Ma’ariv”)
1996 Recognized as
Dr. [equivalent] based on his Articles, Artistic activities
and involvement.
1996-1997 Head Master of the College of Visual Arts, Beer-Sheva.
1996-1999 Lectures two courses in the dept. of the Art History
in the Humanities
Faculty of Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva.
1997-1998 Teaches drawing at “Sha’ar Hanegev” college.
1998 Tour of Tennessee,
USA, as part of an artists exchange,
on behalf of the Foreign Ministry.
Since þ1999 A full time position teaching at the dept.
of Art History in the
Humanities Faculty, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva
Solo Exhibitions:
2002 Installation: "Marked Signifieds 1975-2002", Kibbutz Kabri Gallery.
2001 Installation: "Photogra-fairy", Tova Osman Gallery, Tel Aviv
2000 Installation: "Anima, Animus, Anonymous" Giv'at Haim Ihud's Gallery
1999 Installation: "Suzanna Shoshana", "Beit Gavriel" Gallery, Tzemakh.
Installation: "Suzanna Shoshana", Kibbutz Na'an Gallery.
1998 Installation: "The Faces of Race and
Memory: Suzanna - Shoshanat
Ya'akov", Bnai-Brith Museum, The National Jewish Museum, Washington.
Curator: Uri
Soltes.
1997 Installation: "Suzanna Shoshana", A Gallery in Kibbutz Rosh Hanikra
1996 Installation:
"Suzanna Shoshana", Memorial Center,
tivon.
Curator: Esti
Reshef.
Installation: "The Cloth and the Trees", Dafna Naor Gallery,
Jerusalem.
Curator:
Dafna Naor.
Installation: "Suzanna
Shoshanna", City Gallery, Rehovot.
Curator: Ada
Nahmani.
Since November 1994
Permanent
Installation "Paratroopers of Hope", Memorial
Center,
Givat
Hatakhmoshet, Jerusalem.
Since October 1994
Installation: "The Forbidden
Library", City Gallery, Kfar Saba.
Curator:
Osnat Hochman.
1993 Installation:
"The Body of Works of Body Works", Camera
Obscura
Gallery,
Tel-Aviv. Curator: Michal Heyman.
Installation: "The Face of Race and Memory from the Forbidden Library",
The
Center for Contemporary Art, Hague, Holland. Curator: Phillip Peter.
1988 Installation
:"Faces of Race and of Memory", Israel
Museum, Jerusalem.
Curator: Yigal Tzalmona.
1986 Installation
:"A Message from Auschwitz-Birkenau to the
Han-Jerusalem", Han Theatre,
Jerusalem.
1984
"Camouflage: Developmental Stages
of the Children of Light and the
Children of Darkness - 1981-1984",
Kibbutz Gallery, Tel-Aviv.
1980-1983 "Dissolving Myths" A travelling installation and
exhibition shown in
various Kibbutzim, and conceptual Seminars in the teaching center
in
Ramat-Efal and Givat-Haviva.
1980 "Blindness and the Mark of Cain", Kibbutz Eilon Gallery.
"Blindness and
the Mark of Cain", Haim Atar Art Center,
Kibbutz Ein-Harod
"Blindness and
the Mark of Cain", Wilfried Art Museum,
Kibbutz Hazorea.
1979
"Blindness", Kibbutz Gallery, Tel-Aviv.
Curator: Miriam Tuvia-Boneh.
Installation and Video Installations: "Blind in Blue","Touch Draw",
"Blindness", "Blindness 1"," Decryption", "Decryption 2"
1978 "Collection of Works
1975-1978", "Beit Sharet" Cultural Center,
Kibbutz Givat Haim Meuhad.
"The Mark of Cain", "Kibbutz"
Gallery, Tel-Aviv.
Curator: Miriam Tuvia-Boneh.
Groups Exhibitions (in recent years):
2006
2004 "The 80's", Art Institute Gallery, Oranim, Tivon
2003 "Ken Ta'ase Lecha � Revival of Judaism in Israeli Art", Time for Art, Tel Aviv
2002 "Lebanon: 20 Years", Ha'Kibbutz Gallery, Tel-Aviv
1999-2000 "The Perpetual Well:
Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Jewish Museum",
Samuel P. Harm Museum of Art, University of Florida, United States
1999 "The Commemoration and
the Memory", Beit Terrezin,
Kibbutz Givat Haim Ihud.
"Fabrics Remember", Seam Gallery, Moshav Megadim.
Curator: Mirjam Bruck-Cohen.
1998 "Forbidden - Forbidden Art
in Israel", Ami Steinitz Gallery for
Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv. Curator: Ami Steinitz.
"Object - Divinity - Ritual" , Parthenon Museum , Nashville,
Tennessee,
USA.
Curators: Dafna Naor, Hila Pelled.
"Sabath in the Kibbutz - the Kibbutz as a Parable", 'Uri &
Rami House,
Kibbutz Ashdot Yaakov. Curator: Tali Tamir.
"Aspects of Israeli Art of the 70s", Tel-Aviv Art Museum.
Curators: Prof. Moredkhai Omer, and Allan Ginton.
"A
Resounding Voice (The Bible in Israeli Art 70s-90s)",
"Beit
Ha-Omanim", Tel-Aviv. Curator: Tali Tamir.
"Seeing with the Finger Tips", The New Art Gellary, Ramat-Eliyahu.
Curator:
Sharon Barak-Becher.
1997 "Concept - Holocaust - Concept",
the New Gallery, Beit Abba-Khushi,
Haifa. Curator: Aviva Shemer.
"Identity, Reflections, and Vision", Artist Studio Gallery, Hadera.
Curator:
Anton Bidderman.
"50 Blue and White", Art Center, Holon. Curator: Batia Regev.
"Love
at First Sight - the Dafna Naor Collection at Kabri", Israeli Art
Gallery,
Kabri. Curator: Dafna Naor.
"Art
and Faith" - how the secular may discuss religion, the New Art
Gallery,
Ramat-Eliahu, Rishon LeTziyon. Curator: Sara Barak-Becher.
"50
Blue and white", Artist Studio Gallery, Hadera.
Curator:
Anton Bidderman.
1996 "Double" (with Michael
Sgan-Cohen), The Bar-David Museum for
Jewish
Art, Kibbutz Bar-am.
"Recipients of the Head of the Artists Council Award, Heffer Valley -
1996", Hasharon Museum, Heffer Valley.
"80
Years to Kfar Giladi", 'Beit Hashomer', Kfar Giladi.
Curator.
Batia Guy.
"A
Decade to the award of the Minister of Education and Culture to
Artists in Visual Media", Tel Aviv Art Museum. Curator: Surin Heller.
"Outside the Center" (exhibition of the teachers of the college for
Visual Arts, Beer Sheva),
Turkish Train Station Gallery, Beer Sheva.
"Object - Divinity - Ritual", City Gallery, Jerusalem.
Curators:
Dafna Naor, Hila Peled.
1995 "Tel Hai 75 Years" (images
and interpretation in the works of 5 artists),
Tel-Hai
Courtyard Gallery. Curator: Batia Guy.
"Never
Again: Contemporary artists address the Holocaust", Cathedral
of
St. John the Divine, New-York. Curator: Noga Griesson.
"Enlightments", Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv. Curator: Naomi Shalev.
1994 "The Continuous Shadow", Beit
Ha-Omanim, Tel-Aviv.
Curator:
Yaakov Tzim.
"90-70-90", Tel-Aviv Art Museum. Curator: Rona Sela.
"Tel-Hai 94" Tel-Hai College. Curator: Gidon Ofrat.
"Standing Opposite the Mountain - Kibbutz in
the First Person", as part
of
the "Art-Focus" events, Givat Haviva Art Center. Curator: Tali Tamir.
"Recipients of the Minister of Arts and Sciences Award", Israel Museum,
Jerusalem.
1993 "Painting After Photography". Memorial Center Gallery, Tivon.
"Enlightments", Beit Ha-Omanim, Tel-Aviv. Curator: Naomi Shalev.
"Workers of Land / Artists of Territory", Bugrashov Gallery, Tel-Aviv.
Curator:
Gidon Ofrat.
"Seam", Yad- Labanim Museum, Petah Tikva.
"Wine
and Color", the Carmel Mizrahi wine cellar, Rishon LeTziyon.
Curator:
David Katz.
"Man / Earth", Art Center Gallery, Givat Haviva.
1992 "From the End of the West"
(500 years to the Expulsion from Spain),
Jerusalem
Theatre. Curator: Haim Finkelstein.
"Art
from the Kibbutz, Art as seen through the Idea: They don't the
Kibbutz Like They Used To", Rasko Tower, Tel-Aviv.
"From
the End of the West", Beit Ha-omanim, and later a travelling
exhibition.
"Metphowrite", City Gallery, Kfar Saba.
"Epilog" (representations of the End in contemporary Israeli art),
University
Gallery, Tel-Aviv University. Curator: Tami Katz-Friedman.
"Seam" , Ashdod Museum.
1991 "44 Lailas", Women Museum, Bonn Germany. Curator: Laila Schwartz.
"Drawing Here, Drawing Now?", Kalisher 5 Gallery, Tel-Aviv.
Curator:
Anton Bidderman.
"The
Color: Khaki" (The image of the Soldier in Israeli art),
"Habima"
Theatre, Tel-Aviv. Curator: Gidon Ofrat.
"Contemporary Israeli Sculpture", Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
"Metaphowrite" ( The textual component in Israeli Art towards the
90s).
Yanko
Dada Museum. Curator: Sara Hackert.
"Wandering Routes" (immigration, travelling and passages in
contemporary Israeli art). Israel Museum. Curator: Sarit Shapira.
1990-1993 "The Sunflowers" A travelling Exhibition.
1990 "Political Still Nature", Beit Ha-omannim, Tel-Aviv.
Curator: Miriam Tuvia-Boneh.
"The
Boundary of Peace", Givat Haviva.
Curators:
Reviva Regev, and Sarit Shapira.
"The
Sunflowers", Barar Center for the Arts, Ma'alot.
Curator:
Tova Osman.
"The Common, Kibbutz 90", Atar Art Center, Kibbutz Ein-Harod.
1982 Israeli Representative to the 12th Biennale for Young Artists, Paris
Awards:
1996 Honorable Mention in " Head of the Artists Council Award, Heffer Valley"
1995 Received the Zusman Award, Yad Vashem. Jerusalem.
1994 Received the Minister of Science and Culture award.
Art Collections:
The Jewish Museum, New York
The
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
The
Tel-Aviv Museum of Art
The
Museum of Art Ein Harod
Museum
for Jewish Art, Kibbutz Bar'am
Various Private Collections
Since 1980 curated exhibitions for various artists, and/or writes texts for their catalogs.
Exhibitions Curated by Haim Maor in recent years:
1998-2006 Curator of 20 exhibitions in Ben Gurion University' Galleries.
2002
The Voice of Ishmael", City Gallery, Re'hovot
"The Boundaries of Sculpture: Israeli Sculpture Between
art, Science and Technology", The Open Museum in Tefen
& Omer and the Avraham Baron Art Gallery at Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev
(Curator with Prof. Haim Finkelstein and Ruthi Ofek)
2001 "Map
Impressions" Solo exhibition of Miriam Bruke-Cohen, The Museum
of Art Ein Harod
1999 Curated a Solo Exhibition of Ziva Nethanel, "Waiting for
the Silence to
Come", Yanko Dada Museum,
Ein-Hod.
Curated a Solo Exhibition
of Ruth Kastenbaum Ben-Dov,
"In the Body of the Text", Yanko Dada Museum,
Ein-Hod.
1998 Curated "Kol
Ha'kavod - Human Dignity and Representation of the Other in
Contemporary Israeli Art",a group exhibition for the "Museum Art Forum"
(Yanko Dada Museum, Ein-hod. Ben-Ari Museum,
Bat-Yam. Ashdod Museum.
Arad Museum. City Gallery Kfar Saba.
1980-1998 Curator of exhibitions by various artists
in various art spaces.
1980-1981 Art Director and Curator of Ha'Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv (jointly with Dov Or-Ner and Yaakov Hefetz)