Motti Mizrachi

Curriculum Vitae

1946 Born in Tel Aviv
1969-1974 Studied at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
Lives and works in Tel Aviv

Selected Solo  Exhibitions:

1975  "New Faces", Sarah Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem
            Soft Art Gallery, Lucern, Swutzerland
1976  Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv
1977  "White Exhibition", Sarah Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem
1978  Petry Gallery, Malmo, Sweden
1982  "Outlines for the Akeda Opera”, Sara Levi Gallery
1985  Youth Wing, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1989  Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv
1991  "One Handed Clappings", Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
1992  Chicago Art Fair, by the Chelouche Gallery, Chicago, U.S.A.
1993  "Stella Maris”’ Beit Constant, Ramat Gan
1996  "Passage" (with Patrick Raynaud), Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2000  "Rwanda Casanova", Haifa Museums, The Museum of Art
2001  "Body Care Light" (with Buki Grinberg), Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
           "Rwanda Casanova – Temptation", Braunstein / Quay Gallery, San Francisco
2002  "Rwanda Casanova – Blinking", city hall gallery, Yavne 
           "Rwanda Casanova – Blinking", Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2004  "Passion"- Chelouche Gallery, "Wailing"- Dvir Gallery, "Compassion"- The 

            Midrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv.

Selected Group Exhibitions:

1975  "0pen Workshop", Israel Museum, Jerusale,
1978  "Artists – Society -Artist”, Tel Aviv Museum
            "CAYC”, Buenos Aries, Argentina
1979  "Performance 79”, The Artists House, Tel Aviv
           “Artist Chooses Artist", Tel Aviv Museum
1980  The Paris Biennale
            Tel Hai ’80, Contemporary Art Meeting

            7 Israeli Artists, Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
           “Borders”. Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1982  “Here and Now”, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
           “Pictures are not Forbidden”, Museum of Modern Art, Dusseldorf, Germany
1984  “80 Years of Sculpture”, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
           “A Pear as well as an Apple”, The Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv Museum
1985  “Two Years – Qualities Accumulated”, The Helena Rubinstein, Tel Aviv Museum
            (Sunfrost Project)
1987  The Sao Paolo Biennale, Brazil
1988  The Venice Biennale
1989  “In the Shadow of the Conflict”, The Jewish Museum, New York
1990  “The Jewish Experience in 20th Century Art”, Barbican Center, London
1991  The Sao Paolo Biennale, Brazil
           “Israeli Art Around 1990”, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany ; The Artists House,
            Moscow ; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
           “Makom – 1991”, Hara Museum, Japan
           “Israeli Art Now- Expanded Exhibitiom”, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv Museum
1992  “A Look and a Perspective", Opera House, Leipzig, Germany
1993  “Makom-Contemporary Israeli Art", The Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, Austria
           “1990-1993: Confrontations – New Acquisitions”, Palais Liechtenstein, Vienna,

            Austria
           “Action Traces from the 70th”, Chelouch Gallery, Tel Aviv
1994  “Anxiety”, The Museum of Israeli Art Ramat Gan
1999  "Echo", Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2000  The Vera' Silvia and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv 
            Museum of Art
            "Collection", Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2001  "The Collection" ,The Museum Moderner Kunst , Wien
2002  "The Boundaries of Sculpture, The Open Museum in Tefen and Omer, and the   

            Avraham Baron Gallery at Ben Gurion University of the Negev
           “The Water Division”, Acco Festival
           “Conceptes De L’espai”, Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona
           “Alien Seedling”, Yanko-Dada Museum, Ein-Hod, and The City-Hall, Gallery 
           Kfar-Saba
           The Minister of Science, Culture & Sport Prize, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for
           Contemporary art, Tel Aviv
2003  “Surface Talk”, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
            Art-Basel 34, Switzerland
           “Mifkad”, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
            Valencia Biennial, Valencia
           "Thou Shall Make…- Resurgence of Judaism in Israeli Art" Time for Art Gallery, 

            Tel Aviv
2004  "Love is in the Air", Time for Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
           "The Puppet Show", Time for Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2007  "dateline: Israel", The Jewish Museum, New York
 

Special Performance and Products:

1973  Via Dolorosa”, Jerusalem
1976  "Performance 76”, Artists House, Tel Aviv
1978  "Breakthrouth”, International Art Fair, Tel Aviv
1979  "Art Therapy", performance, Artists House, Tel Aviv
1980  "Mizrachi Mail", project
            “The Year of the Dover"performance, Tel -Hai ’80 Biennale
1981  "Rejoicings", performance, Tel Aviv Museum (together with Erick Shapira)
1982  "Klein’s Way Of Agony", Performance, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 
            (with Erick Shapira)
            “Songs”. Israel Museum, Jerusalem (with Erick Shapira)

Awards

1976  Awarded the Beatrice S. Colliner Prize for a Young Israeli Artist, Israel Museum, 
           Jerusalem
1987  Awarded the Bank Discount prize for a Young Israeli Artist, Israel Museum , 
           Jerusalem 
           America-Israel Culture Foundation Prize
           Awarded Sandberg Prize for an Israeli Artist, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2001  The Dan Sandel and Sandel Family Foundation Sculpture Award, Tel Aviv 

           Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2002  The Minister of Science, Culture & Sport Prize