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
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 Hous, 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 Museom 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