Yitzhak Greenfield resume

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Selected Public Commissions
. Government of Israel: large wall painting for the International Communications Center, "Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem." Geneva, Switzerland
. Department of Middle Eastern Arts and Architecture: Commemorative Poster Brooklyn,    New York
. Katamon High School: Mural Jerusalem, Israel
. Hebrew University: special print based on the archaeological source of the only Hebrew inscriptions remaining from the Second Temple. Jerusalem, IS

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Solo Exhibitions
1998 Palais Palfy Vienna, Austria
1998 Wittenberg "Mundshenk" Wittenberg, Germany
1998 The Studio: College of Art Raannah, IS
1998 Mittleman JCC Portland, Oregan, USA
1995 Nora Gallery: Cypresses and Pomegranates Jerusalem, IS
1993 Town Hall Leersum, Holland
1992 Nora Gallery: Still Life Paintings Jerusalem, IS
1991 American Cultural Center Jerusalem, IS
1986-88 Ursus-Presse Gallerie Dusseldorf, West Germany
1985 Dansk-Israel: The Yemenite Jews Exhibit, Drawings and Water Colors Forning, Denmark
1984 Nancy Stein Gallery New York City, New York
1981-83 The Saxe Gallery Toronto, Canada
1980 University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin
1980 Gallery 3 Snug Harbor Staten Island, NY
1980 Gallery Pascal Toronto, CA
1980 Donnell Library New York, NY
1980 A.B. Condon Gallery Soho, New York City, NY
1980 House of Living Judaism, Union of American Hebrew Colleges New York City, NY
1979 Goldman Art Gallery Haifa, IS
1979 Hillel Foundation, University of Wisconsin Madison, WI
1978 Bank of Guatemala: 30 Years of Israel, sponsored by the Israel Embassy Guatemala
1976 Armon Art Gallery, Old City Jerusalem, IS
1975 Magnes Museum Berkeley, California.
1972 Renee Darom Gallery Tel Aviv, IS
1970, 76 Old Jaffa Gallery Jaffa, IS
1960, 67, 85, 90 Artist's House Jerusalem, IS
1963 Bet Wilfred Museum, Kibbutz Hazorea Hazorea, IS
1962 Bet Chagall Haifa, IS
1961 Ill Torchio Gallery Venice, Italy
1959 Chemerinsky Gallery Tel Aviv, IS
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Selected Group Exhibitions
1994 East-West   Amber Gallery Liedi: Meeting of the Twain De Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, HO
1993 Philips Gallery: Four Israeli Artists Washington, District of Columbia
1993 Salt Lake Art Center: Vision of Unity Salt Lake City, Utah
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Selected Awards
1983 Society for Jewish Art Award Jerusalem, IS
1956 Dizengoff Award for Fine Art from the city of Tel Aviv Tel Aviv, IS
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Museum and Permanent Collections
The Israel Museum Jerusalem, IS
The Tel Aviv Museum Tel Aviv, IS
Museum of Modern Art Haifa, IS
Museum of Be'er Sheva Be'er Sheva, IS
The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City, NY
The Brooklyn Museum of Art Brooklyn, NY
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Victoria and Albert Museum London, United Kingdom
The Whitworth Art Gallery Manchester, UK
Bibliotheque Nationale, Graphics Collection Paris, France
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Book Illustrations
Wind and Earth: Poems in Hebrew.  Nathan Yonatan, illustrated by Yitzhak Greenfield. (Israel - Sifriat Hapoalim, 1956, 1976)
Kalim: Poems by Howard Schwartz, Hebrew translation by Schlomo Wiener and Yehuda Amichai, illustrated by Yitzhak Greenfield.  (Haifa, Israel: Renaissance Press, 1978).
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Education
Drawing and sculpture at the Educational Alliance Art School in New York with Abe Ostrowsky and Haim Gross
Ceramic sculpture with Aime Leprince at Inwood Pottery in New York
Received the America/lsrael Culture Fund Scholarship and studied in Venice, Italy, with the artist-master and print-maker Borin
Advance workshops for artists given by Marcel Yanco, Naftali Bezem and Yochanan Simon at Ein Hod, Israel
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"Yitzhak Greenfield has become the incarnation of an art inspired by and expressing Jerusalem. This alchemy is a result of his great talent, his poetic mind, his dedication to his art and his professional achievements as a painter and printmaker. The landscape of Israel, especially the Earthly and Heavenly Jerusalem, has always been a major source of his art. His love of the bible, the Kabbala, and archeology has brought new elements into his unique vision."

Miriam Tal, member of the International Association of Art Critics.

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"In Yitzhak Greenfield's Art I do feel that the reflective insights the paintings suggest are beyond mere fantasy...They suggest the delightful tension expressed so concisely by Aristotle: "Thought is not image but never exists without image."  They are the "springboards to transcendental realities."

Fr. Keven J. Kidd OFM, Jerusalem

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"In Yitzhak Greenfield's landscapes discovery of his environment and crystallization of his technique are intermeshed, developed in parallel...The results are closer to symbols than to simple visual realities."

Yona Fischer, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

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