Tsibi Geva (Born 1951, Kibbutz Ein Shemer)
Lives and works in Tel Aviv and Brooklyn
Select Solo Exhibitions
2019 Tsibi Geva, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel
2017 Jolt, albertz benda, New York, NY
Mishkan, Har-El Printers & Publishers, Tel Aviv, Israel
2016 If you want a horrible place say so, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Archeology of the Present – Work in Progress, Hamidrasha Gallery, Hayarkon 19, Tel Aviv, Israel
Tsibi Geva: The Gestural Brush, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas; curated by Howard Rutkowski
2015 Archeology of the Present, the Israeli Pavilion at the 56th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia; curated by Hadas Maor
Tsibi Geva: Paintings 2010-2015, Mönchehaus Museum of Modern Art, Goslar, Germany; curated by Barry Schwabsky and Bettina Ruhrberg
2014 Tsibi Geva: Recent and Early Works, MACRO Testaccio– Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma; curated by Barry Schwabsky and Giorgia Calò.
2013 Tsibi Geva: Paintings, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC; curated by Barry Schwabsky
2012 Transition, Object, Ashdod Art Museum, Monart Center, Ashdod, Israel; curated by Yona Fisher
New Works, The Studio on Alfasi Street, Tel Aviv, Israel; curated by Yona Fisher
The Bird Inside Stands Outside, Fondazione Horcynus Orca, Messina, Sicily, Italy; curated by Martina Corgnati
2011 Keffyieh, mural at the Peres Center for Peace, Tel Aviv, Israel
2010 Other Works, Ferrate Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Song of the Earth, San Gallo Art Station, Florence, Italy
New Works, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Biladi Biladi: Works 1983–1985, Warehouse 2, Jaffa Port, Tel Aviv, Israel; curated by Hadas Maor
NoHow On, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel; curated by Hadas Maor
2008 Mound of Things, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel; curated by Hadas Maor
2007 Natura morte, Ermanno Tedeschi Gallery, Turin, Italy
2006 Mount Analogue, Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Other Flowers, the New Gallery, Bet Gabriel on the Kinneret, Israel; curated by Gideon Ofrat
2005 After, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Master Plan, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel; curated by Daniella Talmor Local Birds, Kav 16 Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel; curated by Galia Yahav
What Does the Bird Care, Goren Gallery for the Arts, Emek Yezreel College, Israel
2002 Lattice, Hagar Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel; curated by Tal Ben Zvi
Background, Cabri Art Gallery, Kibbutz Cabri; Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot Art Gallery, Israel; curated by Drora Dekel
The Days of Awe, Tmuna Theater, Tel Aviv, Israel; curated by Noam Holdenberger
2001 The Days of Awe, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY
Rage, Achshav.Now Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany 2000 Works, Kibbutz Rosh Hanikra Gallery, Israel
1999 Keffiyeh, El Espacio Aglutinador, Havana, Cuba; curated by Tami Katz-Freiman Summer, Kibbutz Be’eri Gallery, Israel; curated by Ziva Yelin
1998 Tsibi Geva: December 1982 / December 1998, Hakibbutz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel; curated by Tali Tamir
Keffiyeh and Balata Paintings, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL; curated by Tami Katz-Freiman 1997 Works, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1995 Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY
The Big Northern Window of Classroom, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1994 Blinds, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Tsibi Geva: Works 1988–1994, Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel; curated by Galia Bar Or
1993 Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY
1992 Lessness, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel | Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel; Curator: Ariella Azoulay
1990 Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY
Shelter and Other Paintings 1985–1988, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1989 Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 1988 Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Paintings, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel; Curator: Ellen Ginton 1985 Currents: Tsibi Geva, ICA, Boston, MA
1984 Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Special Exhibit, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; Curator: Yigal Zalmona
1983 New Works, Sara Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
1982 December 1982, Hakibbutz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1979 Hakibbutz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Sara Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
Select Group Exhibitions
2018 Treasures of the Mishkahn Museum of Art, Mishkahn Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel
2017 Group Show, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Old Objects, New Artworks, The Museum of Islamic Art, Jerusalem, Israel Bad Taste, Minus 1 Gallery Haaretz Art Collection, Tel Aviv, Israel Euphoria, Museum of Art Ein Herod, Ein Herod, Israel
2016 Art School, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Flora, Trumpeldor Gallery, Ben Gurion University of the Negev Meshuna Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Silent War, Java Project Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015 A Selection of Pavilions, Wassenaar, The Netherlands; Curator: Yvette van Caldenborgh
2014 Dynasties: Haifa Museum of Art Collection, Haifa Museum of Art Works for the Drawer, the National Library of Israel, Jerusalem | Beit Bialik, Tel Aviv
Band Aid 2: 25th Anniversary of the Physicians for Human Rights Organization in Israel, Tel Aviv
Bread and Roses, Tel Aviv, Israel
2013 Tragicon, Alfred Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Geva, Golombek, Kupferman, Sissman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Beyond the Cloth: The Keffiyeh Project, Whitebox, New York, NY
2012 Solo+, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Great Wide Open: New and Old in the Collection, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel A Meeting of Parallel Lines, Kupferman’s House, Kibbutz Lohamei HaGeta’ot, Israel
2011 Bread and Roses, Kastiel Complex, Tel Aviv, Israel
29 November, HaHalalit Gallery, Tel Aviv Road to Nowhere, Ashdod Art Museum, Monart Center, Israel Recipients of the 2010 Culture and Sports Ministry Awards for Art and Design, Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel
2010 The Right to Protest, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
Lost: Biennale of Drawing, Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem Neighbors, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, Germany
Third Thoughts, CCA Andrtax, Mallorca Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Looking In, Looking Out: The Window in Art, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Oh God, Hanina Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2008 Check-Post: Art in Israel in the 1980s, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel The Work of Mourning, Hanina Gallery, Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Gates of the Mediterranean, Palazzo Piozzo, Casa del Conte Verde, Rivoli, Italy Mr. Guskin, ArtTLV, Tel Aviv, Israel
2007 Site Seeing, University of Haifa Art Gallery (catalogue), Haifa, Israel The Promised Land, Ermanno Tedeschi Gallery, Rome
Bare Life, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel Temporally, the Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel Bread and Pleasures: Israeli Art 6, Jaffa Port, Tel Aviv, Israel
2006 Israele arte e vita, 1906–2006, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy Double Exposure, Makor Gallery, New York, NY
Flora and Fauna, Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Earth Ways, Ashdod Art Museum, Monart Center, Ashdod, Israel
New Territories, DeHallen Belfort, Bruges, Belgium
The New Hebrews: A Century of Art in Israel, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany Beijing–Shanghai–Tel Aviv, the House at 27 Chissin Street, Tel Aviv, Israel Dynasty, Art Gallery, Sapir Academic College, Israel
2005 Power: Israeli Art 4, Reading Power Station, Tel Aviv, Israel Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2004 Park Avenue Synagogue, New York, NY Dot Fiftyone Gallery, Art Basel, Miami, FL
Fragments, Time for Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Artissima, Ermanno Tedeschi Gallery, Turin, Italy
Signed and Dated, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
The ’80s in Israeli Art, Art Gallery, Oranim Academic College, Kiryat Tivon, Israel
2003 Imagine, Umm El-Fahem Art Gallery, Israel
The Shine: Dreams from the Sea of Gaza, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel First Flowers of Israeli Art, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY
2002 The Height of the Popular, Tel Aviv, Israel
Museum of Art Views, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Mediterranean, Beit Hagefen, Haifa, Israel
Grid Drawing in Israeli Art, University of Haifa Art Gallery, Haifa, Israel
The Return to Zion: Beyond the Place Principle, Time for Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Focus on Painting, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
2001 Berest, Geva, Shachar, Shaul, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel | Arco, Madrid, Spain
2000 The World of Yesterday, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Ladies and Gentlemen, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Perpetual Well: Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Jewish Museum, Samuel P. Harn, Museum of Art, University of Florida Molds of Their Homeland: Symbols of Identity in the Works of Assim Abu-Shakra and Tsibi Geva, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel
Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Sun, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Wishlist, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Havana Nagila, Artists Workshops, Tel Aviv, Israel
1999 Notes on the Days of Awe 2, installation in “Phantoms: Tsibi Geva and José Bedia, Art Focus 3, Jerusalem, Israel
About Raffi, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1998 To the East: Orientalism in the Arts in Israel, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Political Art in the 90’s, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
Ninety Years of Israeli Art: A Selection from the Joseph Hackmey—Israel Phoenix Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art A Fence of Cypresses, Fruit of Time, Mister Sweety, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
1997 TIMOTCA/UNESCO: Art Beyond Borders, the International Museum of 20th Century Arts, the UN building, New York, NY | UNESCO building, Paris, France
1996 Desert Cliché: Israel Now—Local Images (traveling exhibition), Arad Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel; The Bass Museum, Miami, FL; Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY; Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Haifa University Art Gallery Windows, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Ketav: Body and Word in Israeli Art, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Michal Na’aman, Tsibi Geva, Deganit Berest, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Minister of Education and Culture’s Award for Visual Art – The First Decade, Tel Aviv, Israel
Museum of Art Arabesque, Umm El-Fahem Art Gallery, Israel
Tsibi Geva, Michael Sgan-Cohen, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Works from the Museum Collection, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
1995 Mitzpe Project, installation at “Coexistence Meeting”, the Artists Museum, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel
1994 Subtropical: Between Figuration and Abstraction, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
From the Sublime to the Meticulous: Seven Contemporary Israeli Artists, Davis McLean Gallery, Houston, TX
From the Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
1993 There, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Berlin–Tel Aviv–Jerusalem–Dresden, Galerie Parterre, Berlin, Germany; Galerie Rähnitzgasse, Dresden, Germany
1992 Postscript: End Representations in Contemporary Israeli Art, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv
Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Israeli Art Around 1990, Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY
The South of the World: The Other Contemporary Art, Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea, Marsala, Italy
Summer Presentation, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
1990 10 Ten Years of Acquisitions, 1979–1989, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel Towards the ’90s, Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel
Ya’acov Dorchin, Tsibi Geva, Art Gallery, Oranim Academic College, Kiryat Tivon, Israel
1989 Nine Israeli Artists, Kunsthaus Zürich; Orangerie Herrenhausen, Hannover In the Shadow of the Conflict, the Jewish Museum, New York, NY
1988 36 Artists, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv | Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Fresh Paint: The Younger Generation in Israeli Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
1987 Artist–Format, Format–Artist: Israeli Art in Large Format, Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel
1986 The Want of Matter: A Quality in Israeli Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art Diptych, Triptych, Polyptych, Graham Modern Gallery, New York The Concerned Eye: Israeli Art Today, Port of History Museum, Philadelphia (catalogue) Art Israel: The 1980s, Graham Modern Gallery, New York, NY
1985 The Israeli Pavilion, São Paulo Biennial
Milestones in Israeli Art, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Art in Israel 1906–1985, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
1984 Two Years 1983–1984: Israeli Art – Qualities Accumulated, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Arte em Israel, Museu de São Paulo, Brazil
Eighty Years of Sculpture in Israel, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
1983 Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Tel Hai ’83: International Contemporary Art Meeting, Tel Hai, Israel Description of a Situation, Horace Richter Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1982 Tel Aviv in Jerusalem, the Artists House, Jerusalem, Israel
1981 Summer Show, Shinar Gallery, Tel Aviv
The Autumn Salon, Dizengoff Center, Tel Aviv
Political Identity, Hakibbutz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv Another Spirit, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
1980 Borders, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Awards
2010 The Culture and Sports Ministry Lifetime Achievement Award
2004 The Mendel and Eva Pundik Foundation Award for Israeli Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
2003 The Aptowitzer Prize, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
2001 The George and Janet Jaffin Award, America–Israel Cultural Foundation
1997 The Sandberg Prize for an Israeli Artist, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
1996 The Isracard Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
1994 The Minister of Science and Arts Prize for Fine Art
1985 Beatrice S. Kolliner Prize for a Young Israeli Artist, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel 1984 The America–Israel Cultural Foundation, Sharett Scholarship for Advanced Studies Abroad
Public Collections
Alrov Group Collection, Tel Aviv, Israel
Ashdod Art Museum, Ashdod, Israel
Azrieli Foundation Collection, Israel
Biri Real Estate Collection, London, UK
Fondazione Horcynus collection, Orca, Messina, Sicily Givon Gallery Collection, Tel Aviv, Israel
Giza Venture Capital Collection, Tel Aviv, Israel Haaretz Art Collection, Tel Aviv, Israel
Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
Hapoalim Bank Collection, Israel
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
ORS Collection, Tel Aviv, Israel
Pitango Venture Capital Collection, Israel
Rothfeld Collection, American University Museum, Washington DC
Shibolet & Co. Collection, Tel Aviv, Israel
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
The Phoenix Insurance Company, Hartford, CT
TIMOTCA; The International Museum of Twenty-first Century Art peace, Laguna Beach, CA Umm El Fahem Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel
Van Leer Institute Collection, Jerusalem, Israel