Abba Irit
Irit Abba, winner of the 2009 Andy Prize, has been creating for three decades. A graduate of
the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design,Jerusalem’s Ceramic and Glass Design Dept., she
has been teaching there since the mid 80′. Her work has internalized a wide-reaching
pottery culture. During the past decade she has been perfecting porcelain work on the pottery
wheel with virtuosity, testing the boundaries of matter. She has participated in solo and group
exhibitions in galleries and museums inIsraeland abroad.
Solo exhibition
2012 “Do”, Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel Aviv
2011 ”Flora”, Periscope Contemporary Design Gallery, Tel Aviv
2010 Poggenpohl, Herzliya
2009 “Wheel. Period”, Andy Prize Winner of 2009, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (catalogue)
2004 “Thin Line”, The Gallery – Sho’eva, Israel
2001 “Porcelain – Small Pot”, Periscope Contemporary Design Gallery, Tel Aviv
Selected Group exhibition
2012 ”Big Secret”, Beautiful Eyes Gallery, Jerusalem
2011 “Superbowl”, The Israeli Opera House, Tel Aviv
”Techno. Logical Implements”, The 6th Biennale of Israeli Ceramic, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
”Hendle with Care”, Design Space, Tel Aviv
”Periscoptiva”, Zaritsky Artists House, Tel Aviv
”Move”, The Israeli Opera House, Tel Aviv
2008 “Clay, Sensation: The Fifth Biennale of Israeli Ceramic”, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
2007-08 Yofi, Flow Gallery, London and Ireland (AIDA)
2007 SUNY, New Paltz, New York, Guest Artist
2006 Recipient of AIDA Scholarship to the Watershed Center for Ceramic Art, Main
”Gavia” (grail, goblet), The Gallery – Sho’eva, Israel (catalogue)
”From a Painter’s Diary”, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv (catalogue)
2005 ”Twisting Drops”, Collaboration with Asaf Ben Zvi, Hakibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv
Collect 2005, V&A, London (catalogue) (AIDA)
2004 Sofa 2004, Chicago, U.S.A. (catalogue) ( AIDA)
2003 “20x20x13″, The Gallery – Sho’eva, Israel
2002 The Second Biennale of Israeli Ceramics, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv (catalogue)
2001 “Big Plates”, Ceramic design exhibition, Hankin College, Holon, Israel
“Vase Movement”, Holon, Israel
2000 Clay 2000, The Israeli Biennale of Ceramics. Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv (catalogue)
1999 “Potters Set a Table”, The Aaron Kahana House, Ramat Gan
“14 Together – Pottery and Ceramic Sculpture”, Cultural center, Rishon lezion
1998 The Israeli Pottery Symposium, Tel Hai
“Ways in Clay- Five decades of ceramic in Israel”, The Aaron Kahana House, Ramat Gan (catalogue)
1993 “Tea”, Kadim Gallery, Jerusalem (First prize)
1992 ”Early and Contemporary Ceramics, Haifa University (catalogue)
1989 Bezalel Graduates, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (catalogue)
“Ceramics from Israel”, Kassel, Germany (catalogue)
1988 ”Bottles”, Mapu gallery, Tel Aviv
1985 ”Pottery”, The Municipal Gallery, Jerusalem
1983 The Visual Art Gallery, Beer Sheba
1975 ”Bezalel 70+”, The Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv (catalogue)
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