Lea Nikel
Lea Nikel was born in Ukraine in 1918. She passed away in 2005.
Lived and worked in Moshav Kidron, Tel Aviv, New York, Rome, Paris, Ashdod, Safed
Prizes and Awards
1987 Gamzu Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
1985 Medal for activity at the UNESCO Experimental Workshop on the Place of
Contemporary Art and the Role of the Artist in the Teaching of Visual Arts
at Schools, Nice, France
1982 Dizengoff Prize, Tel Aviv Municipality, Israel
1968 The National Council of Culture and Art Prize, awarded by the Ministry of Education and Culture, Jerusalem
1966 Sandberg Prize, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1953 First Prize at the “Israeli Painters in Paris” exhibition, Galerie Zak, Paris, France
Collections
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Museum of Modern Art, Haifa, Israel
Haifa Museum of Modern Art Israel
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Kibbutz Kabri, Israel
Chaim Atar Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel
The Jerusalem Municipality, Mishkenot Sha’ananim, and the Jerusalem Theater
Bank of Israel, Jerusalem
Israel Discount Bank
Weizmann Institute of Science
The National Museum of Modern Art, Paris
Tate Gallery, London
The Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
Private collections
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Lea Nikel, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2022 Lea Nikel, Parterre Projects, Tel Aviv, Israel
2022 Lea Nikel, The Lobby Art Space, Tel Aviv, Israel
2018 Black Butterfly: 100 Year Anniversary Of Her Birth, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2013 The Spectacle of Lea Nikel, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2005 Lea Nikel – Watercolor on Paper, Hacheder, Tel Aviv, Israel
2004 Lea Nikel – Paris 1950-1961, Mane Katz Museum, Haifa, Israel
2002 Lea Nikel – New Works 1998-2002, Zommer Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2001 Lea Nikel – Works on Paper 1950-2000, Open Museum at Omer Industrial Park, Omer, Israel
1995 Lea Nikel – A Retrospective, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
1992 Lea Nikel: Book, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv, Israel
Nikel – Monoprints, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1990 Nikel, Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Barbican Center, London, England
1989 Mokotoff Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.
1988 Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Lea Nikel, the Gallery at Cabri, Kibbutz Cabri, Israel
1987 Lea Nikel: Works on Paper, the Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel
Mokotoff Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.
1986 Lea Nikel: Work in Small Dimensions, Meimad Katan Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1985 Lea Nikel, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1984 Sara Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem
1983 Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1980 Lea Nikel: Works 1974-1976, Sara Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem
1979 Sara Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem
1978 Sara Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem
1975 Watercolors, Collages & Mixed Media, America-Israel Cultural Center, New York, U.S.A.
1973 Lea Nikel: Paintings 1963-1973, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv, Israel
1972 Selected Works of Lea Nikel, Gordon Gallery II, Tel Aviv, Israel
1970 Chemerinsky Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1967 Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1966 Lea Nikel – Recent Paintings, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Dizengoff House, Israel
1965 Lea Nikel, Chemerinsky Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1961 Lea Nikel: Paintings, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Dizengoff House, Israel
1957 Galerie Espace, Haarlem, Holland
Galerie Colette Allendy, Paris, France
1954 Chemerinsky Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Action, Gesture, Paint – Women Artists & Global Abstraction 1940-70, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2002 Focus on Painting, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
1995 The Johannesburg Biennale – Africus `95, the 1st Biennale of South Africa, Johannesburg
1994 The Printers’ Imprint- 20 Years of the Jerusalem Print Workshop, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Art Miami ’93, Barbara Scott Gallery, Miami, Florida, U.S.A.
1993 Mutual Feedback, Florence Miller Art Center, Print Workshop, Jerusalem
1992 Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Israeli Art from the Ayala Zacks-Abramov Collections, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Print+, Ashdod Museum, Ashdod, Israel
1991 The Secret of Color Reduction, traveling exhibition organized by the Ministry of Education and Culture, The America-Israel Cultural Foundation and Omanut La`am
1990 Drawing and Beyond, Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Dialogue with Stematsky, Artists` Studios, Tel Aviv, Israel
1989 The Gallery in Cabri, Kibbutz Cabri, Israel
1988 Artist at the Gallery in Cabri, Kibbutz Cabri, Israel
1st International Triennial of Small-Format Prints, Auvergne, France
1987 Israel Painting in Big Format, Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel
Selected Images
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Lea Nikel, Untitled, 1975, acrylic on canvas, 135x150 cm
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Lea Nikel, Untitled, 1989, acrylic and collage on canvas, 73x92 cm
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Lea Nikel, Untitled, 1991, acrylic and collage on canvas, 150x170 cm
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Lea Nikel, Untitled, 1967, oil on canvas, 56x66 cm
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Lea Nikel, Untitled, 1989, acrylic on canvas, 132x132 cm
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Lea Nikel, Untitled, 1994, acrylic on canvas, 150x150 cm
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Lea Nikel, Untitled, 1994, acrylic on canvas, 165x165 cm
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Lea Nikel, Untitled, 1995, acrylic on canvas, 135x135 cm
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Lea Nikel, Untitled, 1998, acrylic on canvas, 100x100 cm
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Lea Nikel, Untitled, 1994, acrylic on canvas, 135x135 cm
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Lea Nikel, Untitled, 2002, acrylic om canvas, 135x135 cm
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Lea Nikel, Untitled, 1999, oil on canvas, 135x150 cm
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Lea Nikel, Untitled, 2003, acrylic on canvas, 97x130 cm
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