About the artist:

Born in Tel Aviv in 1932. An Israeli sculptor and painter. From 1947 to 1950 he studied with the Israeli sculptor Moshe Sternschuss (b 1905) at the Avni Institute in Tel Aviv and in 1954 with the Israeli sculptor Rudi Lehmann (1903-77) in Jerusalem. In 1959 he moved to London, studying there until 1962. He remained in London until 1972 and had his first one-man show there in 1965 at the Grosvenor Gallery. His sculptures of the 1960s were Minimalist in style and so designed as to appear to defy gravity. This was achieved either through careful balance and construction, as in Suspense (1966; Jerusalem, Israel Museum.), or by using glass and metal so that the metal appeared unsupported, as in Segments (1968; New York, MOMA), and the glass allowed the environment to be part of the work 1932 Born in Tel Aviv 1947-50 Studies with the sculptor Moshe Sternschuss 1954 Studies with the sculptor Rudi Lehmann 1959-60 St. Martin's School of Art and Slade School of Art, London. Studies with Anthony Caro, Reg Butler 1972 Returns to Israel. Lives in Tel Aviv On May 8, 2015 Kadishman died after he was hospitalized at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer. Selected one man exhibitions 60's 1965 Kadishman, Sculptures - Grosvenor Gallery, London. Curator Charles Spencer Harlow Arts Festival - Harlow, England 1967 Dunkelman Gallery, Toronto 1968 Edinburgh International Festival - Goldbergs & The Richard Demarco Gallery 70's 1970 Menashe Kadishman / Yellow Forest - Jewish Museum, New York. Cur. Tejas Englesmith, asso. curator Edward Fry 1971 The J.L. Hudson Gallery, Detroit, Michigan 1972 Menashe Kadishman, Concepts and their realization - Mus. Haus Lange, Krefeld. Cur. Paul Wember Yellow Square, Valley of the Cross, Jerusalem 1975 Canvas Forest/Laundry - Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Curator Yona Fisher Menashe Kadishman : Glass - Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv 1976 M. Kadishman : Glass - Rina Gallery, New York 1977 Unicorn Gallery, Copenhagen 1978 The Venice Biennale, The Israeli Pavilion. Curator Amnon Barzel 1979 The Kadishman Connection - Israel Mus., Jerusalem. Curators Stephanie Rachum, Nurit Shilo-Cohen 80's Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv 1981 Argaman Gallery, Tel Aviv The Yellow Sheep and the Metal Grove 1956-81 - University of Haifa Art Gallery. Cur. Ilana Ortar Kadishman : Paintings 1979-1981 - Tel Aviv Museum. Curator Sara Breitberg-Semel 1982 Kadishman 1982 - Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv Sara Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem Art 13’82, International Art Fair, Basel (by Goldman Gallery) 1983 Mulenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania International Art Fair, Chicago (by Goldman Gallery) 1984 Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv Gallery 99, Miami Gallerie Fabien Boulakia, Paris 1985 Kadishman - Tatrama Gallery, Tel Aviv Sacrifice of Isaac - Sculpture and Painting, Jewish Mus., New York. Cur. Susan Goodman. Txts Amnon Barzel, Edward Fry, Nathan Zach Sacrifice of Isaac - 18th Biennale of Sao Paulo. Curator Amnon Barzel Kadishman - P.B.Van Voorst Van Beest Gallery, The Hague, Holland 1986 Kadishman - De Beyerd Centre for Contemporary Art, Breda. Curator Frank Tiesing; The Sculpture Garden, Gemeentemuseum, Arnhem. Curator Liesbeth Brandt-Corstitius; Delta Gallery, Rotterdam, Holland 1987 Nohra Haime Gallery, New York Myth transformed : Painting and Monumental Sculpture of Menashe Kadishman - Tel Aviv Museum. Curator Edward Fry Sculpture - 'The sacrifice of Isaac', Tel Aviv Museum Plaza 1988 Menashe Kadishman Paintings - Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, Penn. Cur. Ricardo Viera Menashe Kadishman, Opferung Isaaks - Kammermusiksaal, Berlin. Curator Julie Mamon Die Opferung Isaaks Gouachen - Kniestedter Kirche, Stadt Museum, Salzgitter, Germany 1988-89Menashe Kadishman New Sculpture and Painting - Nohra Haime Gallery, New York. text by Ed Fry 1989 FIAC 89 - Galerie Heyram-Mabel Semmler, Paris 90's 1990 Menashe Kadishman 1990 - Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv Menashe Kadishman, Small Sculpture - Nohra Haime Gallery, New York Birth and Other Sculptures, 1988-1990 - The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Cur. Yigal Zalmona Menashe Kadishman “Schapen kijken ons aan” - Galerie Kadans, Haag, Holland 1992 Sculpture and Drawings - Annely Juda Fine Art, London Menashe Kadishman - Model and Language - The New Workshop for Arts’ Ramat Eliahu, Rishon Le Zion Municipality, Israel. text: Ami Schteinitz 1993 Hans Mayer Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany 1994 Luce Del Mattino -History and Nature/ The Gori Collection - Fattoria di Celle / Spazi d’Arte, Pistoia, Italy Menashe Kdishman Curated by Hilgemann - Gallery Art Affairs, Amsterdam, Holland Faret Tachikawa Art Project, Art Front Hillside Gallery, Tokyo. Curator Fram Kitagawa. Txt Pierre Restany Drawing - Sculpture - Haifa Auditorium, Haifa Municipality. Curator Irit Miller Floor sculpture - Antin Square, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University Menashe Kadishman Memories from Venice -Art Focus, Mahanaim Gallery, Israel 1995 Menashe Kadishman Drawings and Sculptures - Artists House, Tel Aviv. Curator Irit Miller Menashe Kadishman - Julie M. Gallery Kadishman in Galilee - The Israeli Art Galleries - Cabri - Lochamei Hagetaot - Metzuba - Rosh Hanikra, Israel. Cur. Noa Melamed, Rivka Sinai, Kerni Am-Ad, Drora Dekel 1996 Menashe Kadishman - Art Front Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. Curator Fram Kitagawa. txt Pierre Restany Menashe Kadishman, /Nachshon Gallery, /Kibutz Nachshon. Curator: Yael Keini 1997 Shalechet- Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv Lea Nikel, Paintings / Menashe Kadishman, drawings and Sculptures - Beersheba Visual Art Center. Curator Haim Maor Lea Nikel, Painting / Menashe Kadishman, Sketching & Sculpting - The Gallery on the Cliff, Netanya. Curator Iris Kritzman Abblätterung - Affoliation - Shalechet - Hans Mayer Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany The Herd - National Art Gallery of China, Beijing. On behalf of Ora Namir Valley of Sadness - Tal der Traurigkeit - Dominican Cloister, Braunschweig, Germany 1998 Menashe Kadishman-Shalechet - Gallery Art Affairs, Amsterdam De Beyerd, Breda, Holland. Curator Frank Tiesing Valley of Sadness -Roemer und Pelizaeus Museum, Hildesheim, Germany The Herd - Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China The Herd - Guan Shanyue Museum of Art, Shenzen, China The Herd - National Art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand. Curator Iris Kritzman Menashe Kadishman - Shalechet - Austellungraum Hans Mayer, Berlin Menashe Kadishman - Image 1978-98- The Different Gallery, Tel-Aviv. Cur. Reviva Regev 1999 Sculpture 'Der Kuss' - Strasse der Sculpturen Paris-Moskow, Skulpturenweg Salzgitter-Bad & Braunschwig Cloister, Germany. Curator Gerd Winner Shalechet - Suermondt Ludwig Museum, Aachen, Germany. Curator Ulrich Schneider Homage to Bela and Ben Zion Kadishman, Beit Ouri and Rami Nechustan Museum, Kibutz Sdot Yaacov Meouhad, Israel. Curators Aviva Meromi, Ruth Shadmon The Herd - Menashe Kadishman - Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Painting Peace For 'The Sons of Abraham' - Givatayim Theatre, Tel Aviv. Curator Doron Polak Sculpture 'Scream' - Lola Beer Ebner Sculpture Garden, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 2000's 2000 De Kudde - The Flock - Vleeshal, Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem, Holland. Curator Mabel Hoogendonk Installation 'Morning Light' - Savonlinna Fortress, Helsinki, Finland The Herd - Ahouzat Bait Gallery, Raanana, Israel. Curator Bettine Amir Sculpture 'Birds’, Shiba Hospital, Tel Hashomer, Israel Avraham Binder / Menashe Kadishman Homage to the artist - Artists House, Tel Aviv. Cur. Hanna Kopler 2001 Menashe Kadishman - Herd” - Beit Kener, Rishon Lezion, Israel. Curator Lea Topler Sculpture - The Family Plaza, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem Sculpture 'My Silent Brother’, Memorial to Amir Meir- Raanana, Israel Sculpture ‘Motherland Landscape’ - Bank Hapoalim, Kikar Rabin, Tel-Aviv Permanent installation ‘Shalechet’ - Jewish Museum, Berlin 2002 Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv Menashe Kadishman - Women, The New Gallery Avni Institute,Tel-Aviv. Curator: Galia Yahav Menashe Kadishman ‘in the Valley of Sorrow’ - Kibutz Gallery Rosh Hanikra, Kibutz Lohamei Hagetaot Gallery, Israel. Curators Rivka Sinai, Tova Haverdi Kadishman in White - The Gallery of the Art Workshop, Yavne. Cur: Irit Levin,Doron Pollack The Herd - Okashi Museum of Art, old Acre, Israel. Curator Rachel Zemer 2003 Kadishman’s Herd in the Carmel - Hamud Elkara Gallery, Daliat Al Carmel, Israel. Curator Iris Kritzman Menashe Kadishman Moledet Motherland - Galerie im Prediger Schwaebisch Gmuend, Germany. Curator Gabriele Holthuis Drawings for the book “You Should Ring Twice”, by Natan Alterman, The Holon Theatre Gallery, Holon 2005 Kadishman Returns to the Valley - The Municipal Gallery Afula. Curator Shila Dvor Casdi Menashe Kadishman - Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Curator Mordechai Omer Menashe Kadishman / Prints - The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curators Mordechai Omer, Irit Tal 2006 Sculpture - Ramat Gan Menashe Kadishman - Art Gallery Hamud Al-Kara, Daliat el Carmel. Curator Zvika Israel Beit Gabriel, Kinneret, Israel. Curator Gideon Efrat Sculptures from the Storage - Office in Tel Aviv Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator Rachel Sukman