Pamela Levy

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Pamela Levy
Born 1949
Fairfield, Iowa
Died 2004
Jerusalem, Israel
Field Painting

Pamela Levy (1949-2004) was an Israeli artist.

Pamela Levy was born in in Fairfield, Iowa. She completed a B.A. at the University of Northern Iowa (1972).

In 1976 she immigrated to Israel where she started exhibiting her work in solo shows soon after. She received a Guggenheim Foundation grant (1980), the Jacques and Eugene O'Hana Prize for a young Israeli artist (1987) and the 1990 Israel Minister of Education and Culture Prize for Painting and Sculpture. She participated in group exhibitions at such venues as the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and held solo exhibitions at the Tel Aviv and Herzliyya art museums and art galleries in the United States, Germany, Australia and throughout Israel.

In 1996 she received a Heitland Foundation Grant, taking her to Hanover, Germany. In the subsequent year she was an Artist in Residence at the Canberra School of Art in Australia.

Levy died in 2004 in Jerusalem of heart failure.

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[edit] Solo Exhibitions

  • 1978 Russ Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • 1979 Debel Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
  • 1981 American Cultural Center, USIS, Jerusalem, Israel
  • 1981 Artists' House, Jerusalem, Israel
  • 1981 Alternate Space Gallery, New York, United States
  • 1982 Ahad Ha'am Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • 1985 Aika Brown Gallery, Artists' Studios, Jerusalem, Israel
  • 1987 Gimel Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
  • 1987 Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • 1989 Aika Brown Gallery, Artists' Studios, Jerusalem, Israel
  • 1990 Nelly Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • 1994 "Paintings, 1983-1994", Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel (catalogue[1])
  • 1995 Galerie im b.i.b., Hanover, Germany (catalogue)
  • 1995 Galerie Zonig and Mock, Hanover, Germany (cataloque)
  • 1996 Nelly Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • 1996 Kunstverein, Holzminden, Germany
  • 1997 Nelly Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • 1997 "Aquarelle und Olbilder", Kunstverein, Gifhorn, Germany
  • 1997 Photospace, Canberra School of Art, ANU, Canberra, Australia
  • 1999 "Paintings: Class Picture", Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, Israel (cataloque)
  • 1999 Nelly Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • 2001 "Paintings", Golconda Fine Art, Tel Aviv, Israel (catalogue)
  • 2002 "Woodcuts", Gallery of the David Yelin Teachers Academy, Jerusalem
  • 2003 "Pamela's Zoo", Golconda Fine Art, Tel Aviv, Israel (catalogue)

[edit] Illustrations

[edit] References

  1. ^ Even, Yael: "Pamela Levy: Paintings 1983-1994 (catalogue review)." Woman's Art Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Spring - Summer, 1997), p. 62-6?

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