Menashe Kadishman (b Tel Aviv, 1932). 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.

Selected One-Man Exhibitions
1965 Kadishman, Sculptures - Grosvenor Gallery, London. Curator Charles Spencer Harlow Arts Festival - Harlow, England 1967 Dunkelman Gallery, Toronto 1968 Goldberg Gallery, Edinburgh 1970 Menashe Kadishman / The 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 - 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 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 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 ICC, Antwerp Gallerie Fabien Boulakia, Paris 1985 Kadishman - Tatrama Gallery, Tel Aviv Sacrifice of Isaac - Sculpture and Painting, Jewish Museum, New York. Curator Susan Goodman Sacrifice of Isaac - 18th Biennale of Sao Paulo. Curator Amnon Barzel P.B.Van Voorst Van Beest Gallery, The Hague, Holland 1986 Sacrifice of Isaac - 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 Menashe Kadishman - Nohra Haime Gallery, New York 1989 Gallery Heyram-Semler, Paris 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 1992 Sculpture and Drawings - Annely Juda Fine Art, London 1993 Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf, Germany 1994 Luce De Mattino - Morning Light - Fattoria di Celle, collection Giuliano Gori, Pistoia, Italy Menashe Kdishman Curated by Hilgemannn - Gallery Art Affairs, Amsterdam, Holland Faret Tachikawa Art Project, Art Front Gallery, Tokyo. Curator Fram Kitagawa Drawing - Sculpture - Haifa Auditorium, Haifa Municipality. Curator Irit Miller Floor sculpture - Antin Square, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University Art Focus, Kibbutz Mahanaim, 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 1997 Shalechet - Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv Lea Nikel, Paintings / Menashe Kadishman, drawings and Sculptures, Beersheba Visual Art Center Lea Nikel, Painting / Menashe Kadishman, Sketching & Sculpting - The Gallery on the Cliff, Netanya Curator Iris Kritzman Abbl?tterung - Affoliation - Shalechet - Hans Mayer Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany The Herd - National Art Gallery, Beijing, China. Curator 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-Tal der Traurigkeit - 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 1999 Sculpture 'Der Kuss' - Strasse der Sculpturen Paris-Moskau, 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 De Kudde - The Flock - Vleeshal, Frans Halmuseum, Haarlem, Holland. Curator Mabel Hoogendonk Installation Morning Light - Savonlinna Fortress, Helsinki, Finland Ahouzat bait Gallery, Raanana, Israel. Curator Bettine Amir Sculpture 'Bird's, Shiba Hospital, Tel Hashomer, Israel Avraham Binder / Menashe Kadishman Homage to the artist - Artists House, Tel Aviv. Cur. Hanna Kopler 2001 Menashe Kadishman - Beit Kener, Rishon Lezion, Israel Sculpture, The Family Plaza, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem Sculpture 'My Brother is Silent’, Memorial to Amir Meir, Raanana, Israel 2002 Permanent installation ‘Shalechet, - Jewish Museum, Berlin Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
Selected Group Exhibitions
1958 Ten Years of Sculpture in Israel 1960 Young Contemporaries, London 1961 Symposium of European Sculptors - Kirchheim, Germany 1962 Irish Living Art Exhibition - Dublin International Exhibition of Small Bronze Sculpture - Paris 1963 Hamilton Painters and Sculptors - Hamilton Gallery, London 1964 Open Air Exhibition - Kenwood House, London 1965 Fifty Years of Sculpture - Grosvenor Gallery, London. Curator Charles S. Spencer 1966 Autumn Salon - Tel Aviv Museum 1967 International Sculpture Symposium - Toronto 5th Paris Biennale - Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris (First Sculpture Prize) Urban sculpture - London 1968 Documenta 4 - Kassel, Germany Open Air Sculpture Exhibition - City of London Festival Leicester University, England 1969 International Sculpture Symposium Montevideo, Uruguay (the Forest) A Leap of Faith - The Art Gallery, State University of New York Yellow Square, Valley of the Cross, Jerusalem 1971 Graphics Biennale - Skopje, Yugoslavia 1972 International Graphics Pavilion, Venice Biennale Landscape - Abstraction - Nature - Israel Museum, Jerusalem (Yellow Tree). Curator Yona Fischer Affidavit: Six Israeli Artists - Gallery House, London . Curator Zieglaub ? 1974 Beyond Drawing - Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Curator Meira Perry 1975 Graphotec, Berlin 1976 Own Eyes: Argov, Aricha, Meirovitz, Steimatsky, Feingersh, Kadishman - Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv 1977 Kunstnere Fra Israel / Ten Israeli Artists - Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark. Curator Yona Fischer Documenta 6 - Kassel, Germany Graphic Art by 30 Israeli Artists - The University Gallery, Tel Aviv University 1979 Schwimmende Plastik - Wilhelm-Lehmbruck, Museum der Stadt, Duisburg (Floating Sculpture). Curator Siegfried Salzmann Tokyo Print Biennale 1980 International Sculpture Symposium Washington DC (Yellow Square) Tel Hai 80 , Contemporary Art Meeting. Curator Amnon Barzel Borders - Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Curator Stephanie Rachum Jerusalem and the Israeli Printmaker - David's Tower, Jerusalem City Museum 1981 Young Art from Israel - Henie-Onstad Kunstsanter, Hoevikodden, Norway. Curator Stephanie Rachum Landscape: The Printmaker's View - Tate Gallery, London Here and Now - Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Curator Yigal Zalmona, Meira Perry Trends in Israeli Art1970-1980 - International Art Fair, Basel. Curator Michael Levin 1983 Tel Hai'83 : Contemporary Art Meeting. Curator Amnon Barzel Loan Sculptures and Recent Sculptures - Storm King Centre, New York 1984 Arte em Israel - Mus. of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro; Mus. of Art, Sao Paulo. Curator Amnon Barzel 80 Years of Sculpture in Israel - Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Curator Yigal Zalmona, Michael Levin Trois Peintres d'Israel - ICC, Antwerpen. Curator Yigal Zalmona 1985 Two Years : Qualities Accumulated - Helena Rubinstein Pavillion, Tel Aviv Museum Milestones in Israel Art - Israel Museum, Jerusalem Eilat in Israeli Art - Eilat Museum Nelly Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv Self-Portait in Print - Tel Aviv Museum Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv 18th Biennale of Sao Paulo. Curator Amnon Barzel 1986 Crossing the Border - Ha Tira Museum, Kibbutz Ga'ash The Want of Matter-A Quality in Israeli Art - Tel Aviv Museum. Curator Sara Breitberg-Semel Print into Print - Tel Aviv Museum The concerned Eye: Seven Contemporary Israeli Artists - Port of History Museum, Philadelphia. Curator Amnon Barzel 1987 Photograph Exhibition by Avraham Hay - Janco Museum, Ein Hod Inaugural Exhibition - Nohra Haime Gallery, New York Artist-Format, Format -Artist : Israeli Painting in Big Format - The Mus. of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan 1988 Nohra Hayme Gallery, New York The Art of Sculpture in Israel : in Search of Identity - The Open Air Museum, Tefen Upon One of The Mountains : Jerusalem in Israeli Art - The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curators Mordechai Omer, Uzi Agassi 1988-9040 Israeli Artists : Contemporary Sculpture and Drawing - Brooklyn Mus. N. Y.; Bass Mus. Miami Beach; Mus. of Modern Art Mexico City; Joods Historisch Mus. Amsterdam;Centro Congressi Stazione Marittima Trieste, Sala Illiria; Casa della Citta Roma. Curators Reviva Regev, Linda Konheim Kramer 1989 Olympic Sculpture Garden Seoul, Korea (Sculpture : Sacrifice of Isaac) 1990 The Sculpture Biennale of Ein Hod Chagall to Kitaj : Jewish Experience in 20th century Art - Barbican Art Gallery, London. Curator John Hoole 1991 Place and Mainstream : Contemporary Israeli Sculpture - The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea The Presence Of The Absent, The Empty Chair in Israeli Art - The Genia Schreiber University Art Galery, Tel Aviv. Israeli Art Now - An Extensive Presentation - Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv Museum of Art. 1992 The Ayala Zacks-Abramov Collection - Israel Museum, Jerusalem Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv Museum Israeli Contemporary Prints - Municipal Mus. of Graphic Art, Machida; The Miyagi Prefecture; The Nogizaka Art Hall, Japan. 1993-95 Arte Contemporaneo Israeli - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires 1994 Tel Hai '94 : Contemporary Art Meeting . Curator Gideon Ofrat The Sculpture Biennale of Ein Hod 1994 1995 Couplet - Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Humanism and Technology - National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea From The Rita and Arturo Schwartz Collection of Israeli Art - Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Tel Hai 75 years - Tel Hai Museum. Curator Batia Gaye 1996 Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam 7 Artists in 7 Sucot - Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv. Cur. Buki Grinberg Self Portraits, Tel Aviv Museum Menashe Kadishman, Dani Karavan, Buky Schwartz - Julie M. Gallery1997 Jan Lievens: The Sacrifice of Isaac - Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Cur.Mordechai Omer, Doron J. Lurie 1997-98 Animal Kingdom, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, USA1998 To the East - Orientalism in the Arts in Israel, Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Curator Yigal Zalmona Perspectives on Israeli Art of the Seventies, Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Curator Mordechai Omer 90 Years of Israeli Art, A Selection from the Joseph Hackmey-Israel Phoenix Coll. - Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Tikkun: Aspects in Israeli Art of the Seventies - Genia Schreiber University. Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University. 50/fifty Israeli Art From Bay Area Collections - The Jewish Museum San Francisco. 80 Artistes autour du Mondial - Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris 1998/99 Contemporary Israeli Art: Three generations, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Brunei Gallery, London; the National Gallery, Athens; Galeria Etaj 3/4, Bucarest; Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden. Curator Mordechai Omer, Irit Hadar 1999 90th anniversary of Tel aviv - Yafo : Contemporary Cityscapes - Israeli and American Artists, Tel Aviv Museum of Art. 2000 I have a dream, Center for Art and Science, Holon, Israel Sculpture Project Wetering Plantsoen, Reflex Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland Milestones for peace, Tel Aviv Performing Art Center. Curator Doron Polak Avraham Binder - Menashe Kadishman homage to the artist - Artists House Tel Aviv Green not cement - Artists follow poet H.N. Bialik, Beit Bialik Tel Aviv. Dorchin, Hecker, Kadishman, Schwarz - works on Paper - Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv The Vera, Silvia and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Contemporary Art, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Curator Ahuva Israel 2001 Israeli Art-Modern - Messages to the New Millenium, The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan. Curators T. Sakai, G. Bar Or Love at first Sight - The Vera, Sylvia, and Arturo Schwarz Collection, Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Curator Amitai Mendelsohn Bringing Life to Color, Penguins project, CreoScitex, Israel Izunim - Art and Justice - Tel Aviv Court of Justice. Curator Orna Yair Imagine - Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv Prizes and Awards 1960 America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship 1961 Sainsbury Scholarship, London 1967 First Prize For Sculpture, 5th Paris Biennale 1978 Sandberg Prize, The Israeli Museum, Jerusalem 1981 The Eugene Kolb Prize For Israeli Graphic Art, the Tel Aviv Museum Prize of the Jury, Norwegian International Print Biennale, Fredrikstad 1984 The Mendel Pundik Fund Prize For Israeli Art 1995 The Israel Prize for Plastic Arts 2002 Honorary Fellowship Award, Tel Aviv Museum of Art