Samuel Ackerman

Portrait

1951 Born in Mukacevo, Ukraine
1970 Graduated from Uzhgorod Art School for Monumental Painting
1971-73 Served in the Soviet Army
1973 Emigrated to Israel with his family, settled in Jerusalem
Since 1984 lives in Paris
Married, two daughters

ONE MAN EXHIBITIONS

1976 – Tel Aviv. Alexandrowicz Gallery
1977 – Tel Aviv. International Art Fair
1978 – Jerusalem. The Artists House
1983 – Jerusalem. The Artists House. The Hive of Scrolls
1983 –  Tel Aviv. Ascoli Gallery. Healing Trees
1984 – Bern. Loeb Gallery. Parable of Ties
1986 –  Paris. Galerie Jean-Claude Marcadé. Entelechie
1989 –  Wiesbaden. Galerie Anita Farber. Pictural organisms
1991 – Moscow. National Library for Foreign Languages. Bee Hive of Paradigms
1992 – St-Petersburg. National Library of Russia. The roots of Time
1995 –  Kiev. National Museum for Ukrainian Art. Uzhgorod-Paris
2000 –  Paris. Lavoir Moderne Parisien Theatre. Chernobyl Cow and other
Drawings
2000 –  Paris. Galerie K. A Unique Intervention
2000 –  Kiev. Contemporary Art Center. Shadow of Ashes
2000 – Czernowitz. The Ukrainian Art Museum. Meridian of Heart. In memoriam
of Paul Celan
2001 –  Haifa. Museum Mane Katz. Samuel Ackerman retrospective: A Jewish
Artist in Paris
2004. Kiev. Contemporary Art Center. A great game: Marcel Duchamp in Kiev.
2005. Paris. Galerie Art et Littérature. Ombres éveillées
2007. Budapest. Mucsarnok. Garments of the Earth. Presented by Minotaure
gallery, Paris-Tel-Aviv
2008. Paris, Galerie Minotaure, Les Habits de la Terre

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1970 –  Uzhgorod. Young painters of Zakarpatye
1973 –  Uzhgorod. Young painters of Zakarpatye
1974 –  Israel. Travelling exhibition of Immigrant Artists
1975 –  The Artists House. Olim 1
1975 –  Jerusalem. Residence of the President of the State of Israel. Immigrant Artists exhibition
1977 –  Jerusalem. Jerusalem Theatre. Jerusalem Artists
1977 –  Jerusalem. The Israel Museum. An Installation
1978 –  Amsterdam. The Artists House, Arti et Amiticiae. Jerusalem Artists
1978 –  Ashdot Yaakov. Nechushtan Museum. Leviathan Group
1979 –  Bochum. Bochum Museum. Twenty years of Independent Art in USSR
1979 –  Jerusalem. The Artists House. Leviathan Group
1979 –  Haifa. Haifa Museum of Modern Art. Biennale of Young Artists
1980 –  Jerusalem. The Israel Museum. Seven Facets of an Exhibited Garden
1981 –  Haifa. Haifa Museum of Modern Art. Biennale of Young Artists
1982 –  Jerusalem. Jerusalem Theatre. Leviathan Group
1983 –  Haifa. Haifa Museum of Modern Art. Triennial of Israeli Graphics
1983 –  Ein Hod. Yanco Dada Museum. Contemporary Israeli Graphics
1983 –  Jerusalem. The Artists House. Metaphysics
1984 –  Jerusalem. The Israel Museum. Art in the Mirror of Itself
1985 –  Tel-Aviv. The University of Tel-Aviv Gallery. Transformations
1986 –  Paris. Le Grand Palais. Salon des Beaux-Arts
1990 –  London. Barbican Art Center. Chagall to Kitaj
1993 –  La Rochelle. ARECI. Trois artistes
1995 –  Schaerbeek (Belgium). Hotel Communal. Abstractions
2004 –  Magdeburg (Allemagne). IV International Art-Festival
2005 –  Cagnes-sur-Mer (France). Château-musée Grimaldi. Artistes russes non-
conformistes aujourd’hui
2005 –  Magdeburg (Allemagne). “Jetzt”, V International Art-Festival
2006 –  Tel Aviv. Gallery Bineth. My Parisian All-Stars
2006 –  Jerusalem. The Israel Museum. The Divine Image. Depicting God in Jewish and Israeli Art
2007 –  Paris, Galerie Minotaure (Maison de l’Industrie), Moscou-Paris 1960-2000
2008 –  Kiev, Musée de l’Art Russe, Volonté de l’immense
2009 –  Paris. Phase Zéro. 96 propositions spatiales. Galerie Serge Aboukrat
2012 –  Rostov-sur-Don. Inspired by Velimir. Khlebnikov and the contemporary art. State Public Library of the Don region
Œuvres dans des collections publiques

Musée Russe, Saint-Pétersbourg
Musée d’Israël, Jérusalem
Musée d’Art Moderne de Haïfa, Haïfa
Musée National de l’Art Ukrainien, Kiev