David reeb biography

David Reeb (b. 1952)

David Reeb was born in 1952 in Rehovot. Most of his work in the field of artistic printmaking is in screenprint. His work from the 1980s included biographical imagery alongside figures from Israeli culture, depicted in free lines, with reference to American Pop Art. His later prints are more traditional, featuring mostly still nature imagery.

Education
1976-1979 Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design, Jerusalem.

Awards And Prizes
1983 Jacques and Eugenie Ohana Prize for a Young Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo
1990-91, Minister of Education and Culture Prize for the Visual Arts
1991 America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Grant for Creativity in the Fine Arts
1994 Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1994 George and Janet Jaffin Prize for Excellence in Plastic Arts, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
1996 Kolb Award, Tel Aviv Museum of Art,Tel Aviv-Yafo
1997-1998, Mid-America Arts Alliance International Fellowship and Residency
2013 Ruth and Baruch Rapaport Prize for an established artist, Tel Aviv Museum o

David Reeb was born in Rehovot, Israel in 1952.

He has shown work in Documenta X at Kassel, the Ankara, Kwangju, Havana and Berlin Biennales, "In Focus: Living History," Tate Modern, London and in various museums and galleries in the U.S., Austria, Germany, Sweden and elsewhere. He has had one-person exhibitions at the Tel Aviv Museum, the Israel Museum (together with Miki Kratsman), Haifa Museum, Umm El Fahem Gallery, Stadtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Haus Am Lutzowplatz, Berlin and various other galleries and museums.

Some of his work consists of figurative paintings after photographs and video stills. While previously he used news photographers’ images, especially those of Miki Kratsman, since 2006 he has been making these paintings primarily after his own source material. Mainly during the 1980s and 90s he helped organise cooperative activities, generally in the form of common exhibitions, with Palestinian and Israeli artists.

Reeb is an activist against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. He has been document

David Reeb

Israeli-born artist

David Reeb

Born

דוד ריב


1952
NationalityIsraeli
Known forPainting
MovementIsraeli art

David Reeb (Hebrew: דוד ריב; born 1952) is an Israeli-born artist.

Biography

David Reeb was born in Rehovot, Israel in 1952.[1]

He has shown work in Documenta X at Kassel,[2] the Ankara, Kwangju, Havana and Berlin Biennales, "In Focus: Living History," Tate Modern, London[3] and in various museums and galleries in the U.S., Austria, Germany, Sweden and elsewhere. He has had one-person exhibitions at the Tel Aviv Museum,[4] the Israel Museum (together with Miki Kratsman), Haifa Museum, Umm El Fahem Gallery, Stadtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Haus Am Lutzowplatz, Berlin and various other galleries and museums.

Some of his work consists of figurative paintings after photographs and video stills. While previously he used news photographers’ images, especially those of Miki Kratsman, since 2006 he has been making these paintings primarily after his own source material. He also

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