Boaz Vaadia - About the Artist - Résumé
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Boaz Vaadia - About the Artist - Résumé |
Born: November
13, 1951; Israel
Resides: New York, New York, U.S.A.
Education: Brooklyn Museum Art School, Brooklyn, NY, 1976-77
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, 1975-76 Avni Institute of Fine Arts, Tel-Aviv,
Israel, 1967-71
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Selected Solo Exhibitions: 2008 Connaught Brown, London, England. 2006 Eckert Fine Art, Naples, FL. 2005 CaldwellSnyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2004 Miriam Shiell Fine Art, Toronto, Canada. 2003 Kraft Lieberman Gallery, Chicago , Illinois. 2002 Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL. 2001 Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia. 2000 Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL. 1997 Imago Gallery, Palm Desert, California.
1996 Buschlen Mowatt Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
Canada. 1995 Allene Lapides Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico. 1994 O.K.. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY. 1993 Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia.
1992 O.K.. Harris Works of Art, New York,NY. 1991 Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL. 1990 Hokin Kaufman Gallery, Chicago, IL. 1989 O.K.. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY. 1989-88 Sculpture Court Installation, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY. 1988 Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL. 1987 Philadelphia Museum of Judaica, Philadelphia PA. 1986 O.K.. Harris Works of Art New York, NY. 1985 Broadway Windows, New York University, New York, NY. 1984 Julie M. Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel 1982 Farthing Gallery of Art, Appalachian State University ;Boone, NC. Elise Meyer Gallery, New York, NY. 1980 Julie M. Gallery, New York, NY. 1979 Elise Meyer Gallery, New York, NY. 1978 Sculpture Court, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY. 1976 Hundred Acres Gallery, New York, NY. 1972 Yad-Labanim Museum, Petah-Tiqva, Israel.
Outdoor Installations/Public Art:
2005 Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA. Long term installation of Ammi'el and Ba'al on loan from the Boaz Vaadia Museum Collection 2004 Time Warner Center - South Tower Entrance, New York, NY - installation of Asaf and Yo'ah. 2003-2005 Nassau County Museum of Art Roslyn Harbor, NY. Long term installation of Shaul and Rahel and Binyamin on loan from private collector 1998Chicago Symphony Sculpture Garden at Ravinia, Chicago IL - permanent installation of David and Yonatan. 1997 Philharmonic Center For the Arts, Naples, Florida Permanent installation of Meshullemet and Menashshe. 1995 The White House, First Lady's Sculpture Garden, 20th Century Sculpture, Southern Region, exhibition featuring Zur With Dog, on loan from the Norton Museum. Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Museum, Japan, permanent installation of Piltay & Pashhur. 1993 The Monterey, 175 E. 96th St. permanent installation of outdoor sculpture,Yakhin, in front of residential apartment building, New York City, NY. 1992 Hakone Open Air Museum, Utsukushi-ga-hara Open Air Museum, Japan, permanent installation of outdoor sculpture, Moriyya, outdoor sculpture garden, Japan. West Palm Beach Art in Public Places, in cooperation with The Norton Gallery of Art, installation of Avram with Dog & Ten Sheep, West Palm Beach, Florida. Arlington County Beautification Program, permanent installation of sculpture David Haggit & Adoniyya, public private partnership between Arlington County and La Salle partners, sited at 1300 N. 17th Street, Rosslyn, Virginia ; sculpture commissioned by La Salle Partners through an invited competition with a selection panel consisting of Arlington County officials, developers, art professionals , and a landscape architect. 1988 Carnegie Park Building, 200 E. 94th St, New York, New York, permanent installation of outdoor sculpture, Omri & Ah'av , in the park of a residential apartment building, New York City, New York.
Selected Group Exhibitions: 2005 Eckert Fine Art, Naples FL 2004 Scott White Contemporary Art, Telluride, CA 2003 "Art of the 20th Century", NY, Lilian Heidenberg 2002 "Art of the 20th Century", NY, Lilian Heidenberg 2001 Florida
State University Sesquicentennial Sculpture
Exhibition, Tallahassee, FL. 2000 "Sculpture
for the Outdoors IV", Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA. 1999 Imago
Gallery,Palm Desert,California. 1998 "Milestones Israeli Sculptures 1948-1998",
The Open Museum, Tefen, Israel. "Art Miami 98", Elaine Baker Gallery. 1997 Taipei Art Fair, Taiwan, Buscheln
Mowatt Gallery. 1997-96 Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, Florida. 1996 Buschlen Mowatt Gallery, Vancouver,
B.C. Canada. 1995 The White House, First Lady's Sculpture
Garden, 20 th Century Sculpture,Southern Region. 1994 Hakone Open Air Museum, Japan. Open Museum at Tefen, Israel. 1993 F.I.A C. in Paris, France. 1992 Fay Gold Gallery Atlanta, Georgia. 1991 Centerpieces, Norton Center, Center
College, Danville, KY. 1990 Figurative Abstraction, Helander Gallery,
Palm Beach, FL. 1989 Best of Season, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL. 1987-86 Origins , Bronx River Gallery, Bronx
NY. 1986 Unaffiliated IV, Hillwood Art
Gallery, Long Island University,NY. Contemporary Primitivism, Gallery
of Contemporary Art , Colorado Springs, CO. 1986-85 Contemporary Pedestal Sculpture,
( touring to: ) The Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa,
AL. 1985 Spiritual Climates, Thorpe Intermedia
gallery, Sparkill, NY. 1984 Sculpture Center, New York, NY. 1983 A.I.R. Gallery, New York Equitable
Gallery, New York, NY. 1984-82 A.R.E.A. Ward's Island, Manhattan
Psychiatric Center, NY. 1983-82 Sacred Artifacts, Objects of Devotion, Alternative Museum, New York, NY. 1982 The Monument Redefined, Gowanus Annual I ,New York, NY. 1981 Vrije University of Brussels, Belgium.
1980 Tel-Hai College, Upper Galilei, Israel. 1980 80 Washington Square East Galleries,
New York University, New York,NY. 1979 The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Outgrowth,
1980-79 Outside the City Limits,
circulated by the Gallery Association of New York, ( touring to: ) 1978-77 Outside the City Limits, Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkill, NY. 1977 Artists -in Residence, Bear Mountain
Inn, NY. 1975 Youdfat Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel. 1974 Yad-Labanim Museum, Petah-Tiqva, Israel. 1973 City Museum, Ramat -Gan, Israel.
Selected Collections: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Grants/Fellowships/Awards: 1992 Utsukushi-ga-hara
Open Air Museum Award, Japan.
Media Coverage: 1995 CNN Headline News, " Zur
with Dog" sculpture at White House broadcast nationally. 1993 West Palm Beach Television News Coverage, Avram with Dog & Ten Sheep. 1980 Out of Rock, 30 minute documentary film by J. Keydel and A,. Bernstein of Boaz Vaadia & work. 1979 Boaz Vaadia: An Interview, 30 minute film by D. Shai for Manhattan Cable T.V.
Selected Bibliography: Newspaper
Debora Gilbert, "Sculpture at Time Warner Center", "Greenline" October 8-21, 2004.
Chaim Adroker, "Serenity in Layers". "Haaretz"June 8, 2004 Michael Schwartz (phot.) "Waiting for a Lift" The Daily News, New York, NY April 30, 2004 Kim, Jae-Ha, "Kraft Lieberman Gallery", "Chicago Sun Times", September 5, 2003. Nahshon, Gad, "Boaz Vaadia,", "The Jewish Post," March 2003 Nahshon, Gad, "Boaz Vaadia" , "The Jewish Post," September 2002 Gould, Genia, "Sculptor Harvests Brooklyn Boulders as Materiel For Art", "The New York Times", July 2, 2000 Smith, Janet, "Westender", "Art Attack", August 6, 1998 "The Vancouver Sun", Editorial, July 28, 1998 "Westender", "Amateur Aficionados Give Sculpture Show Thumbs Up", August 13, 1998 Brunst, Stanley Scott, Michael, "The Vancouver Sun", " What is Art? What is Not?", July 22, 1998 Roslyn News "Bezalel Retrospective at Temple Beth", September 14, 1995 Armitage, Diane "Critical Reflections", The Santa Fe Monthly p. 58 June 1995 Naples Daily News, "Collectors Corner", February 1997 Nahshon, Gad "From Gat Rimon to the White House", The Jewish Post, February 1996 Cooper, Michael " As Jade is to China, Rubble is to Williamsburg " The New York Times, NY,NY July 9,l995 p.10 ill. Abatt, Corinne. " Art Guru Visits the Midwest" Birmingham Eccentric, Birmingham MI. October 11, 1990. ill. Artner, Alan G. " At the Galleries: Winn's Rural Visions Evolve Poetic Grace " Chicago Tribune, Chicago Il. March 23, 1989.p. 13C ill. Gamarekian, Barbara. " Primitive Visions in Group Art Show" New York Times, New York, NY. June 8, 1986.ill Ligocki, Gordon. " Ancient Forms of Natural Stone Stir Strange Feelings " The Times, Hammond, IN. April 14, l989.p. D3 ill. Hurlburt, Roger." When Worlds Collided" Sun Sentinel, October 11. l992. ill. Raynor, Vivien. " Works with Shadings of Pygmalion" The New York Times, New Jersey Edition. January 28, 1990.p. 16. Rabi, Yitzahaq. " Vaadia in a dialogue with stone " , Maariv in America, July 23, l993, p. 16 Schwan, Gary . " Dogs, lambs head downtown ", The Palm Beach Post, October 2, l992. ill. Shaked, Shlomit. " Back to the Stone Age" Maariv, Israel. February 15, l989. ill. Sjostrom, Jan. "10-ton sculpture unveiled in WPB" Palm Beach Daily News, Palm Beach, Fla., Oct. 3, l993 Sjostrom, Jan." Sculptor 'draws' from earth" Palm Beach Daily News,Palm Beach , Florida, January 3, 1993 Sozanski, Edward J. " The Arts: The Smallest Presentation Steals the Show at Fleisher" Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA .January 29, l987. p. 4D ill. Weinstein, Ann. " Big Apple Serves Up an Exciting Slice of Modern Art" Roanoke Times & World News, Roanoke VA. April 1, l990.p.6 Yellin, Deena, "Down to Earth", The Jewish Week p. 16-17, August 18, 1995 n.a. " Israeli sculptor, Boaz Vaadia Exhibits in Soho Gallery" Israel Shelanu, New York December 12, 1986. ill.
Selected Bibliography: Books/Catalogues:
Chicago Contemporary & Classic, Festival Hall, Navy Pier, Chicago IL, 2005
Walk Arlington in Rosslyn, Ma and Guide, 2004 Benzano, Gabi, Boaz Vaadia - Outdoor Sculptures, Raanana, Israel, The College of Art Studies, 2001 Finn, David, 20th-Century American Sculpture in the White House Garden, NY, NY, Abrans, 2000, p141, ill39 Art Miami, Elaine Baker Gallery, p 92 1999 Kendal, Nigel, Ed. "TimeOut Tokyo Guide," ill p.101. Barzel,Amnon. Art in Israel, Milan, Italy: Giancarlo Politi Editore, 1988 Collischan, Judy. Boaz Vaadia, Stone Sculpture, New York, NY: OK Harris Works of Art, Helander Gallery,Hokin Kaufman Gallery, 1992 Crumlish, Rebecca Kelley. Other Gods: Containers of Belief, Syracuse, NY: Everson Museum of Art, 1986. Kingsley,April. Boaz Vaadia, Five Years, New York, NY: Elise Meyer Inc.1981 Van Wagner, Judy Collischan. Public Art Program 1985-1988, Brookville, NY: Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, C.W. .Post Campus, l988. Van Wagner, Judy Collischan. Unaffiliated Iv, Greenvale, NY: Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, 1986 n.a. Art at Gateway Center, Second Annual Sculpture Exhibit, Newark, NJ: Prudential Art Program, 1991 n.a. Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago IL, 1990.p.192,193. n.a. Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago IL, 1989.p.200,201. n.a. The Fine Art Index, l992 North American Edition, International Art Reference Inc., Chicago, IL, l991. n.a. The Jewish Museum 1987-1990, New York, NY: The Jewish Museum, l991.p.50. n.a. Twentieth Century American Sculpture at the White House:Exhibition II, 1995
Selected Bibliography: Periodicals
South Florida Times, 2005 Preview, Adrienne Garnett, Cover p10-11. |
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Boaz Vaadia and wife Kim pose |
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Avram with Dog & Ten Sheep |
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August 29th, 2000 |
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La Salle Partners, Rosslyn, VA
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