Born in Ukraine in 1891 

Died in Tel Aviv in 1985 

Education

1910-1914 Studied painting at The Academy of Art in Kiev 

Prizes and Awards

1942 Dizengoff Prize from Tel Aviv Municipality

1959 Received the Israel Prize

1968 The first artist to win the Sandberg (?) Prize of Israeli Art From the Israel Museum, Jerusalem 

Solo Exhibitions 

1924 Technicum (Technion), Haifa

1925 “Menorah” Club, Jerusalem

1941 Habimah, Tel Aviv – Held on the occasion of the artist’s 50th birthday

1949 Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem

1951 Joseph Zaritsky – Retrospective Exposition, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

1952 Joseph Zaritsky – Retrospective Exposition, Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem

1955 Joseph Zaritsky, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

1956 Joseph Zaritsky, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

1976 Zaritsky-Watercolours 1920-1975, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

1981 Homage to Zaritsky, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

1984 Zaritsky, Tzuba – Summer 1983, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 

        Views of Tel Aviv from the Roof and the Window, University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv 

        Zaritsky – Retrospective, Tel Aviv Museum 

        Zaritsky – Recent Works, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

1992 Zaritsky – Watercolours, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv 
Selected Group Exhibitions 

1924 The Citadel, Jewish Artists Association, Jerusalem

1927 Modern Artists, “Ohel”, Tel Aviv

1930 Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem

1932 The 11, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

1936 General Exhibition of Palestine Artists, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

1947 The Seven, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

1948 Venice Biennale 
New Horizons, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

1953 7 Painters of Israel, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

1955 Israelische Kunst, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Also exhibited in Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

1957 New Horizons, The Museum of Modern Art, Haifa

1958 Ten Years of Israeli Painting, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

1963 New Horizons, Ein Harod Museum of Art

1964 Art Israel, 26 Painters and Sculptors, The Jewish Museum, New York – Circulated in the U.S.A and Canada 1964-65

1966 New Horizons – 1949-1963, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

1968 Israel a travers les ages, Musee du Petit Palais, Paris

1969 A Leap of Faith, The Art Gallery, State University of New York at Albany

1970 3 Israeli Artists, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London 
Israel on Paper, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Selected Collection, 1970, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

1971 Looking up, Memory Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York

1976 Jewish Experience in Twentieth Century Art, The Jewish Museum, New York

1979 Seven Artist in Israel, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

1981 Artists from Israel: 1920-1980, The Jewish Museum, New York 

Books

Jossef Zaritsky by Mordechai Omer, 240 pp., 134 b/w, 88 col. pl., published by Massada Ltd., Tel Aviv, 1987 

Zaritsky Watercolours, edited by Yeshayahu Yariv, 427 pp., 146 col. pl., 8 b/w, published by Gordon Gallery,

Tel Aviv, 1992