Yair Garbuz talks about his work - A Tour Guide is Not Without Honor Save in his Own Country
 

Lives and works in Ramat Gan 

1945 Born in Givatayim, Israel

1962-1967 Studied with artist Raffi Lavie, as well as with artists Moshe Propes and Yehiel Krize at the

Avni School of Art, Tel Aviv

Since 1973 Teaches at Hamidrasha School of Art, Ramat Hasharon and Beit Berl College, Kalmaniya

Since 1998 Head of Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College, Kalmaniya

Solo  Exhibitions

1967 Massada Gallery, Tel Aviv

1968 Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

1970 Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

1972 Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

1974 Yair Garbuz: Paintings, Drawing, The Tel Aviv Museum

1975 Didactic Art: New Works, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

1977 New Works, Sara Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem

        Selected Works on Paper, Debel Gallery, Jerusalem

1978 Hebrew Family Manuscripts, Hamidrasha School of Art, Ramat Hasharon; Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

1979 If Not a Giant, Then at least  in his Garden, Hakibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv

1980 Early Works, Tzavta Gallery, Tel Aviv
If Not a Giant, Then at least Selfish in his Garden, reconstructed exhibition, Dizengoff Center, Tel Aviv
The Evenings (Arabs) Pass By Quietly, Shenar Gallery, Tel Aviv

1981 Exhibition toward the publication of the book Ready Story Art, Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv
They Shut Down the Youth Centers and Went to Make War, Sara Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem

1986 Yair Garbuz Presents a Jew, Frenchman and Arab: New Works, The Tel Aviv Museum

1988 Paris – Tiberias, Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv

1989 The Gallery in Kibbutz Beeri

1990 Yair Garbuz: Paintings, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan

1991 Beit Uri and Rami Nehushtan Museum, Kibbutz Ashdot Yaacov Meuchad
New Works, The Gallery in Kibbutz Urim

1993 New Paintings, The Open Museum, Industrial Park, Tefen

        Buckets Shed Light on Streams and Aching Hands Change Their Mind, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
Reconstruction of two exhibitions: If Not a Giant, Then at least in his Garden and Didactic Art, Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv
In the Forest, The Study Gallery of the Art Department, University of Haifa

1995 Yair Garbuz, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv

1996 Léger, Gauguin, Jews, and Scraps, The Municipal Gallery, Kfar Saba

1998 Works on Paper, The Other Gallery, Talpiot College of Education, Tel Aviv
From the Series: Sad as Songs, The Municipal Gallery, Rehovot

2000 Laugh Guernica! Laugh!: Erich Kästner and the Third World, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv

        Yair Garbuz / Yehiel Krize – Two-Person Exhibition, The Art Institute Gallery, Oranim Academic College
It Said: Danger of Illustration, and Should Have Read: Horror, The Yavneh Art Workshop

2001 Europe Will Not Teach Us…, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv

        Youth and Fire, Florescent Gallery, Tel Aviv

2003 Carrying the Dead on Our Shoulders: East-European Elements in Yair Garbuz's Work, The Artists House, Tel Aviv

2004 From Afar You Shall See: Selected Paintings, Forty Years of Work, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

2005 "Restoration" and "what does the Painter Care", Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
        "Garbuz and Dorchin, The Joint Exhibition", The |Art Gallery, University of Haifa, Curator: Avishay Ayal (catalogue)     

        "Yair Garbuz - Presents Restoration", Beit Gabriel on the see of Galilee, Curator: Gideon Ofrat (Catalogue)

2006 "A Life of Rattle", the Open Museum, Industrial Park, Tefen and Omer, Curators: Ruthi Ofek and Amon Yariv

2008 "I Wrote a New Painting", Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

Selected Group Exhibitions

1967 Hakibbutz Layam Gallery, Tel Aviv

       10+ Group: Nude, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

1968 The Autumn Salon, The Tel Aviv Museum
10+ Group: For and Against, Gallery 220, Tel Aviv

1969 The Autumn Salon, The Tel Aviv Museum
10+ Group: Circle, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

1970 10+ Group: 10+ on Venus, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

1973 Twelve Original Prints by Israeli Artists, Mabat Gallery, Tel Aviv

1976 Four Artists: Deganit Berest, Tamar Getter, Yair Garbuz, Raffi Lavie, Sara Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem
Yair Garbuz – Henry Shelesnyak, The Museum of Art, Ramat Gan
Script in Plastic Art, Artists House, Tel Aviv
The Letter in Art, traveling exhibition, Omanut La'am

1978 Artist and Society in Israeli Art 1948-1978, The Tel Aviv Museum

1979 New Works, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
New Works, Sara Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem

1980 Exhibition of Jewish and Arab Painters for Peace, Equality and Understanding, Nazareth
Borders, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

1981 The Camera as a Brush, traveling exhibition, Omanut La'am
Israeli Prints from Burston Graphic Center, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

1982 A Tribute to Henry Shelesnyak, Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv Artists in Frankfurt, the Painters and Sculptors Association
An Open Response to the War: Gallery Artists and Guests, Radius Gallery, Tel Aviv

1983 The First Triennial of Israeli Graphic Art, Haifa Museum of Art
The Biennial of Graphic Art, Ljublijana, Yugoslavia
Israeli Prints, The Museum of Fine Art, Chile

1984 The C. Mayorkas Collection, The Gallery in Kibbutz Eilon; The Gallery in Kibbutz Cabri; The Gallery in Kibbutz Lohamei Haghetaot; Bat Yam Museum of Art
Art on Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Two Years, 1983-1984: Israeli Art – Qualities Accumulated, The Tel Aviv Museum

1985 Palestinian and Israeli Artists: Against the Occupation and For Freedom of Speech, Tel Aviv, Nazareth and Jerusalem
Recent Acquisitions 1982-1985, Haifa Museum of Modern Art
Milestones in Israeli Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

1986 The Want of Matter: A Quality in Israeli Art, The Tel Aviv Museum

1987 Art and Language, The Yavneh Art Workshop
Seven Artists from Israel, Galerie Palette, Zurich, Switzerland
Artist-Format, Format-Artist: Israeli Art in Big Format, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan

1988 Modern Drawing, Haifa Museum of Modern Art

        Still Life and Breathing, traveling exhibition, Omanut La'am
Homage to the Family Album, The Gallery of the Photography Department, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
A People Builds Its Land: Israeli History as Reflected in Art, Herzliya Museum

1989 Garbuz / Zinovich, The Gallery in Kibbutz Eilon
Political Art in Israel, The Jewish Museum, New York

1967 The Americanization of Israeli Art, Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv

1990 Health and Long Life: Humor in Israeli Art, traveling exhibition, Omanut La'am

        Political Signs, 1967-82, Ami Steinitz Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv

        Drawing: Beyond, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv

        Ten Years of Acquisitions, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

1991 Israeli Art Now: An Extensive Presentation, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Text-Image, Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod; The Municipal Gallery, Rehovot; The Municipal Gallery, Kfar Saba

1992 The Artist's Choice: An Exhibition of Bad Works, The Artists Studios, Tel Aviv
Concept, Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv

1993 Seamline: Political Art, The Corine Maman Ashdod Museum; The Art Gallery, University of Haifa; Yad Labanim Museum, Petach Tikva
Eye Contact (with Yaacov Dorchin and Raffi Lavie), Artists Studios, Tel Aviv
Paintings from the Givon Gallery Collection, Galerie Asperger, Strasbourg
My Heart is in the East, Artists Studios – Pyramid Gallery, Haifa

1994 Giantdwarf, The Municipal Gallery, Rehovot
The Raffi Lavie Collection, Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv
Who can Tell the Mighty Acts of Israel, Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv

1995 4/4: Four Artists, New Paintings, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv

1996 Henry Shelesnyak, Yair Garbuz: Two Friends, Unknown Works, Nelly Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv

1997 Hamidrasha: The Midrasha School Exhibition, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan

1998 Perspectives on Israeli Art of the Seventies, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

        90 Years of Israeli Art: A Selection from the Joseph Hackmey – Israel Phoenix Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Hebrew Work: The Disregarded Gaze in the Canon of Israeli Art, Mishkan Le'Omanut, Museum of Art, Ein Harod; traveling exhibition, the Israeli Forum of Art Museums
Positive Representations of the Other in Contemporary Israeli Art, Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod; Bat Yam Museum; Ashdod Museum; Municipal Art Gallery, Arad; Wilfrid Israel Museum, Kibbutz Hazorea

1999 Not to be Looked At: Unseen Sites in Israel Today, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem 
About Raffi, Hamidrasha Gallery in Tel Aviv – Nophar Gallery, Tel Aviv

2001 Storytellers, Peer – Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv

2002 Focus on Painting, Haifa Museum of Art
Imagine: Artists for Co-Existence, The Art Gallery, Um el-Fahem; Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
It Said: Danger of Illustration, and Should Have Read: Horror, Goren Art Gallery, The Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel, Jezreel Valley

2003 The Return to Zion: Beyond the Place Principle, Time for Art – Center for Art, Tel Aviv
Collectorship, a series of exhibitions from the Benno Kalev Collection, The Art Gallery, Memorial Center Kiryat Tivon; Bat Yam Museum; The Municipal Gallery, Rehovot

2004 The Ashkenazim, Hamidrasha Gallery in Tel Aviv
A Point of View, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Homage to Hanoch Levin, Haifa Museum of Art
Video Zero, Towards Cinema, an exhibition of video-art and artists' films, Haifa Museum of Art

2005 To be Looked at with One Eye, Close To…, Ashdod Art Museum 

Films

1974 Notes, 8 mm, no soundtrack, approx. 20 min

1975 12.5.75, 8 mm, asynchronous soundtrack, approx. 90 min
Brothers Maestro, 8 mm, asynchronous soundtrack, approx. 90 min

1978 If Not a Giant, Then at least in his Garden, 8 mm, asynchronous soundtrack, approx. 90 min

1979 A Painter, Arabic For Instance, 8 mm triptych, asynchronous soundtrack, accompanied by slide projection, approx. 25 min

1986 Forced to be Painting, video, synchronous soundtrack, approx. 3 hrs.

Books [Hebrew]

1976 Yair Garbuz, The Goldfish: Pages from a Musical, collected texts (self publication)

1977 Hebrew Family Manuscripts, signed and numbered edition (400 copies) (self publication

1981 Yair Garbuz, Ready Story Art (Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad)

1989 Yair Garbuz, Polish Forever (Tel Aviv: Zmora Bitan)

1996 Yair Garbuz, Paris Tel Aviv / From There to Here and From Here to There (Tel Aviv: Modan)

2000 Yair Garbuz, Biography in Pictures (Tel Aviv: Am Oved)

2004 Yair Garbuz, What a Beautiful Army, a book-album about popular art in IDF bases (Tel Aviv: Ministry of
Defense Publishing House) 

Prizes and Awards

1983 America-Israel Cultural Foundation grant for studies in the US

1989 Grant for an Artist-in-Residence at the Cité, Paris, The Council for Culture and Art

1992 The Mendel and Eva Pundik Prize for Israeli Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

1994 Sokolov Prize for Journalism presented to the editors of the satirical supplement Davar Acher

2000 Discount Bank Prize for Contemporary Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
The Minister of Culture Prize

2004 The Emet Prize for Art, Science and Culture, The A.M.N. Foundation for the Advancement of Science, Art and Culture, The Prime Minister's Office