Artists

Buky Schwartz

Available Work

Work

Exhibitions at GG

2010
Point of View
November 25, 2010 - January 7, 2010

Studio Visit

Biography

Born in Jerusalem, 1932
Died in Tel Aviv, 2009

1957-1959

Studied at Avni School of Art, Tel Aviv

1959-1962

Studied at Saint Martin’s School of Art, London

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1968

Tel Aviv Museum

1971

Israel Museum, Jerusalem

1976

“Mirror Sculptures”, Ok Harris Gallery, New York

1977

“Painted Projections”, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv

1978

“Videoconstructions”, Installation, OK Harris Gallery, New York

“Videoconstructions”, Installation, I.C.C., Antwerp, Belgium

1979

“Video Color Bars”, Akron Art Institute, OH

1980

“Videosculpture”, Winter Olympics, Lake Placid, NY

“Videoconstructions”, Installation, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

1981

“3 Video Works”, Art Museum, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA

“Fall 1981”, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

“3d Imprint”, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv

“3d Imprint”, Anthology Film Archives, New York City

1984

“Yellow Gate”, P.S. 1, Institute Of Art & Urban Resources, NY

“Airport Video”, International Arrivals Building, John F. Kennedy, New York

“Red Flags In The Snow”, Middlebury College, VT

1986

“Three Angles Of Coordination For Monitoring The Labyrinthian Space”, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA

“Video Spiral”, North Carolina Museum Of Art, Raleigh, NC

“T.V. Stripes on Tree Stumps”, American Museum Of The Moving Image, Astoria, New York

1989

“The Picture’s Surface and Form Of Detachment”, Delta Gallery (Hubertus Wunschik), Dusseldorf, Germany

“Mobius Strip, The Picture’s Surface, And Form Of Detachment, Spaces”, Cleveland, OH

“Air Lines”, Eric Stark Gallery, New York City

“Mobius Strip”, Kijkhuis, The Hague, Holland

1990

“Sony Presents Buky Schwartz”, 1990, The Ramat Gan Museum

“Video Space For a Blue House”, Eastern Washington University, Spokane

1991

“Video Sunflowers”, M.U.H.K.A. Museum, Antwerpen, Belgium

“Tel Aviv-New York, Interim Title”, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv

1992

“Venus Synchronicity”, Lutz Teutloff Gallery, Koln, Germany

1993

“Video Sculptures for the Sony Pavilion at Cebit”, Hanover, Germany

1995

“Facing Oneself”, Lutz Teutloff Gallery, Koln, Germany

1996

“A View From Above”, Video Installation, Harn Museum, Gainesville, FL

1997

“Foresthill ’97”, Umedalen Skulptur ’97, Umea, Sweden

1998

“In The Footsteps Of Yellow Triangle ’98”, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv

1999

“Kunst Kunst Li; Video Installation, In 2 Parts, With 300 Artificial Roses”, Neuruppin, Germany

2000

“4 Interactive Installations”, Avni School Of Art Gallery

2002

“Question Mark Mirror Installation”, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv

Selected Group Exhibitions

1966

“Venice Biannale”

1971

“Symposium Urbanum”, Nurenberg, West Germany

1974

“Beyond Drawing”, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

1975

“Storm King Art Center”, New York

1976

“Painting And Sculpture Today”, Indianapolis Museum

“Group”, Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York

1977

“Forms in Focus”, Co-Op City, New York

“Sculpture Now”, Potsdam, NY

1979

“Yellow Triangle, Re-Visions”, Whitney Museum, New York

1980

“Biennale de la Critique”, Palais De Beaux Arts, Charleroi, France

“Beyond Surface”, ICC, Antwerp, Belgium

“White Flags Triangle”, Landscape Sculpture, Tel Hai

1981

“Carnegie International”, Art Museum, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh

“In Real Time”, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, New York City

“Spring 1981”, Film/Video Installations, Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkill, NY

“Iz Bienal De Arte”, Medellin, Colombia

1983

“Videoconstructions Videotape”, Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil

“Yellow Diagonal”, Artpark, Lewiston, NY

1984

“Box 1984, Current Five” The Milwaukee Art Museum, WI

“A History Of Video Art”, The Museum Of Modern Art, New York

“T.V. On A Table”, Tel Aviv Museum

“T.V. Stripes 1985”, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Holland

1986

“Pink Roof, Engaging Objects: The Participatory Act of Mirrors, Mechanism and Shelters,” The Clocktower, New York

“Untitled 1986, Intericon 86,” Charlottenbourg, Copenhagen

“Through the Looking Glass, The Other Television: Video by Artists”, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN

1987

“Relay Stations”, Video Installation in Documenta 8, Kassel, West Germany

1988

“Forfera, New American Video Art: Expanded Forms,” And Exhibition with Nam June Paik and Bruce Nauman, Linz, Austria and Camerino, Italy;

curator: John Hanhardt, “Video See Saw, Trojan Horse, Video Art: Expanded Forms,” Whitney Museum At The Equitable Center, New York

1989

“Three Angles of Coordination for Monitoring the Labyrinthian Space 1985-1986”, Videosculpture Retrospective and Actual 1963-1969, Koln-Berlin

Zurich, Kolnischer Kunstverein, Koln, West Germany

“Three Points Of Observation, The Presence Of Absence: New Installations”, Independent Curators Incorporated, New York, Travelling Exhibition

1990

“Frieze 1990 (A Videosculpture)”, Paula Anglim Gallery, San Francisco

1993

“Sculpting The Spectator”, A Project For Construction In Process IV, Lodz, Poland

“Flying Marx, Monumental Propaganda”, Independent Curators Incorporated, New York

1994

“Along New Lines, A Drawing Exhibition”, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

1995

“Intervention In The Museum Space”, Museum of Modern Art

“Video Seesaw”, First Biennale, Kuang Ju, South Korea

1998

“Yellow Triangle ’79, Israeli Art In The Seventies”, Tel Aviv Museum

“Yellow Triangle ’79”, Collection of the Whitney Museum at the San Jose Museum, California

1999

“Yellow Star Of David”, Mirror Installation, Ikd International Kunstforum, Drewen, Germany

2000

“Collection, Arturo & Silvia Schwarz”, Tel Aviv Museum

“Group Drawing Exhibition”, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv

“Group 70’s-2000”, Nelly Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv

“Between Water & Sky”, 3rd Biennale of Installations, Haifa Museum of Art

2002

“Black Sun, The Boundaries of Sculpture”, The Open Museum, Tefen

2003

“Box # 1 (1968) Communication Interferences”, Haifa Museum of Art

Prizes and Awards

1961

House and Garden Prize, London

Sainsbury Award, London

1971

Nuremberg Urban Symposium Purchase Award

Dizengoff Prize, Tel Aviv Museum

Sainsbury Award, London

Deutscher Kritikerpreis, Berlin

1980

CAPS Fellowship

1983

NYSCA Video Art Award

1986

Mid Atlantic States Art Consortium Residency, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA

1987

Guggenheim Fellowship

1988

Sculpture Grant, National Endowment for the Arts

1989

L’immagine Elettronica, Annual International Prize for Videosculpture, Ferrara, Italy

1990

Guggenheim Grant for Publication

1992

Pollock-Krasner Grant for Videosculpture, New York

1995

Combining Art with Architecture Prize, Tel Aviv Foundation

2002

Combining Art with Architecture Prize, Tel Aviv Foundation

2007

Dani Sandel Prize, Tel Aviv Museum

Selected Collections

Israeli T.V. offices, Channel 2, Jerusalem
Tel Aviv Museum
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Whitney Museum, New York
Marine Company, Discount Bank, New York
Hara Museum, Tokyo
Sony Company, Koln, Germany
Beth Hatefutsoth, Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv University
American Jewish Museum, Philadelphia
Jewish Museum, New York
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
El Al Israel Airlines, Zurich
El Al Israel Airlines, Johannesburg
Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
Knesset (Parliament), Jerusalem
Hilton Hotel Tel Aviv
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot

Books

Judson, Bill. Buky Schwartz: VIDEOCONSTRUCTIONS. Academy Chicago Publishers, 2005.
Perry, Ted. Buky Schwartz: The Seeing I. Skokie: Olive Production and Publishing, 2004.