Bio
Collections
Contacts

BORN

Jerusalem, 1953


EDUCATION

1983 - M.F.A. Yale University School of Art and Architecture

1980 - B.F.A. Bezalel Academy of Art and Architecture, Jerusalem


PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS

Against the Odds
Ammunition Hill, Jerusalem

Gathering at Mount Sinai
Jewish Theological Seminary, New York

Women's Zodiac
Women's League for Conservative Judaism JTS, New York


EXHIBITIONS

Traveling
1998
Against the Odds - The Israeli War of Independence

1995-1998
Landscapes of Israel
Chase-Freedman Gallery, Hartford
Philadelphia Museum of Judaica
Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem

Personal
1995
Landscapes of Israel
Adine Fine Art Gallery, New York

1992
The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain
Jerusalem Theater, Jerusalem

1991
Landscapes
Milton Weill Gallery, 92nd Street "Y"
New York City

The Jews of Spain
Yeshiva University, New York City

1990
Jerusalem Day Celebration
New York City Hall, New York City

1989
Avner Moriah
Cornell University Gallery

1989
Avner Moriah at The Forum Gallery
New York City

1988
Avner Moriah at Galerie Samuel Lallouz
Montreal

1987
Avner Moriah at Ruth Siegel Gallery
New York City

Avner Moriah
Smith College, Northampton

1986
Avner Moriah at Ruth Siegel Gallery
New York City

1985
Avner Moriah at Jamie Szkoke Gallery
New York City

1984
Avner Moriah at Bertha Urdang Gallery
New York City

Two-person
1996
Landscapes
New England Center for Contemporary Art

1993-94
Landscapes of Israel
Ibero American-Israeli Cultural Foundation

1992
Jerusalem Landscapes
Traveling Exhibit in Israel

Israeli Contemporary Landscapes
Expo '92, Seville Spain

Sepharad
Vision Gallery, Belgrade
Horace Richter Gallery, Tel Aviv

Expulsion of the Jews from Spain
Worldwide Traveling Exhibit

1991
Soldiers and Civilians
National Cultural Hall, Tel Aviv

1988
In the Shadow of Conflict:
Israeli Art in the 1980s

The Jewish Museum, New York

Earth Day
State Legislature Gallery, Hartford

Landscapes
State Legislature Gallery, Hartford

Group
2001
Krasdale Galleries

1988
Canton Art Institute, Ohio

Northwestern University, Chicago

Mary and Leigh Block Gallery

New England Center for Contemporary Art

Milton Weill Gallery, 92nd Street "Y"
New York City

The Rotunda of the U.S. Capital
Washington, D.C.

The Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal

Star Gallery, Boston

The Philadelphia Art Alliance

The International Monetary Fund
Washington, D.C.

Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art

The Jewish Museum, New York City

University of the South, Sewanee, TN

1987
Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York City

Art Institute of Boston

Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA

1986
Pump House Gallery, Hartford

Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York City

1985
Contemporary Gallery of Art, Los Angeles

Connecticut College, New London

1983
Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York

1982
General Electric Corporate Headquarters, Connecticut

1979
American-Israel Cultural Foundation
New York City


AWARDS, COMPETITIONS and GRANTS

1989
Jewish Memorial Foundation Grant

1988
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

Connecticut Commission on the Arts

1987
ArtQuest '87

1986
ArtIsrael in the 80s

1983
National Drawing Competition,
Trenton State College

1982-83
Yale Scholarship

1980-81
Israel Commission on the Arts Scholarship

1979-80
American-Israel Cultural Foundation Grant


REVIEWS, CATALOGUES AND INTERVIEWS

Reviews

The Five Hundredth Anniversary of the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain

Israeli Contemporary Landscapes Expo '82
Seville, Spain
War in Israeli Art, Studio Magazine

Creative Conflict, St. Petersburg Times Avner Moriah, Tampa Tribune

Review, The Jerusalem Post

Avner Moriah at Ruth Siegel, Art in America

Avner Moriah at Gallerie Lallouz, La Presse, Montreal

Review, The New York Times

Review, The Hartford Courant

Avner Moriah at Ruth Siegel, Art News

Review, The Day, New London, CT

Avner Moriah at Bertha Urdang, Art in America

Catalogues

In the Shadow of Conflict; Israeli Art in the '80s

General Electric Corporation Art Collection

Images of Jerusalem by Avner Moriah

Art Quest '87

ArtIsrael in the '80s

Interviews

Avner Moriah, Spectrum Cable TV


COLLECTIONS

Museum Collections

The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell Univ.

The Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

The Jewish Museum, New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Skirball Museum, Los Angeles

Corporate Collections

AIOC Corporation, New York

Balfour Investments, New York

Continental Grain Corporation, New York

Dow Jones Corporation, New York

Family Management, Inc., New York

Forms and Worms, Inc., Connecticut

Kensington Publishing Corporation, New York

NPV Capital Partners, New York

Radius Ventures, LLC, New York

Shamrock Holdings, California

Venture Enterprises, New York


Institutional Collections

Hadassah Organization, New York

Hebrew Union College, New York

Jewish Theological Seminary, New York

Moriah School, New Jersey

New Israel Fund, New York

Park Avenue Synagogue, New York

United Jewish Appeal, National Headquarters

United Jewish Appeal, New York