BIOGRAPHY
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1947
• Born Casablanca, Morocco
1969
• Avni School of Fine Arts, Tel Aviv, Israel
1970
• Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
• Lives and works in New York City
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005
• Drawing 1978-2005, Mills College, Oakland, CA
2003
• OSP Gallery, Boston, MA
2002
• Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, NY
• Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
2000
• Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
• Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
• Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
1999
• Miller/Block Gallery, Boston, MA
1998
• Todd Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995
• Miller/Block Gallery, Boston, MA
• *Yoshii Gallery, New York, NY
1993
• Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich
1988
• Galerie Gilbert Brownstone, Paris
1978
• Galerie Denise René, Paris
1977
• Galerie Denise René, New York, NY
1975
• Galerie Denise René, Paris
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
• 20 Years, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
• About Face, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York City, NY
• Summer Shortcuts: A Drawing Forecast, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
2008
• *Drawn to Detail, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
• Horror Vacui, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY
• Unplugged, one, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
• Delineation, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX
2007
• microwave, five, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
• INK!, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA, Curated by Sarah Holloran
• Pattern vs. Decoration, Hosfelt Gallery, New York, NY
• Text Messages, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY
• Salon de coiffure, La Nouvelle Athènes, Paris, France, Organized by Vanessa Suchar
• Drawn to the Edge, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY
2006
• Moment by Moment: Meditations of the Hand, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
• Drawings (three-person exhibition with Bruce Conner and Mark Lombardi), Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
• On Line: Contemporary Drawing, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA
• *Transforming Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings, Part Two, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
• *Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
• The Broida Collection, The National Gallery, Washington, D.C. (forthcoming)
• Word into Art—Artists of the Modern Middle East, The British Museum, London, UK
2005
• Jacob El Hanani, Renato Ortega, OSP Gallery, Boston, MA
• Building and Breaking the Grid, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
• *Decelerate, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
• R3: Reading, Ritin, Rithmetic, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, NY
• Drawing, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• Dating Data, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
• Paper, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
2004
• Troy Story, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Intense Focus, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
• On Paper, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
2003
• Paper, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Recent Acquisitions: Works on Paper, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
• Vision and Revision: Art on Paper since 1960, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
• Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
• Aligned, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY
2002
• *47th Bienniale Exhibition: Fantasy Under Foot; Corcoran Biennale, Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, DC
• The Microwave, Cristinerose/Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
• Blobs, Dots, Wiggles, Webs & Crustillations, The Work Space, NY
• Snapshots, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Litchfield, CT
• Acquiring Taste, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
• In The Details, Steven Schlesinger Gallery, New York, NY
• Oeuvres Sur Papier, Galerie Denise Rene, Paris, France
2001
• Repetition in Discourse, The Painting Center, New York, NY
• Finely Drawn: A Recent Gift of Contemporary Drawings, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
• By Hand: Pattern, Precision & Repetition in Contemporary Drawing, California State University, Long Beach, CA
• Jacob El Hanani & Orit Raff, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Compelled, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
• *Drawings on Language, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH
• Re: Drawing, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont NY
2000
• Morocco: Jews and Art in a Muslim Land, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
• Collecting Drawings, Not Artists: Gifts from the Collection of Sarah-Ann and Werner H. Kramarsky, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge
• Joe Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
• Drawing on Tradition, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
• Horror Vacuui, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
• Fixations: The Obsessional in Contemporary Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
• L'Elemento Verbale Nell'arte Contemporanea, Galleria Martano, Turin and Galleria Milano, Milan, Italy. In collaboration with Esso Gallery, NY
• More, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
1999
• Drawings, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
• Great Drawing Show 1550 - 1999, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles,CA
• New Space, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Drawing Rules, Joe Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
• Drawings and Essay, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
• Microwave, 123 Watts Gallery, New York , NY
• Petits Formats, Yoshii Gallery, New York, NY
• Sheer Abstraction, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
• Scripta Manent, Esso Gallery, New York, NY
• Ainsi de Suite, Contemporary Art Center, Sète, France
• Die Kunst der Linie, Landesgalerie, Oberosterreich, Linz, Austria
1998
• Seventies, Tel Aviv Museum, Israel
• Edward R. Broida Collection, Orlando Museum of Art, Florida (catalog)
• Le Dessin en procès, Château d'eau, Bourges, France (catalog)
• Artists Using Writing, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
• Growing Obsession, Dorsky Gallery, New York, NY (brochure)
1997
• Jacob El Hanani & Roland Flexner: Ink on Paper, Serge Ziegler Gallery, Zurich
• Obsession Plus Devotion, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Word to Word, Linda Kirkland Gallery, New York, NY
• Tracery, Betsy Senior Gallery, New York, NY
• Art Writing, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
• Individuals on Paper, Deven Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
• Paper Support: Recent Acquisition, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
1996
• The Rational World, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• A Labor of Love, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
• Diary of a Human Hand, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, New York
• 96 Works on Paper, The Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
• Tangles, Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA
• Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
1995
• Gridluck, Marge Goldwater, Inc., New York, NY
• Keeping in Touch, Daphan Naor Gallery, Jerusalem
• Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
1994
• Conclusions Drawn, Miller/Block Gallery, Boston, MA
• Rolywholyover, A Circus, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Soho, New York
• Little Things, Art in General, New York, NY
• Le Temps d'un dessin, Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Lorient, France
• From the Sublime to the Meticulous, Davis-McClaine Gallery, Houston, TX
1993
• Works on Paper, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY
• Five Artists from Israel, John Stoller Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
• Paintings, Gallery Schlesinger, New York, NY
• Jacob El Hanani, Moshe Kupferman: Drawings, Bronfman Center for the Arts, Montreal, Canada (brochure),
1992
• *Drawn in the Nineties, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
• *S.E.Q.E.N.C.E., Ellen Miller/Kate Block Fine Art, Boston, MA
1991
• *Existence, Passage and the Dream, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
• Marking/Time, The Drawing Center, New York, NY (brochure)
1989
• Small Scale Abstraction, Art in General, New York, NY
1987
• *Trends in Geometric Abstract Art, Tel Aviv Museum
1986
• *The Disciplined Spirit, Exit Art, New York, NY
1985
• Works on Paper, Gabrielle Bryers Gallery, New York, NY
1984
• *Selections from the McCrory Collection, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
1983
• New Acquisitions, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
1982
• Printing and Writing, The Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, NY
1981
• *Hebrew Micrography: One Thousand Years of Art in Script, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1979
• *Oeuvres Contemporaines des Collections Nationales, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris
1978
• *L'Art en France de Mondrian et Marcel Duchamp à Nos Jours, curated by Denise René, Basel Art Fair, Switzerland
1977
• *Recent Gifts and Purchases, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1976
• Invitational, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
*Catalogue
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007
• Schwendener, Martha, "Art in Review: microwave, five," The New York Times, August 24
• Newhall, Edith," Drawings that dot the 'i' in Ink: Complex and detailed work, shown at Gallery Joe ," The Philadephia Inquirer, July 20
• Fallon, Roberta ,"Review: INK!," Philadelphia Weekly , July 18
• Schmerler, Sarah,"Review: Text Messages, Adam Baumgold," ArtNews, January
• Rice, Robin,"Drawings: Gallery Joe, Philadelphia," ArtNews, January
2006
• Perez-Oramas, Luis, Transforming Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings, Exh. cat., New York: The Museum of Modern Art.
• Porter, Venetia, Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East, Exh. cat., London: The British Museum.
• Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection, Exh. cat., New York: The Museum of Modern Art.
• Porter, Venetia, Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East, Exh. cat., London: The British Museum.
2005
• Ross, Lauren, "Dating Data," Art on Paper, May/June.
• Levin, Kim, "Voice Choices: 'Paper,' Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery," The Village Voice, February 16-22.
2003
• McQuaid, Cate, "For Wordsmiths, Beauty of Micrography is in the Details," The Boston Globe, September 5.
• Levine, Cary, "Jacob El Hanani at Nicole Klagsbrun", Art in America, Janurary.
2002
• Binstock, Jeffrey, "Fantasy Underfoor" Artnet.com, December 24.
• O'Sullivan, Michael, "The Corcoran Biennial: Dramatic License" The Washington Post, December 27.
• Seidel, Miriam, "From Quiet Detail, a Hypnotic Effect", The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 20.
• Wei, Lilly, "New York Reviews," ArtNews, November.
• Halkin, Talya, Arts & Letters—Gallery Going, The New York Sun, September 26.
2001
• Kalm, James, "Repetition in Discourse, NYArts, November.
• Cheng, Scarlet, "Look Ma, No Computers", The Los Angeles Times, August 26.
• Sparks, Amy Bracken, "Hyper Text," Cleveland Free Times, May 30 – June 5.
2001
• Tranberg, Dan, "Pieces and pictures are worth a thousand words", The Plain Dealer, May 10.
• Tranberg, Dan, "Drawing on Language," Dialogue, July/August.
• York, Hildreth, "Obsessive Surfaces", Surface Design Journal, Spring.
• MacAdam, Barbara, "The Mircrowave", Art News, April.
• Zimmer, William, "The content isn't new, but the processes are", The New York Times, Westchester edition, Feb. 2.
2000
• Danto, Arthur, "Best of 2000", Artforum, December.
• Dorfman, John, "For an Obsessive Micrographer, the divine lurks in the details", The Forward, May 19.
1999
• McQuaid, Cate, "Innovative lines, flowing glass forms," The Boston Globe, March 11.
• Nahas, Dominique, "Microwave," Review Magazine, October 15, p. 18.
• Oliman, Leah, "Great Drawing Show, Kohn Turner Gallery," The Los Angeles Times, October 1.
• Johnson, Ken, "Drawings: Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery," The New York Times, August 13.
• Johnson, Ken, "Scripta Manent, Esso Gallery," The New York Times.
• Sozanski, Edward, "Drawing Rules", Philadelphia Inquirer, April 9.
• Baker, Kenneth, "Jacob El Hanani, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco," ArtNews, December, p. 156.
• Murdock, Robert M., "Growing Obsession," Review Magazine, February, p. 19.
1997
• Bonetti, David, "Obsession + Devotion," San Francisco Examiner, Oct.24, p.B9.
1996
• Koplos, Jane, "Labor of Love at the Museum," Art in America, October, p. 120.
• Kandel, Susan, "The Rational World," The Los Angeles Times, Jan. 25, p. F7.
1995
• Rubenstein, Raphael, "Jacob El Hanani at Yoshii," Art in America, July.
1994
• Chadwick, Susan, "Contemporary Collection Sheds New Light," The Houston Post, March 1.
1993
• Stapen Nancy, "Worcester Show Draws Full Spectrum," The Boston Globe, December 27, p. 31.
• Tousey, Nancy, "Drawing as an Art Form Impresses," Calgary Herald, January .
1992
• Faust, Gretchen, "New York in Review," Arts, February, p. 86.
• Raynor, Vivian, "Memorable Images in an Anthology of Drawings," The New York Times, July 5, p.12
• Russell, John, "The Secret Life of Art is Led in Drawings," The New York Times, June C29.
• Stapen, Nancy, "Making the Most of Minimalism," The Boston Globe, June 25.
1991
• Sherman, Mary, "Rose Exhibit Brings Drawings Back into Light," The Boston Globe, March 22, p. 18.
• Stapen, Nancy, "Drawings at Brandeis Ask Profound Questions," The Boston Globe, March 22.
1987
• Abramowicz, Leon, "Jacob El Hanani," L'Arche, (France), June 1, P. 86.
1984
• Donahoe, Victoria, "Is Abstract Painting Regarding Its Popularity," Philadelphia Inquirer, September 14, p. 34.
1981
• Ronnen, Meir, "Letter-Perfect," The Jerusalem Post, March 13, p. 11.
1977
• Tannenbaum, Judith, "Jacob El Hanani," Arts, May, p. 2.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
• The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
• The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• The Jewish Museum, New York
• The Brooklyn Museum, New York
• Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
• The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
• Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada
• The Menil Foundation, Houston
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• The Philadelphia Museum, Philadelphia
• The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC
• The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
• Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
• The Tel-Aviv Museum, Israel
• The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
• Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas, Venezuela
• Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
• Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN
• Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
• The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
• The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge MA
• Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina – Greensboro, NC
• Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York – Purchase, NY
• The British Museum, Great Britain
• The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
