Drora Dominey

Born in Kibbutz Merhavia, Israel 1950
Lives and works in Tel Aviv

Education

1972-1973 Art studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA
1975-1979 BFA, Cheltenham College of Art, England
1979-1980 MFA, St. Martin’s School of Art, London

Teaching

1981-2021 Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem

Awards & Grants

1987, Creation Prize, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
1989, Discount Bank Prize for an Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1991, Minister of Education Prize for the Visual Arts
1989, Arthur Goldreich Trust, Bezalel / Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, Tel Aviv
1999, Prize for the Encouragement of Creative Art, Ministry of Education
2001, Meir Dizengoff Prize for Visual Arts, Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality
2007, Minister of Science, Culture and Sport Prize
2018, Lifetime Achievement Award in the Visual Arts, Ministry of Culture
2020, Rappaport Prize for an Established Israeli Artist

Collections

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel

 

Solo Exhibitions

1982, Drora Dominey Gerstenfeld: Sculpture, Jerusalem Theater Gallery
1984, Sarah Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem
1984, The Art Workshop Gallery, Yavne
1987, Works on Paper, Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv
1988, Drora Dominey, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
1991, Kibbutz Be’eri Gallery
1993, Sculptures 1990-1993, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1993, Interior in the Sculpture Field, University of Haifa Art Gallery
1995 , A Lesson in Work Processes, Art Institute Gallery, Oranim
1997, MiTalaPoPita, Artists’ Studios Gallery, Tel Aviv
2000, Everywhere, Artists’ Studios Gallery, Tel Aviv
2000, Black Moon, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2005, Black Money, Kav 16 Gallery, Tel Aviv
2005, Landscape with a Monument, Uri and Rami Nehushtan Museum, Ashdot Ya’akov Meuhad
2008, Cutout Birds, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
2010, Heaven and Earth, Ramat Eliyahu Art Workshop
2011, Experiment, Artists’ Studios Gallery, Tel Aviv
2011, Group Game , Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem
2011, Reconstructions, Oranim Academic College Gallery
2014, D. Digging, Bezalel Art Department Gallery, Jerusalem
2016, The Wind in the Scaffolding, Oranim Academic College Gallery
2016, P. N. Possibly Next, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv
2021, Donkey Burial, Almacen Gallery, Tel Aviv
2022, Provisions for a Long Journey, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv

Group Exhibitions

1982
Hall 6, Artists’ House, Jerusalem
1983
Ahad Ha’am 90 Gallery, Tel Aviv
One Year to the Gallery, Ahad Ha’am 90 Gallery, Tel Aviv
Inviting Artist , Radius Gallery, Tel Aviv
1984
Naomi Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv
Two Years to the Gallery, Ahad Ha’am 90 Gallery, Tel Aviv
Eighty Years of Sculpture in Israel, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Beit Yad Labanim, Holon
Painting, Sculpture and Photography, Meimad Katan Gallery, Tel Aviv
1985
Sculpture, Ahad Ha’am 90 Gallery, Tel Aviv
New Israeli Art, Dizengoff Center, Tel Aviv
Two Years, Israeli Art, Cumulative Qualities, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
June 85, Hakibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv
1986
Three Sculptures, Three Sculptures: Dominey, Hefetz, Tumarkin, Mabat Gallery, Tel Aviv
Israeli Summer, Selection from the Collection and New Acquisitions, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Small Sculpture, Kalisher 5 Gallery, Tel Aviv
The Disciplined Spirit, Exit Art, New York
Israeli Art, Marie Evangelista Gallery, New York
1987
Inviting Artist, Yehiel Shemi Invites 7 Sculptors, Hakibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv
Fresh Paint: The Younger Generation in Israeli Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Sculpture and Two Dimensions , The Art Workshop Gallery, Yavne
The City 1987, Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv
1988
Forty From Israel, Brooklyn Museum, New York
Sculpture: Approaches and Materials, Cultural Center, Rehovot
Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
1989
Changing Images: Design, Sculpture, Kalisher 5 Gallery, Tel Aviv
1990
Alima Chooses Artists, Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv
The Feminine Presence: Israeli Women Artists in the Seventies and Eighties, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Sculpture Biennale, Ein Hod
1991
Works on Paper, Artists’ Studios Gallery, Tel Aviv
Combined Painting, Collage, Object, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
Makom 1991, Exhibition of Israeli Sculpture, Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan
Domestic Environment, Artists House, Tel Aviv
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Israeli Art Now: An Extensive Presentation, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1992
Israeli Art: Selected Works from the Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Mabat and Hebet (Look and Aspect): Israeli Art, Leipzig, Berlin, Bonn
Beyond the Collection, Ayala Zacks House, Tel Aviv
1993
Regions of Desires (Mechozot Chefetz), Bat Yam Museum
Drora Dominey: Interior in the Sculpture Field, University of Haifa Art Gallery
1994
The First Five Years, Artists’ Studios Gallery, Tel Aviv
In the Footsteps of the Bauhaus, Artists’ Studios Gallery, Tel Aviv
Sculpture, The Third Eye Gallery, Kibbutz Hasolelim
Bauhaus in Tel Aviv, Haaretz Building, Tel Aviv
Artist, Teacher, Artist, Avni Institute, Tel Aviv
Sculpture Biennale, Ein Hod
Tiger, Tiger, Mary Fauzi Gallery, Tel Aviv
Mary Fauzi Gallery, Tel Aviv (Exhibition without title)
Braid and Tower Installation, Tel Hai 94
Eyebrow Horizon Installation, Facing the Mountain Exhibition, Arts Center, Givat Haviva
Houseworks, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
The Art Gallery, University of Haifa
1995
The Art Workshop Gallery, Yavne
Arad Museum
Chips of Vision, Kibbutz Nachshon Gallery
Cypress Fence, The Prisman Spring, Mr. Sweetie, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1996
Art and Architecture, Artists House, Tel Aviv
Ketav: Flesh and Word in Israeli Art, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, USA
A Decade to the Minister of Education Prize for Visual Arts, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1997
Hair, Artists’ House, Jerusalem
Plastic Chair, Hamumche Gallery, Tel Aviv
1998
Shabbat on the Kibbutz, Uri and Rami Nehushtan Museum, Ashdot Ya’akov Meuhad
Women Artists in Israeli Art: The 80s and 90s, Haifa Museum of Art
Sculptures in the Garden, Artists’ Studios, Tel Aviv
Home: From the Dream of the National Home to the Dream House 1948-1998, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1999
Good Kids, Bad Kids, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
The Image of the Home in Israeli Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Medals, Mountains, Stars Installation, Prize for the Encouragement of Creative Art Winners Exhibition, Artists’ House, Tel Aviv
2001
Sheikh Abreik: An Artistic Look at the Alexander Zaid Myth and the Era, Beit Yad Labanim, Tivon
Drawings, Artists Studios Gallery, Tel Aviv
Yeladudes, Mishkan Museum of Art, Holon
2002
Where are the Children?, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
Return to Zion: Beyond the Principle of Place, Zman La’Omanut Gallery, Tel Aviv
2003
Affirmative Action, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2004
The Image in the Material: Wood Sculpture in Israel, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Sport and Art”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
The 80s in Israeli Art, Oranim Academic College Gallery
Kiruyal, Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv
Omanut Ha’aretz 3, Reading A, Tel Aviv
2005
Hunger, Kalisher College Gallery, Tel Aviv
A Hundred Years of Israeli Art, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Communal Sleeping, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion
Monuments in the Landscape, Uri and Rami Nehushtan Museum, Ashdot Ya’akov Meuhad
With Perfect Faith, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2006
Black Coffee, Beit HaGefen, Haifa
Mini Israel, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Mustache, Sapir College Gallery, Sderot
Dynasty, Sapir College Gallery, Sderot
Gutman at Home, Nahum Gutman Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
The Murder of Yitzhak, Uri and Rami Nehushtan Museum, Ashdot Ya’akov Meuhad
2007
Partnership, Ramla City Gallery
Teachers, Ramla City Gallery
Visual Israeliness, Open University Campus, Ra’anana
Relay Race, Haifa Museum of Art
2008
The Winners 2007 (Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport Prizes for Art and Design), Haifa Museum of Art
Check-Post: Art in Israel in the 1980s, Haifa Museum of Art
Bushes, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
2009
Four Openings in Israeli Art, Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv
A Whiter Shade of Pale, Artists’ Studios Gallery, Tel Aviv
Zulu: Journey and Adventure in Israeli Art, Nahum Gutman Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
Salame / Herzl: Views from South Tel Aviv, Artists’ Studios Gallery, Tel Aviv
2010
Painting Camp 2010, Ramla Gallery, Ofakim, Oranim College
2011
Ahad Ha’am 90 Ramla 2011, Ramla Station for Contemporary Art
2012
The New Nimrods, Artists House, Jerusalem
Bristols, MoBY: Museums of Bat Yam
2013
Blood of the Maccabees: Memory and Bereavement in Israeli Art, Negev Museum of Art, Beer Sheva
Objects, Holon Children’s Museum
2014
Dust Diary, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
The Dinner Party, Haifa Museum of Art
2015
Heads and Knives, The Art Gallery, Ramla
Israel/One, Imago Mundi – Benetton Collection, Venice
Mini Golf: Entry Permit, MoBY: Museums of Bat Yam
2016
B.B, Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem
2017
Manifest Destiny, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv
40 Years to the Kabri Gallery, Kibbutz Kabri
The Women Workers Movement, Uri and Rami Nehushtan Museum, Ashdot Ya’akov Meuhad
Mother’s Home , Afula Art Gallery
Bread and Roses, Artists’ Studios, Tel Aviv
Kibbutz 1912-2017, Guangzhou, China
Same Same But Different, Schocken Collection, Minus1 Gallery, Tel Aviv
2018
One More Moment, “Broken” (with Avi Sabah), Uri and Rami Nehushtan Museum, Ashdot Ya’akov Meuhad
Abundance, “Bezeq Building”, MoBY: Museums of Bat Yam (Joint work with Irit Hemmo)
Recovery Plan / Join or Die: Wall and Tower, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2019
Ministry of Culture and Sport Prize Winners Exhibition, Lifetime Achievement Awar”, Ashdod Art Museum
Building Materials (Joint work with Irit Hemmo), Basis Art School Gallery, Herzliya
2022
All Theory is Gray, but the Tree of Life Springs Ever Green, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

 

Press & Publication

2002 Drora Dominey and France Lebee-Nadav, Everywhere: Israeli Landscape with a Monument, Hargol Publishing
2011 Drora Dominey, Volleyball, Curator: Masha Zusman, Jerusalem, Barbur Gallery
2020 Drora Dominey, Provisions For A Long Journey, Tel Aviv Museum of Art