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Avinoam Kosowsky Born 1949, Tel Aviv, Israel Studied at Renanim High School, Tel Aviv; Bezalel, Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem; and Avni Institute, Tel Aviv. Set designer for television and films
2002-present Lecturer, Drawing and Painting, College of Visual Art, Beer Sheva 1996- present Drawing and painting lecturer, Vital School of Art and Design, Tel Aviv 1993- present Drawing Studies’ Coordinator, Avni Institute, Tel Aviv Senior Lecturer, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem 1984 Residency at the Cité des Arts, Paris, with support from the Ministry of Education. One-person exhibitions in Paris and Bordeaux 1983 Lecturer, Midrasha College of Art, Beit Berl, Ramat Hasharon 1978 Lecturer, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. 1976 Lecturer, Avni Institute
One-person exhibitions: 2008 - Solo exhibition, Bernard Gallery Tel-Aviv 2006 Museum of Erotic Art, Paris 1992, 1989 Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv One-person and group exhibitions in Israel and abroad, including the following: “Harold Rubin and Avinoam Kosowsky’s 21 meters,” Tel Aviv “Three painters, three easels, joint space,” Tel Aviv “Painters painting painters,” Tel Aviv “Consensus in the heat,” Haifa “Variations on a theme,” Artists’ House, Tel Aviv “Painting/Drawing,” Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv “Black & White,” Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv “Women as seen by men,” Pyramid Gallery, Haifa “Variations,” Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan “Loving pornography,” Artists’ House, Tel Aviv Member, Israel Association of Painters and Sculptors Kosowsky has participated in dozens of group exhibitions in Israel and abroad, including in China, Argentina, USA, Switzerland and France. K’s exhibits garnered enthusiastic praise from critics in the local and international press. Publications: “Not every painter is an artist: Approaches, dangers and solutions: Painting instruction.” Published in Hebrew in Studioand has become an integral part of the syllabus for Dr. Aliza Cohen-Mushlin’s Master’s and Doctoral Seminar in Methodology and Literature at Tel Aviv University. “Art has no idea of its existence,” published in the forum “Pulmus b’omanuyot” [Debate in the arts] 99 Etchings (book in press), etchings accompanied by a comprehensive article by Dr. Miriam Or, Tel Aviv University. “Kosowsky’s unique teaching methods,” by Dr. Henry Unger, Tel Aviv University Faculty of the Arts. For Kosovskey's Biography in Hebrew Klick Here
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