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.
Bat Yam Art Institute

1976 Lecturer, Avni Institute        
Lecturer, Talma Yellin High School for the Arts, Tel Aviv

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