Avishai Platek
Exhibition:
Dec
2024
Main gallery
Curator: Hadassa Cohen
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Avishai Platek (b.1975), born in Kibbutz Nachshonim, lives and works in Kibbutz Kabri and Tel Aviv. He is a graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (2003), Central Saint Martins, London, and the Beit Berl College post-graduate program (2014). He teaches at Shenkar College and is the proprietor of a private art school, while conducting workshops in Israel and abroad.
Platek has exhibited extensively, with solo shows at Hanina Gallery, Tel Aviv (2019); Jaffa 97 Gallery, Jerusalem (2019); the Be'eri Gallery, Kibbutz Be'eri (2018); the Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv (2018); Dana Gallery, Yad Mordechai (2017), and others. He has participated in group exhibitions at the Arad Contemporary Art Center, the Jerusalem Biennale for Drawing, the Ashdod Art Museum, Ramat Hasharon Contemporary Art Gallery, Shlush Gallery, the Tel Aviv University Gallery, and more. His awards include the National Council for the Arts Grant (2024); Rabinovich Foundation Grant (2022); Ministry of Culture and Sport Independent Artists’ Fund (2021); Art Lane fund (2020); the Hermann Struck Print Prize (2003); America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship (2004), among others.
אבישי פלטק הציג תערוכות יחיד רבות בישראל, זוכה מועצת הפיס לתרבות (2024); מענק קרן רבינוביץ' (2022); מענק הקרן ליוצרים עצמאיים, משרד התרבות והספורט (2021); מענק ׳בשביל האמנות׳ (2020); פרס הרמן שטרוק להדפס (2003); מלגת קרן התרבות אמריקה-ישראל (2004) ופרסים נוספים.