NAFTALI (ANATOLE) RAKUZIN
1948 - was born in Moscow, URSS. His father is a book-illustrator
In 1962-1964 - studied with the painter Moses Chasanov
In 1965 - 1970 - studied at the Moscow Polygraphic Institute and then worked in Moscow as an illustrator and designer
In 1974 - left the URSS and setteld in Jerusalem, Israel
In 1980 - obtained the Feininger Award for a Young Artist
In 1982 - arrived in Paris, and since then lives and works there
SELECTED ONE-MAN EXHIBITIONS
2009 - «Cartes Postales», Painting, pop/off/at gallery, Moscow, Russia
2009 - «Cartes Postales», Graphic, public corporation Swedbank, Moscow, Russia
2009 - Sims Reed Gallery, London, Great Britain
2008 - «The Book of Art», Gallery «Bineth», Tel Aviv, Israel
2007 - «The Nature of Still Life», Jane Roberts Fine Arts Galerie d’Art, Paris, France
2007 - The Library of the artist, pop/off/art gallery, Moscow, Russia
2006 - Artspace Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
2005 - L’Association Philomuses, Paris, France
2004 - Galerie Nabokov, Paris, France
2003 - Librairie-Galerie «Art et Litterature», Paris, France
2002 - Librairie Lardanchet, Paris, France
L’Association Philomuses, Paris, France
Galerie-Librairie Graphes, Paris, France
2000 - Artspace Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
Centre d’Art et de Culture de la rue Broca. Espace Rachi, Paris, France
«Office in Tel Aviv», Tel Aviv, Israel
1999 - Haifa Museum, Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
1997 - Dianne Beal Contemporary Art, Washington D.C., USA
1996 - «The Moscow Palette» Gallery. Art-Manege 96, Moscow, Russia
1993 - «Grewal-Marine S» Gallery, Paris, France
1992 - Paesaggio Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
1988 - Schröder-Ebbers Gallery, Bersenbrück, Germany
1984 - Fred Lanzenberg Gallery, Bruxelles, Belgium
James Mayor Gallery, Paris, France
1982 - Sha’ar Zion Library, Beit-Ariela, Tel Aviv, Israel
1979 - «Parkway Focus» Gallery, London, Great Britain
1978 - Rudolf Jüdes Gallery, Burgdorf / Hannover, Germany
1977 - «L’Angle aigu» Gallery, Bruxelles, Belgium
1976 - Avior Gallery, Tel Aviv , Israel
1975 - Artists’House, Jerusalem , Israel
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 - Russian papers: Russian works on paper. Bleusquare Gallery, Paris
2008 - The Power of Water, Russian Museum, St.Petersburg
2007 - New Angelarium, The Moscow Museum of Modern Art
2007 - CIGE, China International Gallery Exposition (4th Edition), Beijing. Bineth Gallery, Peking, China
19 th Annual Works on Paper at the 7 th Regiment Armory, New York, USA
Jane Roberts Fine Arts, New York, USA
2006 - «My Parisian All-Stars», Bineth Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2005 - «The Beauty in the Book», The Israel Museum, Youth Wing. Jerusalem, Israel
2003 - « Paris Lives, Russian Stories: Works on Paper», The Embassy of France, Washington D.C., USA
6-éme Triennale Mondiale d’Estampes Petit Format, Chamalières, France
2000 - «Different reading». Art Gallery of Kiryat Tivon, Israel
1996 - Here and There; Then and Now: Contemporary Artists from the Former Soviet
Union . National Jewish Museum, Washington D.C., USA
1995 - Twenty Years of the Jerusalem Print Workshop. The Israel Museum. Jerusalem, Israel
1994 - 28-éme Prix International d’Art Contemporain, Monte-Carlo, Monaco
Vallois Gallery, Paris, France
1993 - «Le Triomphe du trompe-l’œil», Grande Palais, Paris, France
1991 - 25-éme Prix International d’Art Contemporain, Monte-Carlo, Monaco
Mann Gallery, Paris, France
1990 - Works on paper. Galerie Vieille du Temple, Paris, France
«Chagall to Kitaj. Jewish Experience in 20-th Century Art»
Barbican Art Gallery, London, Great Britain
1988 - Künstler sehen das Weserbergland, Museum im Schloss, Bad Pyrmont, Germany
5 russes à Toulouse, Centre Culturelle de l’Aerospatiale, Toulouse, France
1985 - London Art Fair (James Mayor Gallery), London, Great Britain
1984 - Exhibition on Still-life, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
1983 - Gravures contemporaines, James Mayor Gallery, Paris, France
1982 - Sarah Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem , Israel
1979 - 20 Jahre Unabhänginge Kunst aus der Sowjetunion, Museum Bochum, Germany
Landscape in Israel Art, Tel Aviv , Israel
Biennale for Young Artists, Haifa Museum of Modern Art, Haifa , Israel
30. Frankfurter Buchmesse, Frankfurt
(Steintor Verlag Rudolf Jüdes Burgdorf / Hannovre), Germany
1977 - « Wash Art 77», Washington D.C., USA
1975 - Immigrant Artists, Jerusalem, Israel
Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem , Israel
1971 - Book Graphics, Moscow, Russia
1969 - Book Graphics, Moscow, Russia
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Bibliothèque Royale Albert I, Bruxelles, Belgium
New York Public Library, New York, USA
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Museum of Modern Art, Haifa, Israel
Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Chicago State University, Chicago, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Kunstverein für Rheinland und Westphalen, Düsseldorf, Germany