1918 Born in Zhitomir, Ukraine
1920 Immigrated to Israel
1935 Studied with the painter Chaim Gliksberg, Israel
1946-1947 Studied at the studios of Stematsky and Streichman, Israel
1950-1961 Lived and worked in Paris, France
1961-1977 Lived and worked alternately in Israel and abroad
1977-1986 Lived and worked in Tel Aviv, Israel
1986-2005 Lived and worked in Kidron, Israel
2005 Died in Kidron
One Man Exhibitions
1954 Chemerinsky Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1957 Galerie Espace, Haarlem, Holland
Galerie Colette Allendy, Paris, France
1961 “Lea Nikel: Paintings”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Dizengoff House, Israel
1965 “Lea Nikel”, Chemerinsky Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1966 “Lea Nikel - Recent Paintings”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Dizengoff House,
Israel
1967 Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1970 Chemerinsky Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1972 “Selected Works of Lea Nikel”, Gordon Gallery II, Tel Aviv, Israel
1973 “Lea Nikel: Paintings 1963-1973”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena
Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv, Israel
1975 “Watercolors, Collages & Mixed Media”, America-Israel Cultural Center,
New York, NY, U.S.A.
1978 Sara Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem
1979 Sara Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem
1980 “Lea Nikel: Works 1974-1976”, Sara Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem
1983 Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1984 Sara Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem
1985 “Lea Nikel”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1986 “Lea Nikel: Work in Small Dimensions”, Meimad Katan Gallery, Tel Aviv,
Israel
1987 “Lea Nikel: Works on Paper”, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel
Mokotoff Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.
1988 Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1988 “Lea Nikel”, The Gallery at Cabri, Kibbutz Cabri, Israel
1989 Mokotoff Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.
1990 “Nikel”, Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Barbican Center, London, England
1992 “Lea Nikel: Book”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel
Aviv, Israel
“Nikel - Monoprints”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1995 “Lea Nikel - A Retrospective”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2001 “Lea Nikel – Works on Paper 1950-2000”, The Open Museum at Omer
Industrial Park, Omer, Israel
2002 “Lea Nikel – New Works 1998-2002”, Zommer Contemporary Art Gallery,
Tel Aviv, Israel
2004 “Lea Nikel – Paris 1950-1961”, Mane Katz Museum, Haifa, Israel
2005 “Lea Nikel – Watercolor on Paper”, ‘Hacheder’, Tel Aviv, Israel
Selected Group Exhibitions
1951 “Second Salon of Young Painters”, Galerie Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
“May Salon”, Paris, France
1953 “Israeli Painters in Paris”, Galerie Zak, Paris, France
1955 “Discovering”, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, France
1956 “Facets of Contemporary Art from Three Dutch Collections”, Vishal,
Haarlem, Holland
1957 “Three Israeli Painters from the School of Paris”, Galleria Blu, Milan, Italy
“Contemporary Jewish Artists from France”, Ben Uri Art Gallery, London,
England
1959 “Beyond the Informal”, Galerie Colette Allendy, Paris, France
1960 Galerie Jean Camion, Paris, France
“Contemporary Israeli Art”, National Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France
1961 “Contemporary Art in Israel”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein
Pavilion, Tel Aviv, Israel
1964 “Aroch, Nikel, Tumarkin”, the 32nd Biennale, Venice, Italy
“International Grand Prix for Contemporary Art of the Principality of
Monaco”, Palais de Congres, Monte Carlo
1964-1966 “Art Israel: 26 Painters and Sculptors”, Museum of Modern Art, New York,
NY, U.S.A.
1965 “Trends in Israeli Art”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Sheskin Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.
1966-1967 “Israeli Painters”, traveling exhibition no. 5 organized by the Ministry of
Education and Culture, the Public Council for Culture and Art, and the
American-Israeli Cultural Foundation
1967 “28 Twentieth-Century Painters and Sculptors”, organized by the United
Jewish Federation, the Frick Fine Arts Building, University of Pittsburgh,
Penn., U.S.A.
Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1968 “The Jerusalem Exhibition 1968”, David`s Citadel, Jerusalem
1969 “Contemporary Painting from Israel”, Bucharest, Rumania
1970 “Israeli Art from the Museum Collection”, Haifa Museum of Modern Art,
Israel
1971 “Twenty Israeli Artists”, Handwerkskammer, Cologne and the City Museum,
Wiesbaden, Germany
“Israeli Art”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
1973 “Self Portrait in Israeli Art”, Haifa Museum of Modern Art, Haifa, Israel
1977 “Artists`77”, Union Carbide Building, New York, NY, U.S.A.
1978 “Graphic Works by 30 Artists”, University Gallery, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Sara Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem
1979 “The Kadishman Connection”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
“Artists` Choice”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
“Watercolors: Nikel, Stematsky, Streichman, Rauchwerger”, Sara Levi
Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1980 Sara Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem
1981 “Trends in Israeli Art 1970-1980”, The International Art Fair, Basel,
Switzerland
“Israeli Artists – 1920-1980”, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, U.S.A.
1982 “Israeli Prints from the Burston Graphic Center”, The Israel Museum,
Jerusalem
Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1983 “Contemporary Israeli Prints”, National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago de
Chile
“The 7th International Art Biennial”, Valparaiso, Chile
“Red”, Ariela House, Tel Aviv, Israel
1984 “A Pear and an Apple: Still-Life Exhibition”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
1984-1985 “Two Years, 1983-1984, Israeli Art, Qualities Accumulated”, Tel Aviv
Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv, Israel
1985 “Milestones in Israel Art”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
“A Tribute to Avigdor Stematsky”, Aspaklaria Gallery, Jerusalem
“100 Works from the Museum Collection”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
“Collection of Contemporary Israeli Art”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena
Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv, Israel
1986 “Artists at Mishkenot Sha`ananim, Jerusalem, 1984-85”,Givon Gallery, Tel
Aviv, Israel
“ARTIsrael: the 1980’s”, Mokotoff Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.
“Art in Israel 1906-1986”, Madrid and Barcelona, Spain
1987 “Israel Painting in Big Format”, Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel
1988 “Artist at the Gallery in Cabri”, Kibbutz Cabri, Israel
1st International Triennial of Small-Format Prints, Municipality of Chamelier,
Auvergne, France
1989 The Gallery in Cabri, Kibbutz Cabri, Israel
1990 “Drawing and Beyond”, Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
“Dialogue with Stematsky”, Artists` Studios, Tel Aviv, Israel
1991-1993 “The Secret of Color Reduction”, traveling exhibition organized by the
Ministry of Education and Culture, The America-Israel Cultural Foundation
and Omanut La`am
1992 Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
“A Tribute to Ayala - Israeli Art from the Ayala Zacks-Abramov Collections”,
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
“Print+”, Ashdod Museum, Ashdod, Israel
1993 “Mutual Feedback”, Florence Miller Art Center, Print Workshop, Jerusalem
1994 “The Printers` Imprint - Twenty Years of the Jerusalem Print Workshop”,
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
“Art Miami ‘93”, Barbara Scott Gallery, Miami, Florida, U.S.A.
1994-1995 “The Johannesburg Biennale - Africus `95”, the 1st Biennale of South
Africa, Johannesburg
2002 “Focus on Painting”, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
Prizes
1953 First Prize at the “Israeli Painters in Paris” exhibition, Galerie Zak, Paris,
France
1968 The National Council of Culture and Art Prize, awarded by the Ministry of
Education and Culture, Jerusalem
1966 Sandberg Prize, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1982 Dizengoff Prize, Tel Aviv Municipality, Israel
1985 Medal for activity at the UNESCO Experimental Workshop on the Place of
Contemporary Art and the Role of the Artist in the Teaching of Visual Arts
at Schools, Nice, France
1987 Gamzu Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Collections
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Museum of Modern Art, Haifa, Israel