Jacob El Hanani
b. 1947



1947
Born in Casablanca, Morocco
EDUCATION
1969 – 70
Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris
1965 –69
Avni School of Fine Arts, Tel Aviv, Israel
SELECTED AWARDS
2003
The American Academy of Arts and Letters, Purchase award
1999
Tiffany Award
1969
American Israel Cultural Foundation Award
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
“Linear Landscape: Ink drawings” Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX
2008
Jacob El Hanani Recent Work, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA
2005
Drawing 1978-2005, Mills College, Oakland, CA
Jacob El Hanani Ink, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA
2003
OSP Gallery, Boston, MA
Jacob El Hanani Recent Drawings, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA
2002
Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000
Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
1999
Miller/Block Gallery, Boston, MA
Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998
Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995
Miller/Block Gallery, Boston, MA
Yoshii Gallery, New York, NY (Catalog)
1993
Gallery Renee Ziegler, Zurich, Switzerland
1988
Gallery Gilbert Brownstone, Paris, France
1978
Gallery Denise Rene, Paris, France
1977
Gallery Denise Rene, Paris, France
1975
Gallery Denise Rene, Paris, France
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Grey Full, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York City, NY
2011
Works on Paper, Danese, New York, New York
2010
Ink, Inc., Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX
On the Mark, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA
2009
20 Years, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
50 very small works, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
About Face, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York City, NY
Summer Shortcuts: A Drawing Forecast, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
2008
Delineation, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX
Unplugged, one, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
Drawn to Detail - DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Horror Vacui, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY
2007
microwave, five, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
pattern vs. decoration, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA and New York, NY
Drawn to the Edge, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY
INK!, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
Text Messages, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY
Salon de coiffure, La Nouvelle Athènes, Paris, France
2006
Moment by Moment: Meditations of the Hand, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
On Line: Contemporary Drawing, Sonoma University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA
Transforming Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings, Part Two, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (Catalog)
Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (Catalog)
R³: Reading ‘Ritin ‘Rithmetic, 30 Years Later, Castle Gallery, Inverness, Scotland
The Broida Collection, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Word into Art – Artists of the Modern Middle East, The British Museum, London, England
Drawings: Bruce Conner, Jacob El Hanani, Mark Lombardi, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA (Nov. 4 – Dec. 16)
Delineation, Hosfelt Gallery, New York, NY
Gridlock, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
In Black and White, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
2005
SFIAE7, San Francisco, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
Decelerate - Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO (Catalog)
Dating Data - Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York City, NY
PAPER - Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York City, NY
Jacob El Hanani & Renato Ortega, OSP Gallery, Boston, MA
Building and Breaking the Grid, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Drawing, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Troy Story, Todd Hosfelt, San Francisco, CA
Pencil Me In, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Trace, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Cult Following, Gallery Schlesinger, New York, NY
Intense Focus, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Intensive Care, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Brazil
On Paper, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
SFIAE6, San Francisco, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
2003
Vision and Revision: Art on Paper since 1960, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Recent Acquisitions: Works on Paper, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Word Works, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY
Aligned, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY
Fine Lines: Drawings from the Collection of Wynn Kramarsky, Santa
Barbara, CA
Masterworks on Paper from the Edward R. Broida Collection, Museum
of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
Paper, Hostelf Gallery, San Francisco, CA
First Person, Gallery Schlesinger, New York, NY
Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
2002
47th Bienniale Exhibition: Fantasy Under Foot; Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, DC (Catalog)
The Microwave, Crittinerose/Jose Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
Blobs, Dots, Wiggles, Webs & Crustillations, Work Space, New York, NY
In the Details, Gallery Schlesinger, New York, NY
Snapshots, Alrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Litchfield, CT
Acquiring Taste, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Oeuvres Sur Papier, Galerie Denise Rene, Paris, France
Photographs from 1969 – 2002, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York,
NY
Group Exhibition, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
2001
Jacob El Hanani & Orit Raff, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibition, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
Repetition in Discourse, The Painting Center, New York, NY
Finely Drawn: A Recent Gift of Contemporary Drawings, Weatherspoon
Art Gallery, Greensboro NC
By Hand: Pattern, Precision & Repetition in Contemporary Drawing,
California State University, Long Beach, CA
Compelled, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
Drawings on Language, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH (Catalog)
Re: Drawing, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
2000
Morocco: Jews and Art in a Muslim Land, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Collecting Drawings, Not Artists: Gifts from the Collection of Sarah-Ann and Werner H. Kramarsky, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Joe Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Drawing on Tradition, Fuller Museum of Art Brockton, MA
Horror Vacuui, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Fixations: The Obsessional in Contemporary Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
L'Elemento Verbale Nell'arte Contemporanea, Galleria Martano, Turin and Galleria Milano, Milan, Italy. In collaboration with Esso Gallery, NY
More, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
1999
Drawings, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, NY
Drawing Rules, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia (catalogue)
Drawing: An Essay, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Great Drawing Show 1550–1999, Kohn Turner Gallery, LA, CA
New Space, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
New Space, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Petits Formats, Yoshii Gallery, New York, NY
Sheer Abstraction, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
Scripta Manent, Esso Gallery, New York, NY
Ainsi de Suite, Contemporary Art Center, Sete, France
Die Kunst der Linie, Landesgalerie, Oberosterreich, Linz, Austria
1998
The Seventies, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv
Edward R. Broida Collection, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando
Le Dessin en Procès, Château d'eau, Bourges, France (Catalog)
Artists Using Writing, Wadsworth Antheneum, Hartford
Growing Obsession, Dorsky Gallery, New York
1997
Jacob El Hanani and Roland Flexner: Ink on Paper, Serge Ziegler Gallery, Zurich
Obsession Plus Devotion, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
Word to Word, Linda Kirkland Gallery, New York
Tracery, Betsy Senior Gallery, New York
Art Writing, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Paper Support: Recent Acquisitions, Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven
Individuals on Paper, Deven Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
1996
The Rational World, Koln Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
Tangles, Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
A Labor of Love, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Diary of a Human Hand, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, NY
96 Works on Paper, The Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
1995
Gridluck, Marge Coldwater, Inc., New York, NY
Keeping in Touch, Daphan Naor Gallery, Jerusalem
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
1994
Rolywholyover, A Circus, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Conclusions Drawn, Miller/Block Gallery, Boston, MA
Little Things, Art in General, New York, NY
Le Temps d’un dessin, Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Lorient, France
From the Sublime to the Meticulous, Davis-McClaine Gallery, Houston, TX
1993
Works on Paper, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY
Five Artists from Israel, John Stoller Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Paintings, Gallery Schlesinger, New York, NY
Jacob el Hanani & Moshe Kupferman: Drawings, Bronfman Center for the Arts, Montreal, Canada (Brochure)
1992
Drawn in the Nineties, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY (Catalog)
S.E.Q.E.N.C.E., Ellen Miller/Kate Bloack Fine Art, Boston, MA (Catalog)
1991
Existence, Passage and the Dream, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (Catalog)
Marking/Time, The Drawing Center, New York, NY (Brochure)
1989
Small Scale Abstraction, Art in General, New York
1987
Trends in Geometric Abstract Art, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv (Catalog)
1986
The Disciplined Spirit, Exit Art, New York (Catalog)
1985
Works on Paper, Gabrielle Bryers Gallery, New York, NY
1984
Selections from the McCrory, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (Catalog)
1983
New Acquisitions, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1982
Printing and Writing, The Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York
1981
Hebrew Micrography: One Thousand Years of Art in Script, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1979
Oeuvres Contemporaines des Collections Nationales, Musée national d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris
1978
L'Art en France de Mondrian et Marcel Duchamp a Nos Jours, Basel Art Fair, Basel (curated by René Denise)
1977
Recent Gifts/Purchases, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
1976
Invitational, John Weber Gallery
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
(in order of acquisition)
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Jewish Museum, New York
The Brooklyn Museum, New York
Musée national d'Arte Moderne, Centre George Pompidou, Paris
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada
The Menil Collection, Houston
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas
Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
Yale Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, Purchas, NY
The British Museum, Great Britain
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Caplin, Todd, “Jacob El Hanani + William Betts at Holly Johnson Gallery” moderndallas, May 2012
Simek, Lucia, “Meticulous and Minimal, INK, inc. at Holly Johnson is a Coherently Curated Exhibition”, D Magazine/Front Row Blog, August 3, 2010.
Goldberg, Isa, “Making a Name for Himself”, The Jerusalem Post, March 1, 2010.
Schwendener, Martha, "Art in Review: microwave, five," The New York Times, August 24, 2007
Newhall, Edith," Drawings that dot the 'i' in Ink: Complex and detailed work, shown at Gallery Joe ," The Philadephia Inquirer, July 20, 2007
Fallon, Roberta ,"Review: INK!," Philadelphia Weekly , July 18
Porter, Venetia, Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East, Exh. cat., London: The British Museum, 2006.
Perez-Oramas, Luis, Transforming Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings, Exh. cat., New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2006.
Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection, Exh. cat., New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2006.
Barker, Ray T. and Annie Fischer, “Art Capsule Reviews: 'Decelerate' ”, The Pitch, January 19, 2006.
Ross, Lauren, “Dating Data,” Art on Paper, May/June 2005.
Levin, Kim, “Voice Choices: ‘Paper,’ Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery,” The Village Voice, February 16-22 2005.
Binstock, Jeffrey, “Fantasy Underfoot” Artne.com, December 24, 2003.
Seidel, Miriam, “From Quiet Detail, a Hypnotic Effect”, The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 20, 2003.
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Sherman, Mary, "Open studio Press tries new 'line' of work", The Boston Herald, January 12, 2003.
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Abramowicz, Leon, "Jacob El Hanani," L'Arche, (France), June 1, p. 86, 1987.
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