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Yitzhak Golombek, Israeli, born Poland, 1956.

Yitzhak (Itche) Golombek was born in Lodz, Poland in 1956. In 1964 he immigrated to Israel. Golombek's early works included floor sculptures composed of elements such as iron wires and carvings. In the late 1980s he began to create sculptures made of bent plywood and numerous other items. In these sculptures, images such as a comb, drops of tears, mattresses or the artist's signature were changed in scale and placed one on top of the other. During the 1990s he began to incorporate additional elements, such as glass boxes, into his work and began to work also in the medium of drawing.

Education

1978-81 Art Teachers College, Ramat Hasharon.

Teaching

1985-86 "Camera Obscura", Tel Aviv
1986 Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design, Jerusalem
1985-96 Art Teachers' College, Ramat Hasharon
1987-92 Thelma Yellin National School of Arts, Givatayim
1991-95 Haifa University
1996-2003 Haifa University, Art Department.
2001-02 Beit Berl School of Art, Center of Sculpture Studies, Kfar Saba

Awards And Prizes

1986 Beatrice Kolliner Prize for a Young Israeli Artist, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1988 Prize for a Young Artist, for Art and Sculpture, Ministry of Education and Culture
1989 Prize for Creativity, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
1989 Prize, Ministry of Education and Culture
1989 Oscar Hendler Prize, Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot
2001 Prize for the Encouragement of Creative Art, Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport
2006 Prize for Creations in the Realm of Plastic Arts, Ministry of Science and the Arts
2014 Artist-in-residence, Artists' Studio, Dusseldorf, Germany
2014 Ilana Elovic Bezalel Prize, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
2017 Prize for an Established Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv