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Nahum Tevet, Israeli, was born in 1946.

Nahum Tevet was born in 1946 on Kibbutz Mesilot to Mendel and Feiga Marin Toib. In his youth he studied art at the Oranim College of Education, where he studied with artists like Janco, Claire Yaniv and others. In the Six Day War he served as an officer in the armored corps in the Golan Heights. Afterward, he began studying art at the Avni Institute and with Rafi Lavie. Through him, Tevet made contact with a group of artists who had been his students and who were identified with the Arte Povera (literally poor art) school of art. In the 1980s he published art reviews in Ha'ir. In 2001 he founded Bezalel's Master in Fine Arts program. He lives and works in Tel Aviv-Yafo.

Tevet's early work, beginning in the 1970s, was influenced by modernist and minimalist art. It included the use of collage and other meager materials and contained an ars poetica dimension. In works such as “Arrangement of Six Units” or "Corner" (1973-1974) Tevet made use of improvised structures made of painted plywood, ranging from abstract shapes to useful objects. Since the 1980s, Tevet's work has become more complex. The wooden structures have become objects of a modernist urban landscape. The structures have been organized into a complex formation, with an inner logic, which looks different from every angle of observation. This arrangement examines the relationship between the work of art and the viewer. He lives and creates his art in Tel Aviv-Jaffa.

Education

1962 -Oranim Seminar, Tivon
1968 - Avni Institute, Tel Aviv
1969-71 - With Rafi Lavi, Ramat Gan

Teaching

Since 1980 Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem, Professor of graduate course
2001-2010 Head of MFA Program, Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Tel Aviv

Awards And Prizes

1973-1976, The America-Israel Cultural Foundation Sharett Fund Scholarship
1979-80, Scholarship for studies in the USA, America-Israel Cultural Foundation, for Study in New York City
1984 Bank Discount Prize for an Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1986 Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1990 George and Janet Jaffin Prize for Excellence in Plastic Arts, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
1991 The Mendel and Eva Pundik Foundation Prize for an Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
1992 Prize for an Israeli Artist, Ministry of Education and Culture
2007 Life Achievement Award, Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport
2011 Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa
2013 EMET Prize, The A.M.N. Foundation for the Advancement of Science, Art and Culture