Andi LaVine Arnovitz was born and raised in the United States. She earned her BFA from Washington University in St. Louis and immigrated to Israel in 1999.
Her work has been shown in Europe, Israel, Canada, China, the USA and Eastern Europe; as well as her work is part of many collections including the US Library of Congress, The Israel National Library, The Smithsonian Museum, The Museum of the Diaspora.
I’M NOT / The Jerusalem Biennale / October 2019 / Permanent Installation at the Israel Aquarium, Jerusalem
PORCELAIN POEMS / Agrippas 12 Gallery. Jerusalem/ January 2019
THE BLACK LIST / The Jerusalem Artist’s House, Jerusalem/ June-August 2017
THE BECKONING PAGE / Agrippas 12 Gallery, Jerusalem / May 2017
THREATENED BEAUTY / Yeshiva University Museum, NYC / September – January 2015
LA Mayer Museum of Islamic Art, Jerusalem / March – June 2015
PLEASE STOP TALKING / Agrippas Gallery, Jerusalem / June – July 2015
PERSISTENT REALITIES / University of Southern California /
January – March 2015
TENDER SHREDS / JCC Gallery, Overland Park, Kansas / April 2013
TEAR/REPAIR / George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA / 2011
Yeshiva University Museum, New York, NY / 2010
Kniznick Gallery, Brandeis University, Boston, MA / 2010
2021
The House Is in the Book/ Jerusalem Biennale
Eternal Feminine/Eternal Change/ Florence Biennale/ Italy
Heat and Dust/ virtual exhibition/ India International Center/ Delhi, India
Quarantine Art/ Mostra Museum/ San Paolo/ Brazil
Nashkevillin/Krakow Jewish Festival/ Poland
Diversity and Activism: Contemporary Women Artists in Israel Today/ Tel Aviv University
Life/Still LIfe/Land/ Museum on the Seam/Jerusalem
Complex Geographies/ Taubman Museum/ Virginia
In and Out, Between and Beyond/ Stern Gallery/Hebrew University/Jerusalem
State of Repair/ Vacant Museum/ New York/ USA
Murmurings/ Tel Aviv Artists House
Shalom Sisters/Augsburg Jewish Museum/Augsburg, Germany
Quarantine Public Library/invited artist
2020
Trespassing/ The Islamic Museum/ Jerusalem/ National Collage Society Juried Competition/ virtual exhibtion Isolation Collection/ virtual exhibition
2019
Crimes and Minor Offenses / The Tel Aviv Artist’s House / Tel Aviv
Nurse, Nurse / Manofim Festival / Jerusalem
Breaching Borders: The 16th International Tapestry Triennial / Lodz / Poland
Relationships / HUC Museum /NYC / USA
Living Under Water / The Jerusalem Biennale of Jewish Art / Jerusalem / Israel
Talking Rugs / Ben Gurion University / Israel
Between Right and Left / Central Art Gallery / Tel Aviv/ Israel
Cherchez La Femme / Stadhaus Ulm / Germany|
Visions of Place / Susquehanna Art Museum / USA
Return of the Dress / Agrippas 12 Gallery / Jerusalem / Israel
Text and Image: Artists Engage with the Bible / Yale University/ USA
Evolutionary Tradition: Asian Contemporary Print / Sichuan Fine Art Museum / China
From the Artist’s Dairy / Hermann Struck Museum /Haifa/ Israel
Israeli Spirit / Eretz Israel Museum / Tel Aviv / Israel
The Artist’s Book / Agrippas 12 Gallery / Jerusalem / Israel
2018
70 Years of Israeli Art / Minghei Museum, San Diego
Hamsa,Hamsa,Hamsa / The Islamic Museum, Jerusalem
Welcome to Jerusalem / The Jewish Museum, Berlin
Sacred Goods / The Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
Territories Unraveled / The Jerusalem Artists House, Jerusalem
70 Years Israeli Art / Trumpledor Gallery, Be’ersheva, Israel
Cherchez La Femme / Franconia Jewish Museum, Franconia, Germany
No Name / The Municipal Gallery, Rehovot, Israel
2017
The Jerusalem Biennale of Jewish Art / Jerusalem, Israel
Home / HUC Museum NYC
Across Divides: Borders and Boundaries / Derner Museum, NY, NY
Thou Shalt Not / Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
Tzena Urena / Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel
Cherchez La Femme: Wigs, Burqa, Habit / The Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany
Here Is Your Kettubah/ Museum of Art Ein Harod, Israel
The Return of Paper: Reflections on Drawing, 6th National Drawing Bienalle / Jerusalem, Israel
Text and Textiles / Mana Contemporary Gallery, Jersey City, New Jersey
2016
And There was Evening and Morning…One Light / Gordon London House, Rishon Letzion, Israel
Intimate Transgressions / Chiang Kai Shek National Museum, Taiwan
New Series / The Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem, Israel
Feminine Consciousness /Beit Gavriel Gallery, Israel
Variances and Repetition: Jewish Art as a Reflection of Contemporary Art /Mani Katz Museum, Haifa, Israel
Camouflage / Agrippas 12 Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
The New Venice Haggadah / The Jewish Museum, Venice, Italy
Intimate Transgressions / Hangzou, China
Re-Action, Genealogia y Contracanon /Casal Solleric/ Mallorca, Spain
2015
Visions of Place; Complex Geographies in Contemporary Israeli Art / Rutgers University / USA
Art in the Street / Tel Aviv, Israel
Intimate Transgressions / White Box Gallery NYC / Shanghai / Beijing
The Wandering Jew / Mani Katz Museum / Haifa, Israel
The Jerusalem Biennale of Jewish Art / Jerusalem, Israel
Re-Action, Genealogia y Contracanon / Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Evil: A Matter of Choice / HUC Museum NYC
Flight Patterns / Welsch Gallery / Georgia State University / USA
2014
The Print Center‘s 88th International Print Competition / Philadelphia
(one of ten finalists out of 650 international entrants)
Flight Patterns / Atlanta-Hartsfeld International Airport
Artists Books, Shulamit Gallery / Los Angeles, CA
Textile Art in Israel / Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
2013
Muslima / International Museum of Women, on-line juried exhibition
Paper Art in Israel II / Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
Layers of Identity: Prints from the Jerusalem Print Workshop / LA Print Space at the Pacific Design Center
Jerusalem Bienalle of Jewish Art / Jerusalem
In the Name of Honor / Christies and the Sara Charlton Charitable Foundation, London, England
Sacred Words, Sacred Texts / Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, CA
The Book As Art / Atlanta Art Institute, Atlanta, Georgia
As Subject and Object: Contemporary Book Artists Explore Sacred Hebrew Texts / Museum of Biblical Art, NYC
2012
Artists4Israel / Miami, (Art Basel) FL
Spectrum of Sexuality / Hebrew Union College Museum, New York
Cover Thy Head / Baycrest Jewish Heritage Museum, Toronto, Canada
Jewish Artist of the Year, finalist group show / Ben Uri Gallery, London, England
Matronita, Jewish Feminist Art / Mishkan Le’Omanut, Museum of Art, Ein Harod
2011
A Season in Heaven / Florentin 45 Contemporary Art Space, Tel Aviv
Let Books be Your Pleasure Gardens / Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University,
New Haven, Connecticut
2010
Rupture/Repair / Barrier Art Center, Apter Gallery, Ma’alot, Israel
A Stitch in Jewish Time / Hebrew Union College Museum, New York, NY
2021
Illustration Magazine/ Andi Arnovitz: Artist’s Books /summer issue 2021
Art Market Magazine/ Andi Arnovitz: Medical Exploration/ June Issue #60
The Jerusalem Report Magazine/ “Against the Flow: the artistic world of Andi Arnovitz” / March 8, 2021
HYPERALLERGIC/ A view from the Easel during times of Quarantine /February 2021
2020
Instagram and Facebook/ March/ Quarantine Diaries: 23 Creators- 10 Countries
Hadassah Magazine/ January-February 2020 /”Artists Respond to Climate Change”
2019
The Times of Israel/December 19,2019/ “Toilet Rolls out of Peace Accords and Dead Sea Addictions- Artist Books, Israeli style.”
The Jerusalem Report/ December 9, 2019 “The Incredible Breadth of Art: The Jerusalem Biennale”
The Jewish Week/ November 13, 2019/ “The family ties that bind”
The Jerusalem Post /October 2019/ “Fishy Business”
Times of Israel/October 15, 2019/ “Why do you create art?”
2017
The Prosen People/ December 12, 2017/ “Five Contemporary Jewish Artworks You Should Know”
The Forward/ October 31, 2017/ “The Jewish Community Still Discriminates Against Bastards. These Artists Are Demanding Change”
Haartez/September 3,2017/ “The Plight of a Museum Standing on the Seam Between Jerusalem and Israeli Society”
The Jerusalem Post/ July 21, 2017/ “Food For Thought”
Makor Rishon/ March 11, 2017/ “The Shatnes of Holy and Contemporary”
2016
ArtVersed Blog/ April 2016/ “Art and Feminism: Ten Contemporary Artists to Know”
2015
Commentary Magazine / September 2015 / “Better than Banksy Disneyland Hackery”
The New York Times / May 13,2015 / “Israeli Artist Stitches Art and politics Together.”
The Jerusalem Post / April 19,2015 / Art: Beauty and the ‘Beasts’
An Schläge Feminsttische Magazin / “Religious Feminism”
Moment Magazine / “What is Jewish art?”
2014
Surface Design Magazine / Winter “Migrant Media”
Tenou’a Magazine / Fall (work featured)
The Jerusalem Post / March 24, 2014 / “A tapestry of rich and royal hue”
Art in Print / A Journal of Prints and Ideas / “News of the Print World”
2013
Ha’aretz / September 17, 2013 / “Jewish art is cool”
Tenou’a Journal / summer/fall (work featured)
Huffington Post / “Tender Shreds: Art explores Israeli sexuality and politics”
Kansas City Star / April 30 / “Needling Works”
Kansas City Jewish Chronicle / April 11, 2012 / “JCC features American-Israeli artist Andi Arnovitz in new exhibit”
Kansas City Jewish Chronicle / November 8 / “Artist’s creations employ quintessential Jewish methods”
Tenou’a magazine / Spring edition (work featured)
Makor Rishon / October 5 / “Art as a tool for change”
Ha’aretz / February 17 / “Jewish look at the roots of feminism”
Times of Israel / May 29 / “Stitching the Torah’s Precepts together”
Visual ArtBeat Magazine February / “New Collections” (work featured)
Huffington Post / December
2011
FiberArts / Winter / “Text and Transformation”
Hand Eye magazine / January / “A Stitch in Jewish Time”
Giotecha magazine / October
Tablet Magazine / July
2010
Tablet Magazine / February / “Unchained”
The Jewish Press / October / “A Stitch in Jewish time: Provocative Textiles”
Kolech on line magazine
Sh’ma Magazine / June / (work featured)
2009
The Christian Science Monitor / “People Making a difference: Andi Arnovitz”
Invited member of the Feminist Artist Base of the Brooklyn Museum of Art
Member of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Academic Advisory Committee
Artist in Residence, The New Venice Haggadah Project, Venice, Italy, October 2015
Lead Artist, Living Underwater, a Climate Change Project of Beit Venezia, Venice,Italy October 2018
Board Member, The Jerusalem Season of Culture
The Museum of the Diaspora, Tel Aviv, Israel
Yale University
The Smithsonian Museum of American History
US Library of Congress
National Library of Israel
University of California in Los Angeles
Magnus Library, University of California at Berkeley
Israel Foreign Ministry
Yeshiva University Museum
Museum of Art Ein Harod, Israel
Private and corporate collections in Israel, Europe and the United States
