Solo Exhibitions
1954 Chemerinsky Art Gallery in Tel Aviv, Israel
1957 Galerie Espace Haarlem, Netherlands
Galerie Colette Allendy, Paris
1959 Galerie Espace Haarlem, Netherlands
1961 “Lea Nikel: Paintings”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Dizengoff House,
Israel and Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
1966 “Lea Nikel: Paintings of Recent Years”, Haifa Museum of Modern
Art, Israel
1973 “Lea Nikel: Paintings 1963-1973”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena
Rubinstein Pavilion, Israel
1975 “Watercolors, Collages & Mixed Media”, America-Israel Cultural
Center, New York
1985 “Lea Nikel”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
1987 “Lea Nikel: Works on Paper”, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat
Gan, Israel
1989 Mokotoff Gallery, New York
1990 “Nikel”, Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
“Lea Nikel”, Barbican Center, London
1992 “Lea Nikel: Book”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein
Pavilion, Tel Aviv, Israel
1995 “Lea Nikel - A Retrospective”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv,
Israel (short film)
2000 “Triangle, Circle, Square” – Omanut La'am, travelling exhibition
“Lea Nikel, New Works”, Ashdod Museum of Art, 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”, Sommer Contemporary Art
Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2004 “Lea Nikel – Paris 1950-1961”, Mane Katz Museum, Haifa, Israel
(short film)
‘Hastudio’ Art College, Raanana – a series of Artist’s Books, a
special project
2005 Younis Alkara Art Gallery, Dalyat El-Carmel, Israel
2005 “Lea Nikel – Watercolor on Paper”, ‘Hacheder’ Gallery, Tel Aviv,
Israel (short film)
2005 “Lea Nikel – New Works”, Sommer Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel
Aviv, Israel
2006 “From the Figurative to the Abstract, Lea Nikel – The Paris Years
1950-1961”, Rubin Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
“Lea Nikel – Works on Paper 70’s-80’s” Sommer Contemporary Art
Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2007 “Lea Nikel Works 1976-2004” Esty Reshef Curator, Kiryat Tivon
Memorial Center, Israel
2008 “Lea Nikel Collages, Works on Paper”, the Rehovot Municipal Art
Gallery, Israel
Group Exhibitions
1951 “Second Salon of Young Painters”, Galerie Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
1953 “Israeli Painters in Paris”, Galerie Zak, Paris, France; Katia Granoff
Gallery, Paris
Plastic Arts Exhibition, Villetaneuse, 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
1958 “Galleria La Salita, Rome, 12 Artists”, Bezalel National Museum,
Jerusalem, Israel
1959 “Beyond the Informal”, Galerie Colette Allendy, Paris, France
1960 “Contemporary Israeli Art”, National Museum of Modern Art, Paris,
France
1961 “Contemporary Art in Israel”, Third Exhibition, Tel Aviv Museum of
Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv, Israel
1964 “Art Israel: 26 Painters and Sculptors”, Travelling Exhibition,
Museum of Modern Art, New York
“Aroch, Nikel, Tumarkin”, the 32nd Biennale, Venice, Italy
1965 “Trends in Israeli Art”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1971 “Twenty Israeli Artists”, Handwerkskammer, Cologne and the City
Museum, Wiesbaden, Germany
“Israeli Art”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
1973 “Self Portrait in Israeli Art”, Haifa Museum of Modern Art, Haifa,
Israel
1981 “Israeli Artists – 1920-1980”, The Jewish Museum, New York
1983 “The 6 th International Art Biennial”, Valparaiso, Chile
1984 “Two Years, 1983-1984, Israeli Art, Qualities Accumulated”, Tel
Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Israel
1985 “Milestones in Israel Art”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
“Israeli Art 1960-1985”, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp,
Belgium
1987 “Format-Artist, Artist-Format, Israel Painting in Big Format”,
Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel
1989 “New acquisitions” Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein
Pavilion, Israel
1992 “Contemporary Israeli Landscapes”, Expo 92, Seville, Spain
1994 “The Johannesburg Biennale - Africus 95”, Johannesburg, South
Africa
1995 The Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan; Wellington Art Museum,
New Zealand; Bangkok Art Museum, Thailand
1998 “Three Generations, Contemporary Art”, University of London;
The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athenes
1999 The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
2000 “Israeli Art Today”, The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan
2005 Ella Gallery, Yemin Moshe, Jerusalem; Avner Katz, Nikel,
Kadishman, Rauchwerger
2007 “From ‘Yad LaBanim’ to ‘Art Museum’ Art collections from Petach-
Tikva museum of Art, Ashdod Art Museum, Israel
2005 “Paperwork”, ‘Hacheder’ Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2007 “The First Twenty Years”, Curator: Tali Cohen Garbuz, Memorial
Center Art Gallery, Kiryat Tivon, Israel.
2008 “60 Years of Israeli Art:
The First Decade: 1948-1958: Hegemony and Plurality”, Museum of
Art Ein-Harod, Israel
The Second Decade: 1958-1968: “The Birth of ‘Now’: Art in Israel
in the 1960s”, Ashdod Art Museum, Israel
2008 “NOIR” Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2008 “Three Generations”, The Kupferman Collection, Kibbutz Lohamei
HaGetaot
2008 “Van Gogh in Tel Aviv, Israeli Artists in a Dialogue with Van Gogh“,
Rubin Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
2009 Art TLV “From Top to Bottom”
2009 “A Selection of Israeli Art from the Collection of Gaby and Ami
Brown”, Museum of Art, Ein-Harod, Israel
2009 Yehuda Assia Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2009 “Mind the Cracks! Collages from the Museum and from Other
Collections”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2010 “Women in Israeli Art”, Discount Bank Collection, Herzl-Lilienblum
Museum