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First Prize for Battle of Huleiqat Monument
1963
The Holocaust Monument , Upper Nazareth
1964
First Prize for the Construction of the Monument to the Seamen
1968
Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1968
First Prize for the Monument of the Holocaust and Revival, Tel Aviv
1971
For the establishment of the Jordan Valley Monument (in the Jordan Valley with Rehavam Ze'evi)
1972
First Prize from the Biennale for Drawing , Rijeka, Yugoslavia
1978
Official Award of Merit from the President of Italy
1984
Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture from the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality
1985
Guest of the Japan Foundation
1990
August Rodin International Grand Prize, Hakone Museum, Japan, for his monumental outdoor sculpture Macht Arbeit Frei? located at the Utsukushi-Ga-hara Open Air Museum, Japan
1992
Award of Excellence from the President of Germany
1997
Freedom for Israel Award
1998
The Anni and Heinrich Sussmann Prize, for Artists Depicting the Horrors of the Holocaust.
( The prize was awarded directly by the foundation in Austria, after opposition arose at Yad Vashem to awarding it to Tumarkin)
1998
Israel Prize for Art
2004
Power, Beer Sheba
2004
Yellow - Homage to Goya, Ramat Hasharon (In memory of Yoav Dagon)
2002
Amud Ha’Tichon (The Central Pillar) - Homage to Dahlia Ravikovitch, Tel Aviv (Moved from Gan Meir)
2019
גן הפסלים באנ"א (אכסניות נוער), חיפה
2019
Age of Science, Dimona
1962-69
Arad Panorama Monument
1962-68
Window to the Sea, Atlit
1963
Vibrations Wall and Sundial, Kiryat Yam (Demolished)
1963
Three-Dimensional Wall, Kiryat Yam (Demolished)
1963
The Holocaust Monument, Upper Nazareth
1964-66
Sundial Garden, Ashkelon
1968-72
Big Chief No. 5, Kiryat Shmona
1968
Monument to the crew of the submarine "Dakar", Kiryat Yam
1969
Monument to the Fallen, Ma'alot
1969-75
Memorial to the Fallen, Ashkelon
1971
Yachin and Boaz, Hayarkon Park, Tel Aviv
1971
Sculpture Garden in Holon
1971
Monument of the Holocaust and Revival, Tel Aviv
1971-75
Signpost, Haifa
1972
Monument for the Fallen, Jordan Valley
1972
Happenings, Tel Aviv University
1972
Homage to Kepler, Tel Aviv University
1972
Tumarkin Sculpture Garden in Palmachim (demolished)
1981
Sculptures in Arab villages - Definition of Trees
1981-82
Sculptures in Kibbutz Eilon – Definition of Trees
1981-83
Kunstverein Springhornhof Neuenkirchen, Germany
1983
3 sculptures in Tefen (in 2025 only one remains)
1985
3 statues at the Ovda airbase, Negev
1985
Chichen-Itza, Kiryat Menachem, Jerusalem
1985-86
Chichen Itza, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
1986
Theseus, Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
1986
Chichen Itza White, Leheigh University, Pennsylvania, USA
1986
Aggressive Couple, Ursinus College, Pennsylvania, USA
1986
Homage to Robert Capa, Penn State University, USA
1986
Dialogue, Kibbutz Ashdot Yaakov
1986
Chichen Itza Blue, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
1986
Pieta Rondanini, Sculpture Garden, Israel Museum
1987
Das Lied von Der Erde (The Song of the Earth), Tel-Hai (Demolished)
1987
Hakhnissini Takhat Knafekh (Take Me Under Your Wing), Kibbutz Harel
1988
To the Pioneers, Afula
The Valley Railway, Afula (Demolished)
1989
Homage to Robert Capa, Pozoblanco, Spain
1989
Homage to Goya, the Electric Company, Givat Olga (Demolished)
1989
La Liberté, Bordeaux, France
1989
Le Calvaire de Brest, Brest, France
1989
The Degradation of Dreyfus, Rennes,France
1989
Le Roi Soleil, Hennebont, France
1989
Day and Night, Kiryat Yam
1990
Vincent Goes to Work, Neve Eliezer, Tel Aviv
1990
Tumarkin Sculpture Garden in Kfar Daniel (moved to Burgata in 1993)
1991
The Vitruvian Man, National Museum of Science, Haifa (moved from the entrance to the city of Ma'alot)
1991
Red Trauma + Zilina, Zilina, Slovakia
1991
Von der Dicken Berta bis zur Roten Rosa, Berlin (Bundesallee/Spichernstraße)
1991
Bertolt Brecht, Berlin Museum Garden, Berlin (moved to Berlin Märkischer Platz)
1991
Macht Arbeit Frei?, Utsukushi-Ga-HaraOpen Air Museum, Japan (Laureate of the Grand Prize in the August Rodin International Competition)
1992
My Seven Pillars of Wisdom as a Homage to the Mountains of Japan, Hakone Open Air Museum, Japan
1993
Semaphore, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot
1993
Tumarkin Sculpture Garden in Burgata
1993
The Last Train to Jaffa (blue), Jaffa
1993
Tribute to Yitzhak Danziger, Ganei Yehoshua, Tel Aviv
1993
Dialogue, Abu Nabut Garden, Jaffa
1993
The Ship of Fools, Herzliya. (with Yaakov Dorchin)
1993
The Three Religions, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem. (Since 1997 at the Bezalel Academy)
1993
Bindung und Kreuzigung (Binding and Crucifixion), Darmstadt, Germany
1993
The Jerusalem Chair ,The Evangelical Academy Arnoldshain, Germany
1993
Monument to the Israeli Navy destroyer "Eilat", Haifa Port (moved to the Clandestine Immigration and Naval Museum; Haifa)
1994
Tumarkin Sculpture Garden in Belvoir (Kochav Hayarden National Park)
1994
To Shahar Genossar, Ganei Yehoshua, Tel Aviv
1995
Altar, Israel Museum Sculpture Garden
1996
In memory of Yitzhak Rabin, Ramat Gan Museum (moved from its location)
1997
In Memory of Yitzhak Rabin, High School in Yad Eliyahu, Tel Aviv
1997
Memory, Herzog High School in Holon
1997
Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Ashdod
1997
Lords of the Philistines, Ashdod
1997
Tumarkin Sculpture Garden, Abu-Nabut park, Jaffa (in collaboration with Cellcom and the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality)
2000
2 Statues in Katzrin, Golan Heights (Mey Eden) –
The Spring, and Moses Strikes the Rock
2000
East-West, Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikva
2000
Sculptures at the Soltam Factory in Yokneam –
The Army Marches on Its Belly and Semiotics in the Wind
2000
Kibbutz Hatzerim, Sculptures Path (Demolished)
2002
A statue on loan to Kibbutz Naan
Yellow - Homage to Goya, Ramat Hasharon (In memory of Yoav Dagon)
2017
Semaphore, Kibbutz Yad Mordechai
2018
Galeria Nazionale, Roma, Italy
Ludwig Museum, Köln, Germany
Marl Museum, Germany
Darmstadt Museum, Germany
Berlin Museum, Germany
Philadelphia Museum, U.S.A
MOMA, New-York, U.S.A
Jewish Museum, New-York, U.S.A
Liheigh University, Pa., U.S.A
Ursinus College, Pa., U.S.A
Rutgers University, New Jersey, U.S.A
Boston University, U.S.A
Guggenheim Museum, New-York, U.S.A
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Tel-Aviv Museum, Israel
Musée Municipal de Brest, France
Lausanne Museum, Switzerland
Stockholm Museum, Sweden
Utsukushi-ga-Hara Open-Air Museum, Japan
The Hakone Open-Air Museum, Japan
Stuyvesant Collection, Holland
Sante Landwer Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1956
Sisley Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
1958
Het-Venster Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1958
Seide Gallery, Hannover, Germany
1959
Saint-Germain Gallery, Paris
1959
Münster, Germany
1960
Bielfeld, Germany
1960
Savage Gallery, London
1960
Swedish French, Stockholm
1960
Espace Gallery, Haarlem, Netherlands
1960
Bezalel Museum, Jerusalem
1961
Saint-Germain Gallery, Paris
1961
Bonnier Gallery, Lausanne
1962
Israel Gallery, Tel Aviv
1962
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion
1962
Haifa Museum of New Art
1962
Osgood Gallery, New York
1963
Saint-Germain Gallery, Paris
1964
Loehr Gallery, Frankfurt
1965
Graphic works, Masada Gallery, Tel Aviv
1965
Tumarkin Sculptures and Paintings, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1966
Small sculptures, paintings and prints, Masada Gallery, Tel Aviv
1966
Gangsters, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
1967
Sculptures, Assemblages, Plans for Monuments, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1967
Against Violence, Beit Emanuel, Museum of Russian Art, Ramat Gan
1968
Photographs after the Six-Day War, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1968
Engel Gallery, Jerusalem
1968
Paintings, sculptures and ceramics, Masada Gallery, Tel Aviv
1968
Small-scale monuments, Mabat Gallery, Tel Aviv
1969
Bonnier Gallery, Geneva
1969
Byron Gallery, New York
1970
Horns of Hattin, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
1970
Sculptures and Drawings, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
1970
Sculptures, Haifa Museum of Modern Art
1970
Plvm 1 + 5, Bergman and Pazit Galleries, Tel Aviv
1971
Hans Hoeppner Gallery, Munich and Hamburg, Germany
1971
Stainless steel sculptures, Yodfat Gallery, Tel Aviv
1972
Bargera Gallery, Cologne
1973
War Impressions, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion
1974
The Jewish Museum, New York
1974
Gilman Gallery, Chicago
1975
Queens Museum, Fordham University, New York
1976
Sculpture Now, New York
1976
Made in USA, American Cultural Center, Jerusalem
1977
Wall Tapestries 1960-1977, Mabat Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
1977
Ten Experiments with Solar Energy, Mary Riebenfeld Gallery, Jaffa
1977
Impressions from Egypt, works on paper, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
1978
Earth – Five Variations on a Theme, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1978
The Song of the Earth (sculptures and prints), Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
1979
Oedipus Rex, A Journey in Morocco as a Tribute to Pasolini, Sarah Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem
1979
Permeation, March 79, Drawings, Sara Levy Gallery, Tel Aviv
1979
Journeys into Culture, works on paper 1956-80, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1980
The Land of the Olive and the Vine, Noemi Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv
1980
Drawings after Heinrich von Kleist, Sarah Levy Gallery, Tel Aviv
1981
Marl Museum, Germany
1981
Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
1981
Following Matthias Grunwald, Drawings, Sarah Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem
1981
Definition of an Olive Tree, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1982
Noemi Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv
1982
Gleichtag (Equinox), Kunstverein Springhornhof, Germany
1983
Art Management Rolf Kallenbach, Munich
1983
Margrit Spleiss Gallery, Zurich
1984
At Night on the Threshing Floor, Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv
1984
Noemi Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv
1984
Divided Cities, Sarah Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem
1985
Chichen Itza, Kibbutz Gallery, Old Jaffa
1985
Passim (Stripes), Meimad Gallery, Tel Aviv
1986
Israeli Sculptures, Weintraub Gallery, New York
1986
Drawings, Sara Levy Gallery, Tel Aviv
1987
Deutschland ein Wintermärche (Germany, a Winter's Tale), Monochrom Gallery, Aachen, Germany
1987
Vincent, Haifa Museum of Modern Art
1988
Vincent, Hans Hoeppner Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
1988
Witches' Sabbath, Meimad Gallery, Tel Aviv
1988
Vincent Goes to Work, Givon Gallery and Mabat Gallery, Tel Aviv
1988
Le Roi des Aulnes (Michel Tournier), Hennebont, France
1989
Vincent, Hans Hoeppner Gallery, Munich
1989
Revolutions, French Institute, Tel Aviv
1989
Theatre, Kibbutz Hazorea and Arad Museum
1989
Three Israeli Myths, Israel Festival, Jerusalem
1989
Revolutions, The French Institute, Tel Aviv
1989
Revolutions, Municipal Museum, Brest, France
1989
Le Roi des Aulnes (Michel Tournier), National Library, Brest, France
1989
King Ubu, Claude Samuel Gallery, Paris
1990
Mabat Gallery, Tel Aviv
1990
Walter Benjamin, Habima National Theater, Tel Aviv
1990
Revolutions, Tour Saint-Nicolas, Hennebont, France
1990
Homage to Bertolt Brecht, Goethe-Institut, Paris
1990
Walter Benjamin's Nightmare, Goethe Institute, Tel Aviv
1991
Was Beethoven a Jew?, Goethe-Institut, Paris
1991
Zen, Herzliya Museum of Art
1991
Sculptures, Povazska Galeria, Zilina, Slovakia
1991
Schützen Wappen Entrüsten (Defend-Arm-Provoke), International Symposium at Kugelbake Fortress Cuxhaven, Germany
1991
Goethe, Hans Hoeppner Gallery, Frankfurt
1991
Ein Deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), Manfred Giesler Gallery, Berlin
1991
Tumarkin 1957-1992 Retrospective, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1992
Art Management Rolf Kallenbach Gallery, Munich, Germany
1992
Mabat Gallery, Tel Aviv
1992
Prints & Small Sculptures. Harel Publishers and Printers, Jaffa
1993
Reliefs, Drawings and Graphics, Evangelical Academy, Arnoldshain, Germany
1993
Demi Retrospective, The Loft, Hangar No. 1, Jaffa Port
1994
Igael Tumarkin, The Hakone Open Air Museum, Japan
1994
The Holy, the Profane, the Art, the Evangelical Academy, Loccum, Germany
1995
Marcel Gordon University Club, Tel Aviv University
1995
Sculptures, Drawings and Graphics, Nanu Gallery, Frankfurt
1995
Drawings for the play "David" (Bertolt Brecht), Raab Gallery, Berlin
1995
Pillar, Cross, Sign, Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art
1996
Mein Blaues Klavier (My Blue Piano) For Else Lasker-Schüller, Mabat Gallery, Tel Aviv
1997
Five Floor Sculptures and One Metamorphosis, Mary Faouzi Gallery, Jaffa
1997
Meningitis Blue, French Institute, Tel Aviv
1997
Sculptures at Brekhat Ha’Sultan, the International Arts and Crafts Fair, Jerusalem
1998
Drawings and Models for Monuments and outdoor sculptures 1970-79, Golconda Gallery, Tel Aviv
1998
Garderobe (Wardrobe), Claude Samuel Gallery, Paris
1998
24 Days with Bialik, Painted Bialik Heads, Bialik House, Tel Aviv
1999
Portrait, Alon Gallery, High School and Community Center, Ramat Hasharon
1999
Homage to Francisco Goya, Goya's birthplace, Fuendetodos, Spain
1999
Homage to Yitzhak Rabin, Golconda Gallery, Tel Aviv
1999
To Paint a Mockingbird, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1999
Napoléon chez Tumarkin à Jaffa (Napoleon at Tumarkin's in Jaffa), French Institute, Tel Aviv
2000
Homage to Filippo Brunelleschi, Avni Institute, Tel Aviv
2000
Heads, Studio Gallery, Raanana
2000
Pillars, Golconda Gallery, Tel Aviv
2001
Angel of History or Requiem for the Analogue Age, Avni Institute, Tel Aviv
2001
Sculptures at the Diamond Bourse, Ramat Gan
2002
Globalism Now, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv
2002
Ludwig Van, Art Management Rolf Kallenbach Gallery, Munich, Germany
2002
The Emperor (Frederick II of Hohenstaufen), Gallery on the Cliff, Netanya
2003
Tumarkin in Jerusalem, Jerusalem Product Brand House, Jerusalem
2004
The Emperor, Arad Museum
2004
Retrospective In the Shadow of Oranges, Bar David Museum, Kibbutz Bar'am
2005
The Masters, Oranim, Art Institute Gallery
2005
50 Years of Creation, Zisman Gallery and Opal Gallery, Tel Aviv
2009
Tumarkin in the Workshop: Engravings and Artist's Books, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2010
Outdoor sculptures, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv
2011
Paris 1957-59, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv
2011
Igael Tumarkin, Special Exhibition from the Museum Collection, Goethe Garden, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2012
Drawings, chapters and imaginations, the gallery at Kibbutz Naan
2012
In honor of Tumarkin 80th Birthday, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv
2013
Programs, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv
2013
Tumarkin before Tumarkin, 31 Early Sculptures, Dan Gallery, Tel Aviv
2014
Semaphore, Exhibition of Records (Brecht, Benjamin, Goethe), Kibbutz Yad Mordechai Gallery, for the installation of the statue on the kibbutz
2018
Igael Tumarkin: Innovation and Boldness in Printing 1971-2010, Harel Printers and Publishers, Tel Aviv
2021

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