Background
Nahum Tevet was born in 1946, in Kibbutz Mesilot, Israel.
Nahum Tevet was born in 1946, in Kibbutz Mesilot, Israel.
In 1962, he studied at the Oranim Seminar in Kiryat Tiv"on. In 1968, he attended the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv. In 1969-1971, he studied with Raffi Lavie.
Tevet"s conceptual work uses minimalism and other references (such as Bauhaus), creating sculptural/architectural installations based on geometrical modules. He lives and works in Tel Aviv. Nahum Tevet was the most extreme of the Israeli Minimalists in the mid-1970s.
He saw creativity as a process based on a system of abstentions and reductions.
The aim of the creative process being to impart the essence of the plastic medium. This utilitarian element was later to be developed in sculpture in the West.
In 1980 Nachum Tevet was appointed to the faculty of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem and served as director of its Master of Fine Arts program for the years 2001-2010. 1973-1976 Young Artist Scholarships, America-Israel Cultual Foundation.
1973-1976 Young Artist Scholarships, America-Israel Cultual Foundation 1979-1980 Scholarship for study in New York, America-Israel Cultual Foundation 1984 Bank Discount Prize, Tel Aviv Museum 1986 Sandberg Prize, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1990 America-Israel Cultural Foundation 1991 Fondek Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 1992 Minister of Education and Culture Prize for an Israeli Artist 2007 Life Achievement Award, Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport 2011 Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Tel AvivJaffa 1976 Israel Museum, Jerusalem. 1984 Israel Museum, Jerusalem. 1995 Städtische Gallon am Buntentor, Bremen 1991 Tel Aviv Museum. 1987 "Documenta 8", Cassel. 1982 Israel Museum, Jerusalem. 1984 Israel Museum, Jerusalem. 1985 Israel Museum, Jerusalem. 1990 Israel Museum, Jerusalem. 2004 "Seven Walks", Dundee Contemporary Art, Dundee, Scotland.
