Leonid Balklav
1956 Born in Beltze, Moldovia, USSR
1971-1973 Studied at an art school in Kiev
1974 Studied at the Art Institute , Odessa
1990 Immigrated to Israel
One- Artist Exhibitions
1978 Scientists' House, Kiev
1988 The Jewish Center, Moscow
1989 Central Artists' House, Kishinev, Moldavia
1991 "Immigrant Artists", Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
1993 "Cypresses", Artists' House, Jerusalem
1994 "From There to Here", Museum of Art, Ein Harod
1997 "Drawings 93-97", Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya
1998 "Landscape and Still-Life", Artspace, Jerusalem
2000 "Portrait", Artspace, Jerusalem
2002 "The Face of Light", Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel, the exhibition
Traveled to Bat Yam Museum of Art; Mane-Katz Museum, Haifa;
Ashdod Art Museum; Rehovot Municipal Gallery, Israel
2007 "Leonid Balklav, Works 1995-2007", Ella Gallery, Jerusalem
2010 "Togetherness,"Engel Gallery, Tel Aviv
2014 Zemack Gallery, Tel Aviv
2015 "An Obsessive Portraitists", Tel Aviv Museum
Group Exhibitions
1977 Participated in ten exhibitions in Moldovia, USSR
1990 "Immigrants '90", Z.O.A House, Tel Aviv
"Immigrants Artists", Artists' House, Jerusalem
"Russian Avantgarde", Hilton Hotel, Jerusalem
1991 "Self Portrait as ID Card", The Artists' House, Jerusalem
"Black and White", Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
1992 "Russian Artists in New York," Michael Gallery, New York
"Art Focus," The Artists' House Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Fisher
Gallery, Mishkenot Sha'ananim, Jerusalem
New Acquisitions," The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1995 "Mirror I Mirror," Youth Wing, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1997 "At Eye Height," The Artists' House, Jerusalem
"Many Faces of the Portrait," Bat Yam Museum of Art, Bat Yam,Israel
1998 "Where Have We Come From and Where Do We Go?" , Yad Labanim Museum, Petach Tikva, Israel.
1999 Recipients of the Jerusalem Prize exhibition, Municipal Gallery, Jerusalem
2000 "This is My Land," Engel Gallery, Tel Aviv
2002 "On Every Face: 4,000 Years of Portraiture," Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2004 "Traces II: Drawing| Poetry – Biennale for Drawing," The Artists' House, Jerusalem
2005 "No New Jew: Israeli Art in the Footsteps of Jewish Art," Time For Art, Tel Aviv
Leonid Balaklav & Uri Shechner: Tribute in Memory of Rami Parsov," Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel
2010 "FestivArt: Works from the Gallery Collection," Engel Gallery, Tel Aviv
2014 "Blue and White Delfware," Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Prizes
1987 Gold Medal, The International Film Festival, Tokyo
1995 Jerusalem Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Jerusalem
2002 The Israel Discount Bank Prize for an Israeli Artist, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2015 The 2014 Haim Shiff Prize for Figurative- Realist Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art