Noemi Smilansky, born Cracow, Poland. 1918.
Worked mainly in etching and book illustration.
Participated several times in Biennales in California and New Hampshire.
Lived and worked in Moshav Meishar, near Rehovot.
Died in 2016.

Education
Hebrew Teachers College
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, graduate, studied drawing and painting with Mordecai Ardon, etching and woodcutting with Bodko
1960 Central School of Arts and Crafts, London, England, Etching, Intaglio Printmaking,
1966-67 Boston, Massachussetts, USA, further studies, Impressions Workshop
1967-68 Pratt Institute of Art, Graphics Center, New York City
1968-69 "Tamarind Litography Workshop", Los Angeles
1986-87 Photo Etching Studio, Boldotavo, Italy, Loui Camnizer

Teaching
Late 1940s Elementary School, Rehovot
1956-1980 Deshalit High School, Rehovot, History of Art
1983 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Etching and Art History

Noemi Smilansky (1918 - 2016) was an Israeli painter, printmaker and illustrator.

Biography

Smilansky was born in 1918 in Krakow, Poland, and in 1922 immigrated to Eretz Israel (then Mandatory Palestine).

When she was still a young student, she helped her family by giving private lessons. Despite the economic situation of her family, they were highly cultural and were influenced by the culture of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. 
Even as a child in Krakow her mother used to take her to exhibitions, and in Jerusalem, she taught her to read and write poetry in German, hence at school she was considered a “strange” and “different".

In 1932, at the age of 16, she began to study at the teachers' seminary in Beit Hakerem, Jerusalem, where she met her husband, the writer Yizhar Smilansky (S. Yizhar), and the two became a couple in 1933. 
After finishing their studies Yizhar went to teach in Yavniel and Noemi went to teach in Kibbutz Geva. 
In 1937 - 1941 she studied painting and drawing with Mordecai Ardon and etching and woodcut with Joseph Budko at Bezalel.

In 1960 she studied at Central School for Arts and Crafts in London and had additional training in Boston and New York. 
In 1950 - 1986 she was an Art History Teacher at "De Shalit" high school, Rehovot.

In 1968 she received a scholarship from the "Ford Foundation" and spent four months in the workshop "Tamarind" in Los Angeles. When she was about seventy, she taught etching at Bezalel.

Dr. Haim Gamzu regarded her as one of the most important etching artists in Israel.

In an interview she said that she needed to fight for her art: "First of all, there is the matter of the place. In order to write you need a table and that's it, but art needs a place or space, especially engravings. You should also have a dark room and acids, which incidentally have destroyed my lungs ...". In regard to the question whether Yizhar, her husband, appreciated and loved her art, Smilansky replied: "How do I know? He did not say anything bad, so I suppose he did. Nor did I show him everything." At the studio, a past chicken coop, she created etchings by using a press gifted by Nachum Gutman and then with a press she bought by herself.

For many years Smilansky wrote stories for children and adults, but never published them, apart from the story "Closing" deals with her mother's funeral.

She lived and worked in Moshav Meishar, near Rehovot. 
Her works are in public collections, private collections and museums around the world.

Solo Exhibitions

1960 Noemi Smilansky - Solo exhibition, Chemerinsky Art Gallery, Tel Aviv

1962 Etchings, Nora Gallery, Jerusalem 

1963 Bezalel Museum, Jerusalem.

1965 Museum of the Negev, Beersheba.
1968 Dugit Gallery, Tel Aviv.

1968 Engel Gallery, Jerusalem

1970 Boston University, Boston
         Graphics, Dugith Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
1975 Graphics, Goldman Art Gallery, Haifa 

1976 Israeli Group Show of Contemporary Graphics – Preview, Erica Williams Gallery, Seattle
         Etchings 1966-1976, Tel Aviv Art Museum

1978 Presented as part of the 6th Biennial in Florence, Italy

1979 Gallery Hirschberg, Boston
         Recent Prints and Engravings, Cole Galleries, Buffalo, N.Y., USA
         Recent Prints, Erica Williams / Anne Johnson Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA
         Recent Prints, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv

1980 Gallery Chapman, Canberra, Australia.

1981 Call Kadishman, a group exhibition, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

1982 A Journey to the Land of the Nile, Goldman Art Gallery, Haifa
1983 Etchings and Lithographs, The Center for Visual Art, Beersheba

1984 Kibbutz Kabri
         Mediterranean Leaves, Hamishkan Le'omanut, Beth Meirov, Holon

1988 Etchings, Sarah Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv.

1990 Watercolours, Municipal Art Gallery, Smilansky Cultural Center, Rehovot
         Watercolours, Noga - Art Gallery, Herzliya
1991 Aquarelle, Ephrat Gallery, Tel Aviv
1992 Working Proof: Prints from the Experimental Etching Studio, Public Library, Boston
1993 Etchings 1987-1993, Art Gallery at the Memorial Center, Kiryat Tivon
            Noemi Smilansky – Variations, Noga - Art Gallery, Herzliya

1994 Portraits, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
1995 Noemi Smilansky - Ziva, Aquarelles, The Studio - College of Art Studies, Raanana
         Images, Etchings, Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv

1997 Noemi Smilansky - Ten Years, Hamishkan Le'omanut, Beth Meirov, Holon
1999 Noemi Smilansky – Portraits, David Yellin College Gallery, Jerusalem
2003 The Candles, Bet Michal - 10 Gallery, Rehovot

2008 Landscape: four walls and a yearning, Yavneh Art Workshop
         Not a Summary, Municipal Art Gallery, Smilansky Cultural Center, Rehovot

Group Exhibitions

2016 History of Her-Story, Zaritsky Artists House, Tel Aviv
            Body of Work, Art Space TLV, Tel Aviv
2013 Print Time: Works from the Jerusalem Workshop and the Gottesman Center, The Open Museum, Tefen Industrial Park
2009 Meeting / Place, Cabri Gallery of Israeli Art, Kibbutz Cabri
2008 Etching, Gottesman Etching Center, Kabri
2007 On Paper - Prints by Israeli Artists, Ashdod Art Museum, Monart Center
         Portfolios, The Korin Maman Ashdod Museum
2006 Portfolios From The Gottesman Center, Kibbutz Cabri, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2000 Pomegranate Harvest, Municipal Gallery, Kfar Saba
1999 Pomegranate Harvest, The Korin Maman Ashdod Museum
         Etchings - Kabri Workshop Celebrates 6 Years, Cabri Gallery of Contemporary Art
1998 Vision of Light: A Century of Watercolor in Israel, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
         Nevertheless Milk and Honey Country, Artists Pavilion, Rishon Le Zion
1997 Many faces for the portrait, Bat Yam Museum of Contemporary Art
1996 Artists Messengers of Peace, Artists' House, Jerusalem
1994 ''First in '65 Meet in '94'', The Korin Maman Ashdod Museum
1993 Six Watercolour Artists, Bat Yam Museum of Contemporary Art
1992 Print +, The Korin Maman Ashdod Museum
        Group Exhibition, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
        Group Exhibition, el Aviv Artists' Studios
        Print +, Municipal Art Gallery, Smilansky Cultural Center, Rehovot
        From the Limits of the West: The 500th Anniversary of the Expulsion from Spain, Avraham Baron Gallery, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva
1991 Back to Painting in Israeli Prints, Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
1988 Still Life, Traveling Exhibition, Israel
1986 Group Exhibition – Prints, helouche, Art Center, Tel Aviv
1983 Contemporary Graphic-Art in Israel, Mounting Exhibition, USA
1982 Group Exhibition: The Print Art in Israel, Traveling Exhibition, Israel
1981 Israeli Prints from the Burston Graphic Center, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1979 The Israeli Grafotec, Shaar Zion Library, Beit Ariella, Tel Aviv
         Bank Discount Album 78/79, Gilart Gallery, Tel Aviv
         The Kadishman Connection, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1976 Exhibition of the Museum’s Israeli Art Collection, Haifa Museum of Modern Art
1975 Joint Exhibition with Reuven (Berman) Kadim, Cultural Center, the Municipality of Rehovot
         Graphic Art 25, Traveling Exhibition, Israel
1973 Graphic Art in Israel Today, Tel Aviv Art Museum
1971 Zwanzig Israelische Kunstler, Handwerkskammer Köln, Germany
1969 Art Festival, Painting & Sculpture in Israel, The Exhibition Grounds, Tel Aviv
1968 Group Exhibition, Pratt Institute, New York, USA
1967 Artists in Israel for the Defense, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion
         The First Exhibition of Israeli Graphic-Art, Museum for Modern Art, Haifa + Yad Labanim Museum, Petach Tikva
1966 Israeli Painters 6, Traveling Exhibition, Israel
1952 Painting and Sculpture in Israel, An Exhibition arranged to the Museum's 20th Anniversary, Tel Aviv Museum.

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