How Beautiful the Nights XXXVI, 2008

Larry Abramson (b. 1954, South Africa, immigrated to Israel 1961) is an artist who has exhibited extensively in Israel and abroad, with one-person exhibitions at Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, Venice Biennale, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Kibbutz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Haifa Museum of art, Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv and New York, Circle 1 Gallery, Berlin (2014), Jerusalem Print Workshop, and Volta NY, New York.

His work is in the collections of the Israel Museum, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabruek, and the British Museum, London, and he has received many prizes and awards, among them the Kolliner Award (Israel Museum, 1979), Jacques O'Hana Award (Tel Aviv Museum, 1991), Pundik Prize for Israeli Art (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2007) and Sandberg Award (Israel Museum, 2022).

Over the past 30 years he has participated in many initiatives in support of peaceful and equal coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians. Abramson taught at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem for 25 years. He has also been Visiting Professor at the University of California, San Diego, the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg, and is currently Professor of Art at the Multidisciplinary Art School at Shenkar College, Ramat Gan, where he was Head of the School (2013-2016).

An anthology of his writings, titled "The Painter is a Spy", was published in 2018 by the Kibbutz Meuhad Publishing House, Tel Aviv (Hebrew).