Kosso Eloul was born in Russia in 1920, but relocated often during his lifetime. His artistic training began at the Bezalel Academy of Arts in Jerusalem and continued in Chicago where he studied at both the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago School of Design, from 1938 to 1943. After being drafted to the United States navy in 1944–45, Eloul returned to Palestine where he fought in the 1948 Arab–Israeli war before relocating to Israel and becoming a founding member of the Israeli ‘New Horizons’ artist movement.
He represented Israel at the Venice Biennale in 1958, and was commissioned to create a sculpture for the Jewish National Memorial Mountain at Yad Vashem before moving to Canada in 1964. Eloul created the lithographic series Subtleforce at Gemini Ltd in 1966.
Emilie Owens
1920
Born in Mourom, Russia
1924
Family relocates toTel Aviv, Palestine
1938
Graduates from the Bezalel Academy of Arts, Jerusalem
1938-43
Moves to Chicago, United States of America Enrols in the Art Institute of Chicago, where he attends lectures by Frank Lloyd Wright; enrols in Chicago School of Design and studies with Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
1943
Moves to Philadelphia
1944-45
Drafted to the US Navy
1946
Moves to Palestine
1948
Fights in Palestine’s War of Independence Settles in Ramat-Gan, Israel and opens studio Founding member of the Israeli ‘New Horizon’ artist’s movement
1951
Solo exhibition, Tel-Aviv Museum, Israel
1958
Included in exhibitions, The 10th anniversary of Israel sculpture, Haifa Museum, Tel Aviv;Venice bienniale, Venice, Italy
1960
Creates sculpture for the Jewish National Memorial Mountain, Yad Vashem, Israel
1962
Included in exhibition, Scultura nella cita: 5th festival dei due mondi, Spolito, Italy Receives honorary membership at the Academia Tibernia, Rome
1963
Guest of the city of Berlin for the International Sculpture Symposium, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin
1964
Moves to Toronto, Canada Included in travelling exhibition, Art Israel, originating at Museum of Modern Art, New York
1965-66
Artist in residence at the University of California, Long Beach
1966
Produces lithographic series, Subtleforce I, II and III, at Gemini GEL, Los Angeles
1967
Work commissioned by the Smithsonian Institutefor the Geneva Peace Conference Art Exhibition, Peace-shalom
1974
Included in exhibition, Aspects of Canadian Art, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York
1976
Awarded Canada Council Senior Art Fellowship
1978
Awarded the Medal of Achievement of Mexico City
1978
Made Honorary Fellow of the Dutch Royal Academy of Fine Art, the Hague
1980
Included in exhibition, The engineer/the sculptor, Mackintosh Art Gallery, London, Ontario
1981
Wins 2nd prize and purchase award at the Hakone Open Air Sculpture Competition, Japan
1992
Sculpture commissioned for the Art Gallery of Algoma, Canada
1994
Sculpture commissioned for the Canadian embassy in Beijing, People’s Republic of China
1995
Kosso Eloul died November 8, 1995 in Toronto, Canada
Tyler Graphics Ltd; revised Emilie Owens, 2007
This chronology provides an overview of selected biographical information, major solo and group exhibitions held within the artist's own lifetime.
