Aharon April

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Aharon April is a former Russian artist and contemporary Israeli artist. Born in Lithuania in 1932. April's works are in the major public and private collections in Europe, Russia and United States. 48 of April's works are exhibited in various museums around the world.
April was born in Vilkaviškis, Lithuania in 1932 to a Jewish family. Aprils' family was exiled to Siberia in 1941, where he grew up and got his first impressions of the bleak color emanating from the northern land. In 1948, he managed to enter the Moscow Art School in Memory of 1905, from where he had to return to Siberia after the Soviet authorities had launched an anti-Semitic campaign known as “The Doctors’ Plot.” April graduated from an art school in the city of Yakutsk. He pursued his interest in history by attending lectures at a local pedagogical institute. An opportunity to study in Moscow arose after the death of Stalin and in 1960, April graduated from the Surikov Academy of Fine Arts. In 1972 April immigrated to Israel where he still lives.

After his graduation from the Surikov Academy of Fine Arts April took part in many national and international exhibitions. April’s first solo exhibition “Behind the Seven Seas” took place at Mo...

Moscow "1905" Art School
1954-60 Surikoff Art Academy (Moscow

April held many Regular personal exhibitions in Israel,North America, Germany, Switzerland, France and Russia.

1958-72 Exhibitions in USSR (two personal exhibitions in Moscow) as well as outside its frontiers.

1975-2001 Regular personal exhibitions in Israel, North America, Germany, Switzerland, France, Russia.

2002 Exhibited in Moscow Museum of Modern Art, "After 30 Years"

2009 Exhibited in State Tretyakov Gallery - Retrospective

2014 Exhibition "Unconscious reality", Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA)