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Y i r m i P i n k u s / C u r r i c u l u m V i t a e

First and last name: Yirmi Waldmann Pinkus Born: , 15th of July 1966 Family status: B + 1 Address: 68 Bilu St., 6425615 Tel: +972-3-6293964 Email address: [email protected]

Yirmi Pinkus is an Israeli illustrator, author and associate professor at the Shenkar College of Art, Engineering and Design in Israel. Pinkus is one of the founders of the alternative group Actus (founded in 1996), that has won international acclaim and was listed in 2007 by the American ID design magazine as one of the most prominent contemporary design groups. On 2000 he founded the program for illustration studies at the Shenkar College, Israel, and served as the director of the program for 11 years.

In 2008 Pinkus's illustrated novel entitled Professor Fabrikant’s Historical Cabaret was published. The book was awarded the Sapir Prize for Debut Literature, and was translated into Italian and published by Cargo Publishing, and into French by Grasset Publishing. In 2010 he was awarded the Israeli Prime Minister's Award for his achievements as an author of fiction and graphic novellas. In 2011, an exhibition of Pinkus' work was shown at the Cartoonmuseum (Basel ). His comics book Mr. Fibber the Storyteller, based on stories by Lea Goldberg, won the 2014 Israel Museum Award for Children's Book Illustration.

In 2013, he founded, with Prof. Rutu Modan (Bezalel Academy of Art) Noah Books - an independent, experimental publishing house whose goal is to nurture and foster visual literacy among pre-schoolers. Noah Books focuses on creating comics for children based on classic Israeli texts, and has gained the support of the Ministry of Education. Selecting the texts and their adaptation is a research and exploration process conducted in collaboration - 2 - with researchers and academics in the humanities.

Another goal is to support and cultivate young illustrators, graduates of Israel's design academies. Prof. Pinkus and Prof. Modan guide the creative processes of the selected artists, aiming to develop new visual narratives.

In 2018-19 Pinkus initiated agreements of academic copperation and exchange programns between shenkar college and Burg-Halle University, , and the Accademia di Belle Arti, Bologna, .

Since May 2019 1800 works by Pinkus are digitally catalogued and accessible as part of the Hollis Images Catalog, Harvard University library (USA). https://images.hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explore/ search?query=any,contains,PINKUS&tab=default_tab&search_scope=default_scope&vid=HVD_IMAGES&lang=en_US&offset=0

...... Academic ranking

Associate Professor (6.6.2011) Senior Faculty Member (1.10.2003) Lecturer (31.10.2000)

...... Education

2007 – 2015 Yiddish language studies, Sholem Aleichem House, and Tel-Aviv and Medem Center, Paris 2003 – 2005 Mdes, Middlesex University, UK 1999 – 2002 French language studies, Institut Francais, Tel Aviv 1994 – 1995 German language studies, Goethe Institute, Tel Aviv 1988 – 1992 Bdes (with honors), Bezalel Academy of Art, - 3 -

...... Creative and Artistic Projects since submitting for current academic ranking

2019 Hollis Image Catalog, Harvard University library(USA) digital catalog of over 1800 works by Pinkus, with the cooperation of the Israeli Museum of Comics & Caricature 2019 Member of the design team of the new permanent exhibition Museum of the Jewish People (Beit Hatfutsot), Israel 2019 Mr Fibber Goes to the Moon, comics book for children after Lea Goldberg, Hakibbuz publishers and Noah Books. 2019 Mr Fibber, comics book for children (American edition) publisher: Fantagraphics USA 1997 – 2019 Staff illustrator for the politics supplement, Yedioth newspaper newspaper. 2013 – 2019 Creative co-director, Noah Books 2017 Petty Business, a novel (Syracuse University Press, USA) 2017 Traces 1, publisher: Courage (annual for art and literature) Grasset, France 2017 Bachelors and Widows, novellas (Modan Publishing, Israel) 2010 – 2016 Staff illustrator for the Literary Supplement Yedioth newspaper 2013 Mr. Fibber the Storyteller, comics adaptation for children of poems by Leah Goldberg (Noah Books, Israel) 2013 Founding of Noah Books – the first Israeli comics publishing house for pre-schoolers, aimed at promoting visual literacy 2013 Le Grand Cabaret du Professeur Fabrikant illustrated novel (French edition, Editions Grasset, France) 2013 Co-Founder of Noah Books - an experimental publishing house which promotes and publishes picture books by young alumni of design schools in Israel 2012 Petty Business, a novel dealinig with the fashion industry in Israel of the eighties (Am Oved Publishing, Israel) 2012 I was a Tourist in Israel, curator of an exhibition of the works of Israeli-German caroonist Friedel Stern, Israel Comics Museum - 4 -

2011 Il folle Cabaret del Professor Fabriknat, illustrated novel (Italian edition, L'ancora Publishing, Italy) 2010 TLV-Berlin, ein Reiesebuch, anthology of documentary graphic stories (Avant Verlag, Berlin)

...... Creative and Artistic Projects prior to receipt of current academic ranking

2009 How to Love, anthology of graphic stories (Modan Publishing) 2008 The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish, illustrated book based on a story by A. S. Pushkin, (Achuzat Bait Publishing) 2008 Professor Fabrikant’s Historical Cabaret, a novel illustrated by the author (Am Oved Publishing) 2007 How to Love (graphic literatyre anthology, Actus Publishing) 2005 Cargo, anthology of graphic ducumentary stories (Avant Publishing, Berlin) 2004 Dead Herring Comics, anthology (Actus Publishing) 2003 There Once Was a Frog comics for children (Modan Publishing) 2002-2015 Editor of Ritmos classical music magazine (publisher: the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra) 2002 Happy End, comics anthology, english edition (Actus Publishing) 2002 Happy End, comics anthology, Hebrew edition (Modan Publishing, Israel) 2001 Victor, comics anthology (Modan Publishing, israel) 2001 Crumpet Ladies, English and French versions (Actus Publishing) 2000 The Sisters D’espard , a graphic novella (Actus Publishing) 1999 Jetlag, graphic stories anthology after stories by Etgar Keret (Actus Publishing) 1998 Observable, graphic novella (Actus Publishing) 1996 Fotofix, graphic novella (Actus Publishing) 1995 The Johns, comics based on a science fiction story by Rogel Alpher (ActusPublishing) - 5 -

1994-1995 Co-editor (with Rutu Modan) of the Mad comics magazine in Hebrew

...... Exhibitions since submitting for current academic ranking

2018 A la découverte de la BD israélienne Bibliothèque Marguerite Yourcenar, Paris, france 2017 CONTAR O MUNDO reportagem em banda desenhada group exhibition, Amadora international Comics Festival, Portugal 2017 Sextant group exhibition, pop up gallery, Jaffa, Israel 2017 Shoah et Bande Dessinée, group exhibition, Musee Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris, France 2016 Animal Collective: nuevas iniciativas en el cómic europeo group exhibition, Centro Centro culture center, Madrid, Spain 2015 Wandering: Journeys in Israeli Graphic Narratives, group exhibition, Princeton University, USA 2014 Israel Museum Illustration Award Exhibition group exhibition, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 2014 Nation of Illustration, group exhibition, the Artists' Union Gallery, Tel Aviv 2014 The Illustrated Version, illustration group exhibition, MUSA Museum, Tel Aviv 2013 Voices & Visions, traveling group exhibition (USA) initiated by the Harold Grinspoon Foundation 2011 Yirmi Pinkus – Drawings Museum Basle, Switzerland

...... Exhibitions prior to receipt of current academic ranking

2009 How to Love, group exhibition (Actus Group), Israeli Museum of Comics and , - 6 -

2008 Superhelden en Sjlemielen, group exhibition, Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam 2007 De Superman au Chat du Rabbin, group exhibition, Museum of Jewish Art and History, Paris 2007 Guttmann, Biederman, Pinkus / Three Portrait Artists, Gutmann Museum, Tel Aviv 2006 Actus ABC, group exhibition, Fumetto Comics festival, Lucerne Switzerland 2005 Design Prize Winners exhibition, group exhibition, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 2005 Cargo, group exhibition funded by the German Government’s Central Culture Fund.The exhibition was displayed at Haus Schwarzenberg Berlin and Bialik Center, Tel Aviv 2002 Actus Box, group comics exhibition, Haarlem Comics Festival, the Netherlands 2002 Illustrated Stories, solo exhibition Festivital Design conference, Tel Aviv 2002 Actus Box, group exhibition, Bronfman Center Gallery, Manhattan, NY USA 1999 Actus Tragicus, comics exhibition International Comic Festival, Athens Greece 1999 Jetlag, group comics exhibition, Nechama Gallery, Tel Aviv 1998 Actus Tragicus - from Israel, Fumetto comics festival, Lucerne Switzerland 1998 Actus Tragicus, group comics exhibition, Erlangen Comics Festival, Germany 1995 Limits of Good Taste, group illustration exhibition, Tivon Gallery, Tivon 1993 Bialik 93, group exhibition, Bialik House, Tel Aviv 1993 Pools of Light, group exhibition, Navon Gallery, Neve Ilan - 7 -

...... Awards and Scholarships since submitting for current academic ranking

2019 Excellence in Design Award awarded by the Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture 2019 Final nomination (picture books catgory), Shenzan Global Design award, China, for Noah Books project. 2018 Nomination (Sapir Literary Prize) for the book “Bachelors and Widows” (fiction) 2014 Israel Museum award for the best illustrated children's book for ''Mr. Fibber the Storyteller'' 2014 “Le Grand cabaret du Professeur Fabrikant” shortlisted for the Prix Ulysse, France 2013 Final nomination (Sapir Literary Prize) for the novel “Petty Business” 2010 Prime Minister award for Literature and graphic novellas, Israel 2010 Israel Museum award for illustrated children books for ''The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish''

...... Awards and Scholarships prior to receipt of current academic ranking

2009 Sapir Literary Prize for Debut Literature for the illustrated novel “Professor Fabrikant’s Historical Cabaret” 2009 Guest artist, Cité International des Arts, Paris France 2005 Final nomination, the Ignatz award for alternative comics, USA, for Dead Herring Comics (Best Anthology of the Year) (with Actus artists, edited by Yirmi Pinkus) 2004 Excellence in Design Award awarded by the Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture 2000 Finalist for the Eisner award USA (best short comics story category) for Margolis (with author Etgar Keret) 1999 Advertisers Association Award for outstanding illustration 1995 Sharett Fund Scholarship (The Israel - America Cultural Fund) - 8 -

1994 Sharett Fund Scholarship (The Israel - America Cultural Fund) 1992 Ben Yossef Prize for Design and Illustration, Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem

...... Teaching, academic positions and public activities since submitting for current academic ranking

2019 Ma des thesis project instructor, Shenkar college 2019 Picture Book Workshop (Ba. illustration), HAW university, Hamburg, Germany 2019 Master class (Ma. illustration), Accademia Belle Arti, Bologna, Italy 2018-2019 Consultant, Harold Grinspoon Foundation for promoting reading and Jewish education among younger children. 2019 surveyor of Ma.D studies in Israeli Academies, appointed by the Council for Higher Education, Israel 2018 Initiator of crush course [Experimental Book Design] for Shenkar students, with Prof. Bernd Mölck-Tassel, HAW Hamburg 2018 Award of excellence in academic activity (2016-7), Shenkar 2018 Initiator of academic coperation agreement between Shenkar College and Burg Halle University of Art and Design, Germany 2018 Paricipant:Teaching design, workshop guided by Prof. Anne Boddington, Kingston School of art, UK 2018 Curator of Shenkar students' exhibition, the Bologna International Children Books Fair, Italy, along the folloeinh participting schools: ENSAD Paris, Escola Massana, Barcelona, HAW Hamburg, Academia ce Belle Arti, Bologna. 2017 Member of advisory forum for Mdes. students, Visual Communication dept., Burg Halle University of Art and Design, Germany - 9 -

2107 Das illustrierte Sachbuch workshop (in collaboration with Prof. Bernd Mölck-Tassel), HAW Hamburg 2017 Guest Professor (spring semester), UDK berlin, germany 2017 Head of the advisory committee for the promotion of professors Bezalel Academy, Israel 2017 Award of excellence in academic activity (2015-6), Shenkar 2016 Initiator and Coordinator of Research of Wander 2 / contemporary interpretations of research in design, a conference at Mdes. program, Shenkar College 2012-2016 Faculty member, Program of Master Degree in Design (Mdes.), Shenkar College 2014-2016 Member of the Board Sholem Aleichem Center for Yiddish Culture 2015 Member of the final project assesment board, Program of Master Degree in Design (Mdes.), Shankar College 2015 Illustration / from Visual Translation to individual syntax, a new course focusing on the contemporary likeage between text and image, Department of visual communication, Shenkar College, Israel. 2015 Initiator and Coordinator of Research of Wander 1 / contemporary interpretations of research in design, a conference at Mdes. program, Shenkar College 2015 Re-Illustrating Multimodal Texts as Translation an academic essay about the artwork of Yirmi Pinkus by Prof. R. Weissbrod (Bar Illan University) and Dr. A. Kahn published by New Readings, UK ת(Hadassa College, Israel) 2014-2015 Member of the professional advisory committee, Bezalel Academy, Israel 2014-2015 Chairman of the committee for reform in 4th year studies, Department of Visual Communication, Shenkar College 2014 Chairman of the professional advisory committee (Design), Shenkae College 2013-2014 Member of the Board of the Academic Senior Faculty Organization, Shenkar College - 10 -

2013 Amour Sans Paroles comics workshop, Centre Pompidou, France 2013 Member of the academic advisory committee (design) National Council for Higher Education, Israel 2012 Human body and anatomical drawing for graduate students of design, an original new course, Shenkar College 2011 Fashion Illustration and personal style a new interdisciplinary course, Department of Fashion Design, Shenkar College 2011 Final Candidate for the post of co-head of MA program (illustration and animation), HSLU, Lucerne, Switzerland

...... Teaching, academic positions and public activities prior to receipt of current academic ranking

2000-20011 Head of Illustration Studies and senior lecturer Shenkar College 2008-2011 Chairman of the advisory council to the Selection Committee, Shenkar College 2008 Member of the Selection Committee, Wizo College of Design 2008 Artist's class, Hamburg University of Applied Arts (HAW), Germany 2000-20011 Head of Illustration Studies and senior lecturer Shenkar College 2006 Artist’s class, Hochschule der Gestaltung, Lucerne Switzerland 1998-2004 Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem, lecturer on the Basics of Visual Communications 1999-2000 Wizo Haifa College of Design instructor of final illustration projects 1998-2003 Head of Illustration Studies Vital Center for Design Studies, Tel Aviv - 11 -

1997-2003 Lecturer at the Vital Center for Design Studies, Tel Aviv 1996 Guest illustration lecturer, Hochschule der Kunste Berlin, Germany

...... Selected lectures since submitting for current academic ranking

2018 Les avant-gardes de la BD en France et en Israel roundtable, Maison de la Poésie, Paris, France 2017 Contemporary Comics for children in Israel HAW Hamburg, Germny, and Burg Halle university, Germany 2015 The Noah Books Project, UDK Berlin, Germany 2015 The Noah Books Project MA studies (Children Book Illustration), Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University, UK 2015 Crimson Words / writing prose as a visual process Middle Eastern and Asian Studies, Cambridge University, UK 2014 Mr. Fibber and the Alternative Comics Panel order and disorder in the process of creating comics Shenkar Forum of Visual Culture, Israel 2013 The Actus Comics Project Petit Bain Center for alternative culture, Paris, France 2013 Rutu Modan and Yirmi Pinkus about graphic stories Centre Pompidou, Paris, France 2013 Taniguchi in light of Walter Benjamin's writing Comics Readers asVisual Strollers, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 2012 Crimson Words / writing prose as a visual process Review-Preview conference / the Arts in Israel in the 21st Century, conference, the Hebrew University, the Israel Museum and Adi Foundation 2012 Illustrated Covers of the New Yorker Magazine, 1925-2012, illustration as a reflection of Zeitgeist, Minshar College, Tel Aviv 2011 Summer Morning in Tel Aviv / comics as a lyric medium, Festivaletteratura, Mantua, Italy - 12 -

2011 About Illustrated Portraits, The Commissioned Face, conference, Shenkar Forum for Culture and Society

...... Selected lectures prior to receipt of current academic ranking

2009 Comics und Poesie, Visual Communications Department Universität der Künste, Berlin Germany 2008 Comics Artist as a Poet, Conference by the History and Theory Department at Bezalel Academy of Art 2008 Cargo – Travel book in comics, guest lecture Hamburg University of Applied Arts (HAW), Germany 2008 Personal language and communications in newspaper illustrations, guest lecturer, Wizo Haifa College of Design 2007 Illustration for Newspapers, seminar, Globes Group 2007 Central Issues in Commercial Illustration, seminar for creative directors, sponsored by McCann-Erikson Advertising 2004 Actus Group – Israeli or international comics? Center for Digital Art, Holon 2003 Illustrated Stories / Illustration as a Narrative Tool, Israeli Comics Festival, Tel Aviv Cinematheque 2002 Happy End / Personal and Local Identity in Comics, Ben Gurion University 2002 Illustrated Stories / Illustration as a Narrative Tool, Festivital Design Festival, Tel Aviv 2002 Personal Portfolio lecture, Haarlem Comics Festival, the Netherlands 1998 Comics and Voyeurism, guest lecturer, UCON University, Connecticut USA 1998 Process in Comics Creation, Graduate Department for Graphic Design, School of visual arts, NYC, USA 1998 Actus Tragicus – Alternative Israeli comics, Comics Festival, Erlangen Germany - 13 -

...... Conferences since submitting for current academic ranking

2018 Bologna International Children's Book Fair, Italy 2016 Salon du Livre de Paris, France (an official guest of the salon) 2015 The Jewish Book Week, London, UK (an official guest of the conference) 2014 Poeticon conference of culture studies, Ashdod Museum, Israel 2014 Foire du Livre, Brusseles, Belgium (an official guest of the festival) 2014 Visual Culture between Resistance and Obedience Shenkar Forum, Israel 2013 Review-Preview; the Arts in Israel at the 21th Century, a conference initiated by The Hebrew university, the Israel Museum (Jerusalem) and the Adi Foundation 2011 Festivaletteratura, guest artist of the Mantua literature festival, Italy 2011 The Commissioned Face, organizer of an international conference, the Shenkar Forum for Culture and Society, Israel 2010 Comics, Identity and Politics in Europe and Israel, Chairman of session, Ben Gurion University and the Israeli Comics Museum

...... Conferences prior to receipt of current academic ranking

2009 International Illustrators Workshop Berlin, Germany, guest of the Deutsch-Israelisches Zukunftsforum foundation 2009 Illustration and style in the eyes of history, participant in a public discussion to honor Danny Kerman’s upon his receipt of an honorary title at the Israeli Comics and Festival 2009 Guest of the Fumetto Alternative Comics festival, Switzerland - 14 -

2008 Guest of the Comicon Comics Conference, California USA 2008 Between the personal and the political / Local Comics and Caricature, lecturer at a Conference by the History and Theory Department at BezalelAcademy of Art 2008 Participant at the International Comics Festival, Angoulême France 2007 Holon International, speaker at a conference held in honor of the opening of the Israeli Museum of Comics and Animation 2006 Symposium: Contemporary Independent Comics, Fumetto Alternative Comics festival, Lucerne, Switzerland 2005 Center and Periphery in Israeli Culture, Chairman of session, Shenkar College 2004 Participant at the International Comics Festival, Angoulême, France 2002 Guest at the International Comics Festival Haarlem, the Netherlands 2001 Participant at the International Comics Festival, Angoulême France 1999 Participant at the International Comics Festival, Angoulême France 1998 Guest at SPX conference of independent comics, Washington USA 1998 Guest at the Comics Festival, Erlangen Germany 1998 Guest at the Fumetto Comics festival, Lucerne Switzerland 1996 Participant at the International Comics Festival, Angoulême France

...... Additional Work

2019 Deisgner of murals Museum of the Jewish People, Tel aviv, Israel 1997-2019 Staff illustrator for the Political Supplement, Yedioth newspaper 2013-2019 Creative director, Noah Books - 15 -

2017 Visual image designer, Mercedes-Benz website, Germany 2007-2016 Staff illustrator for the Literary Supplement Yedioth newspaper 2007-2009 Staff illustrator for the G Supplement, Globes newspaper 2006 - 2008 Political caricatures columnist, Yedioth newspaper 1994-2006 Cover illustrator and member of the founding staff, Achbar Hair entertainment magazine 2005 Comics, Strapazin magazine, Switzerland 2005 Comics, Guilt & Pleasure, Contemporary Jewish culture magazine, NY 2001 Daily in the cultural supplement of the Frankfurter Allgemeine zeitung 2000 Comics for Top Shelf magazine, USA 1999 Miss April, brand character design for a national cosmetics chain stores 1999 Illustration for a series of telephone call cards for Bezeq 1997-1999 Political comic strip, Teacher Hava, Ha’ir newspaper (in collaboration with Rogel Alper) 1997 Illustration for the American Express catalog 1996 Design and image illustrations for the Electric Corp. 1996 Illustrator, Brigitte magazine, Germany 1992 Comic strip, Krantz Brothers, Monitin monthly 1991 Children’s comic strip in Kulanu weekly

...... Newspaper Articles

2011-2013 Book reviewer, Haaretz newspaper, Israel 2007-2008 Opera reviewer, Yedioth newspaper 1997-2006 Opera reviewer, Ha’ir newspaper 2002-2005 Editor of Ritmos, classical music magazine (published by the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra) 2003-2004 Graphic novels critic, Haaretz literature supplement 2001-2002 Animation and comics reporter, Yes magazine 1996-2001 Yiddish culture reporter, Ha’ir magazine - 16 -

...... Selected Clients

Companies Mercedes-Benz American Express Hapoalim Bank Orange Medie ,Strauss-Elite Yes Satellite broadcasters Museum of the Jewish People [Tel Aviv] Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra Israel Postal Authority Bezeq April chain stores Märchenland Berlin Mishkenot Sha'ananim conference center [Israel] Gesher Theatre [Israel]

Press / Israel Yedioth Aharonot Ha’ir Att Haaretz Massa Aher Rating Group Globes newspaper Panim Magazine for education

Press / International Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany) Finanztest (Germany) Brigitte (Germany) Top Shelf (USA) - 17 -

Guilt and Pleasure (USA) Strapazin (Switzerland) Internazionale Magazine (Italy)

Advertising agencies McCann-Erikson Tamir-Cohen Glickman-Netler-Meizeler Arieli Advertising Adler-Chomsky National advertising agency, israel

Publishers Fantgraphics (USA) Syracuse University Press (USA) Grasset (France) l'Ancora (Italy) Avant Verlag Berlin (Germany) Modan Publishing (Israel) Achuzat Bait Publishing (Israel) Am Oved Publishing (Israel) Poalim Press (Israel) Stripburger (Slovenia)

...... Languages

Hebrew, English, Yiddish and German – high level of proficiency French – basic level of proficiency