MARK PODWAL

BORN

Brooklyn, New York, 1945

EDUCATION

1970 Doctor of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York. 1966 Bachelor of Arts, Queens College, New York.

HONORARY DEGREE

2003 Doctor of Humane Letters Honoris Causa, Hebrew College, Newton Centre, Massachusetts.

DECORATIONS

1996 Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la Republique Francaise 1993 Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la Republique Francaise

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 A Collage of Customs, Cincinnati Skirball Museum, Cincinnati, OH 2021 Kaddish for Dąbrowa Białostocka, Terezin Ghetto Museum, Terezin, Czech Republic (catalogue) 2019 From the Jewish Tradition, Brandys Synagogue, Brandys Nad Labem, Czech Republic Kaddish for Dąbrowa Białostocka, Jewish Museum of Florida, South Miami Beach, FL 2018 Mark Podwal Images, Cesky Krumlov Synagogue, Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic Ten Stars, Jewish Town Hall, Prague, Czech Republic 2017 All This Has Come Upon Us, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA Kaddish for Dąbrowa Białostocka, Great Choral Synagogue of Grodno, Grodno, Belarus Kaddish for Dąbrowa Białostocka, Ludwik Zamenhof Centre, Białystok, Poland Kaddish for Dąbrowa Białostocka, Yiddish Book Center, Amherst, Massachusetts Drawing from the Klutznick Collection, Cincinnati Skirball Museum, Cincinnati, OH Mozart Met Opera Posters, Estates Theater, Prague, Czech Republic 2016 Mozart and Prague, Klementinum Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic Kaddish for Dąbrowa Białostocka, Museum at Eldridge Street, New York, NY Printed Matters, OZ Gallery, New York, NY 2015 All This Has Come Upon Us, Jewish Museum of Florida, South Miami Beach, FL All This Has Come Upon Us, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Jewish Bestiary, Kulturzentrum der IKG, Munich, Germany All This Has Come Upon Us, Embassy of the Czech Republic, London, United Kingdom 2014 All This Has Come Upon Us, Terezin Ghetto Museum, Terezin, Czech Republic (catalogue) All This Has Come Upon Us, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ Old Jewish Town Within Us, Embassy of the Czech Republic, Washington, DC European Days of Jewish Culture and Heritage, Cross Gallery, New Town Hall, Brno, Czech Republic Shamayim Jewish Culture Festival, Zadni Synagogue, Trebic, Czech Republic 2013 From Jerusalem to Prague, Espace Rachi: Centre d’Art et de Culture, Paris, France 2012 Jewish Magic in the Art of Mark Podwal, Jewish Museum in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic Sharing the Journey, Forum Gallery, New York, NY 2011 Old and the New: Mark Podwal’s Textiles for the Altneuschul in Prague, Yeshiva University Museum, Center for Jewish History, New York, NY Doctored Drawings, Smilow Gallery at NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY 2008 Jewish Magic, Forum Gallery, New York, NY 2006 Visual Metaphors, Vratislavsky Palac, Prague, Czech Republic Kabbalistics, Forum Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue) Framed by Words, Yeshiva University Museum, Center for Jewish History, New York, NY 2005 Tales and Illuminations: The Art of Mark Podwal, Yale University, New Haven, CT 2004 A Sweet Year, Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, CA 2003 A Sweet Year, Israel Museum Ruth Youth Wing, Jerusalem, Israel 2001 Of Times and Seasons, Forum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1999 Legends and Visions, Forum Gallery, New York, NY 1998 Bamscapes, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY 1997 Jewish Dreams, Jewish Museum in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic 1996 Jewish Days, Forum Gallery, New York, NY 1995 A Passover Haggadah, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York, NY 1993 A Passover Haggadah, Forum Gallery, New York, NY 1990 Ink and Inkling: Mark Podwal, Master of the True Line, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA traveled to Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA (catalogue) 1986 A Jewish Bestiary, National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA 1982 Sir Isaac and Lady Edith Wolfson Museum, Hechal Shlomo, Jerusalem, Israel 1980 A Book of Hebrew Letters, Jewish Museum, New York, NY 1979 A Book of Hebrew Letters, Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, CA 1977 Freud’s da Vinci, Forum Gallery, New York, NY Observations, Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA, (catalogue) 1974 Drawings by Mark Podwal, Klutznick Museum, Washington, DC 1973 Lamentations, Jewish Museum, New York, NY 1971 The Decline and Fall of the American Empire, Wickersham Gallery, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 The Samaritans: A Biblical People, Museum of the Bible, Washington, DC, (catalogue) 2019 Our Five Senses, Free Library, Philadelphia, PA Kabbalah: The Art of Jewish Mysticism, Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands Relative Relations: The Ties that Bind, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York, NY 2018 Kabbalah, Jüdisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria (catalogue) Artists by Artists: The Artist as Subject, Forum Gallery, New York, NY Jerusalem Between Heaven and Earth, Derfner Judaica Museum, Riverdale, NY (catalogue) 2017 GOLEM! Avatars of a Clay Legend, Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, Paris, France The Arch of Titus—from Jerusalem to Rome, and Back, Yeshiva University Museum, Center for Jewish History, New York, NY Favorite Things: A Holiday Exhibition, Forum Gallery, New York, NY HOME (less), Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York, NY (catalogue) WATERSHED, Jerusalem Biennale 2017, Jerusalem, Israel Treasures from the Collection: A 15 Year Celebration, Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, MA 2016 GOLEM, Jüdisches Museum, Berlin, Germany (catalogue) “Come My Beloved…”—Illustrations for the Song of Songs, Jewish Museum in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic Paint by Numbers, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York, NY (catalogue) American Views, Forum Gallery, New York, NY 2015 EVIL: A Matter of Intent, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York, NY 2014 National September 11 Memorial Museum, New York, NY Gourmet Ghettos: Modern Food Rituals, Magnes Collection, Berkeley, CA 2013 As Subject and Object: Contemporary Book Artists Explore Sacred Hebrew Texts, Museum of Biblical Art, New York, NY The Seventh Day: Revisiting Shabbat, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York, NY (catalogue) Singular Vision, Forum Gallery, New York, NY 2012 Ten Years of Collecting for the Carle, Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, MA The Spectrum of Sexuality, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York, NY (catalogue) Posters as History: Teaching With Primary Sources, Godwin- Ternbach Museum, Queens College, Flushing, NY Five Decades: Art and Artists of Forum Gallery 1962- 2012, Forum Gallery, New York, NY Text and Context, Columbia/Barnard University Hillel, New York, NY 2011 Modern Artists Illustrate Jewish Texts, Yale University, New Haven, CT Peace on Earth: Art Against War, Forum Gallery, New York, NY Vantage Point 2011, Forum Gallery, New York, NY 2010 Monsters and Miracles, Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, CA traveled to Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, MA (catalogue) Illustrating the Hebrew Bible, Duke University, Durham, NC "And you shall tell your son...", Jewish Museum in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic A Stitch in Jewish Time: Provocative Textiles, Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion, New York, NY (catalogue) Seduced by the Sacred, Charter Oak Cultural Center, Hartford, CT 2009 Path of Life: Rabbi Loew, Imperial Stables at Prague Castle, Prague, Czech Republic (catalogue) Summer Selections, Forum Gallery, New York, NY 2008 Art of the Times (Times Four), Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Envisioning Maps, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York, NY 2007 The Fine Art of Drawing: Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Forum Gallery, New York, NY 2006 Deck Your Halls With Art: A Holiday Group Show, Forum Gallery, New York, NY From Haven to Home, Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, CA 2005 Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Forum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Waldsee-1944, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York, NY I Am the Rose: Passover Imagined in the Collections of The New York Public Library, New York Public Library, New York, NY Celebrating the Fine Art of Children’s Book Illustration, Museum of American Illustration, New York, NY 2004 Contemporary Landscapes, Forum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2003 Living Masters! Forbes Galleries, New York, NY Contemporary Works on Paper, Forum Gallery, New York, NY The Art of Aging, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York, NY (catalogue) A Holiday Celebration, Forum Gallery, New York, NY 2002 Noah’s Art: Animals in Prints and Drawings, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA Visually Speaking, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 2001 Not For Myself Alone, Princeton University Library, Princeton, NJ Small Worlds, Mizel Arts Center, Denver, CO A World of Story, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ The Jewish Holidays, Forum Gallery, New York, NY Gallery Roster, Forum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2000 Drawings by 20th Century & Contemporary Masters, Forum Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue) Celebrating the Fine Art of Children’s Book Illustration, Museum of American Illustration, New York, NY Picture This! Children’s Book Illustrations, National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA 1999 Visual Artists Salute Harvey Lichtenstein, Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY Celebrating the Fine Art of Children’s Book Illustration, Museum of American Illustration, New York, NY 1998 Recent Acquisitions, Princeton University Library, Princeton, NJ 1997 A Jewish Holiday Celebration, Forum Gallery, New York, NY 1996 New Beginnings, Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, CA Collector’s Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR Tikvah: Perspectives on Human Rights, Dodd Research Center, Storrs, CT (catalogue) Harrison Celebrates Art, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, NY Where is God? Jewish Children’s Book Illustrations, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York, NY 1993 Collecting for the 21st Century: Recent Acquisitions, Jewish Museum, New York, NY 1988 Golem: Danger, Deliverance and Art, Jewish Museum, New York, NY (catalogue) 1986 Liberty: The French-American Statue in Art and History, New York Public Library, New York, NY traveled to the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Palais du Louvre, Paris (catalogue) The Jewish Illustrated Book, Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA (catalogue) 1984 The Fantastic Voyage, Yeshiva University Museum, New York, NY 1983 Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, NY 1982 Warheads: Cartoonists for a Nuclear Freeze, Sindin Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue) 1979 See and Sanctify: Exploring Jewish Symbols, Yeshiva University Museum, New York, NY (catalogue) 1976 The Image of America in Cartoon and Caricature, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX traveled to Fort Wayne Public Library, Fort Wayne, TX (catalogue) VI Biennale International de l'Affiche, Warsaw, Poland (catalogue) 1975 Art in the Judaic Tradition, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC 1974 Art of the Times, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Palais du Louvre, Paris traveled to the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux (catalogue) 1971 Artists Against the War, Society of Illustrators, New York, NY

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Germany Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France Bibliotheca Rosenthalis, Amsterdam, Netherlands Bodleian Library, Oxford, United Kingdom British Library, London, United Kingdom Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles, CA Cincinnati Skirball Museum, Cincinnati, OH Columbia University, New York, NY Congregation Agudas Achim, Austin, TX Czech National Library, Klementinum, Prague, Czech Republic Duke University, Durham, NC Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, MA Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, Flushing, NY Haifa Museum of Modern Art, Haifa, Israel Hebrew College, Newton Centre, MA Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Museum, New York, NY Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, Skokie, IL Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Jewish Museum, New York, NY Jewish Museum in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic Jewish Museum of Florida, Miami, FL Jewish Theological Seminary Library, New York, NY Judaica Museum of the Hebrew Home for the Aged, Riverdale, NY Jüdisches Museum, Berlin, Germany Jüdisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria Judiska Museet in Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden Kent State University, Kent, OH Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA Library of Congress, Washington, DC Magnes Collection, University of California, Berkeley, CA Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris, France Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA Museo Sefardi, Toledo, Spain Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY National Gallery in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA National September 11 Memorial Museum, New York, NY New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA New-York Historical Society, New York, NY New York Public Library, New York, NY Northeast Children's Literature Collection, Storrs, CT Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Old Synagogue Museum, Erfurt, Germany Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation, Salzburg, Austria Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, CA Stanford University, Stanford, CA Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, NY Temple Emanu-El, New York, NY Temple University, Philadelphia, PA United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada University of Vermont, Burlington, VT Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel Yale University, New Haven, CT Vatican Pontificia Università Urbaniana, Vatican City, Italy Yeshiva University Museum, New York, NY

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York, NY Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

BOOKS BY THE ARTIST

Kaddish for Dąbrowa Białostocka, Amherst: Yiddish Book Center, 2018 Reimagined: 45 Years of Jewish Art. New York: Glitterati Inc., 2016. Jüdisches Bestiarium. Berlin: Hentrich & Hentrich, 2015. Built by Angels. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. Doctored Drawings. New York: Bellevue Literary Press, 2007. Jerusalem Sky. New York: Random House, 2005. A Sweet Year. New York: Random House, 2003. The Menorah Story. New York: Greenwillow Books, 1998. Golem: A Giant Made of Mud. New York: Greenwillow Books, 1995. The Book of Tens. New York: Greenwillow Books, 1994. A Jewish Bestiary. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 1985. Leonardo di Freud. Milan: Sperling and Kupfer Editori, 1982. A Book of Hebrew Letters. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 1978. The Decline and Fall of the American Empire. New York: Darien House, 1971.

SELECTED ILLUSTRATED BOOKS

Mishkan HaNefesh for Youth. New York: CCAR Press, 2017. Middleburgh, Charles and Andrew Goldstein. A Jewish Book of Comfort. Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2014. Mishkan T’filah for Youth. New York: CCAR Press, 2014. Yoffie, Alan S. Sharing the Journey: The Haggadah for the Contemporary Family. New York: CCAR Press, 2012. Bloom, Harold. Fallen Angels. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. Prose, Francine. The Demons’ Mistake: A Story from Chelm. New York: Greenwillow Books, 2000. Wiesel, Elie. King Solomon and His Magic Ring. New York: Greenwillow Books, 1999. Sobel, Ileene Smith. Moses and the Angels. Introduction by Elie Wiesel. New York: Delacorte Press, 1999. Wiesel, Elie. Le Golem: Légende d'une légende. Paris: Bibliophane/Editions du Rocher, 1998. Prose, Francine. You Never Know: A Legend of the Lamed-vavniks. New York: Greenwillow Books, 1998. Prose, Francine. The Angel's Mistake: Stories of Chelm. New York: Greenwillow Books, 1997. Prose, Francine. Dybbuk: A Story Made in Heaven. New York: Greenwillow Books,1996. Klagsbrun, Francine. Jewish Days. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996. Wiesel, Elie. A Passover Haggadah. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993. Wiesel, Elie. Six Days of Destruction. Mahwah: Paulist Press, 1988. The Elie Wiesel Collection. Paris: The Bibliophile Library, 1985-1988. (Fourteen volumes) Schwartz, Howard. The Captive Soul of the Messiah. New York: Schocken Books, 1983. Klagsbrun, Francine. Voices of Wisdom. New York: Pantheon, 1979. The Book of Lamentations. New York: The National Council on Art in Jewish Life, 1974. Let My People Go: A Haggadah. Introduction by Theodore Bikel. Foreword by Abba Eban. New York: MacMillan, 1972.

SOLO EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

All this has come upon us… Terezin: Terezin Memorial, 2014. Carlebach, Elisheva. Jewish Magic in the Art of Mark Podwal. Prague: Jewish Museum, 2012. Kabbalistics. New York: Forum Gallery, 2006. Wiesel, Elie. Mark Podwal: Jewish Dreams. Prague: Jewish Museum, 1997. Ozick, Cynthia. Ink and Inkling: Mark Podwal Master of the True Line. South Hadley: Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, 1990. Observations. Berkeley: Judah L. Magnes Museum, 1977.

ARCHIVAL MATERIAL:

Princeton University Library, Princeton, NJ.

AWARDS AND HONORS

2019 Gratias Agit Award, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Czech Republic 2012 Victoria and Albert Museum Print of the Month 2011 Foundation for Jewish Culture Achievement Award 2010 New York University School of Medicine Alumnus Award Medicine in the Humanities 2009 Smithsonian Notable Book for Children 2003 Doctor of Humane Letters Honoris Causa, Hebrew College, Newton Centre, MA 1999 Silver Medal Society of Illustrators Aesop Prize American Folklore Society 1998 National Jewish Book Award Jewish Book Council 1996 Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la Republique Francaise 1993 Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la Republique Francaise 1989 The Society of Newspaper Design Award of Excellence

SELECTED PROJECTS

2018 Czech National Theater boxed set of ten postcards Metropolitan Opera La Clemenza di Tito limited edition print Metropolitan Museum of Art Hanukkah card Torah ark curtain for Moise Safra Center, New York, NY Jewish Museum, New York, NY Rosh Hashanah card Bohemia Paper, Czech Republic, nine notecards Logo for European Cantor’s Convention, Prague, Czech Republic 2017 Metropolitan Opera Die Zauberflöte limited edition print Metropolitan Opera Hanukkah card Jewish Museum, New York, NY Rosh Hashanah card Torah Mantle for Congregation Agudas Achim, Dell Jewish Community Campus, Austin, TX 2016 Metropolitan Opera Idomeneo limited edition print 2015 Textiles for synagogue Agudas Achim, Brno, Czech Republic Metropolitan Opera Le Nozze di Figaro limited edition print New York Czech Center produces film Mark Podwal’s Mozart and Prague Torah ark curtain for the Rhinebeck Jewish Center, Rhinebeck, NY Institute for Advanced Study print for donors Museum at Eldridge Street limited edition print for honorees 2014 Czech Television documentary film All this has come upon us: Mark Podwal’s Art for Terezin Metropolitan Opera Don Giovanni limited edition print 2013 Metropolitan Opera Cosi fan tutte limited edition print Metropolitan Museum of Art Hanukkah card Dreidel Menorah 2012 Textiles for the Altneuschul in Prague, Czech Republic Czech Television documentary film My Synagogue is in Prague 2011 Metropolitan Opera Nabucco limited edition print Metropolitan Opera Hanukkah card Metropolitan Museum of Art Hanukkah card 2010 The Echo Foundation, Charlotte, NC, The Sandra and Leon Levine Medal for Life 2009 Metropolitan Opera notecards Mozart Fantasies Calendar for The Jewish Museum in Prague, Czech Republic Executive Producer and writer of PBS documentary film House of Life: The Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague, narrated by Claire Bloom Poster for Prague Jewish Community Maharal Conference, Czech Republic 2008 Metropolitan Museum of Art notecard Study for cover of Jerusalem Sky 2007 Jewish Museum, New York, NY Hanukkah card Chronicle Books notecards To Life! 2006 Silkscreen print for The Jewish Museum in Prague Centennial, Czech Republic Metropolitan Museum of Art porcelain plate Jewish Life Cycle 2005 Metropolitan Museum of Art jewelry Glass panels kiln cast by Fusion Glass, London for United Jewish Appeal-Federation headquarters, New York, NY Poster for National Museum of American Jewish History to celebrate 350th Anniversary of the American Jewish Community Torah mantle for Skirball Museum exhibition From Haven to Home 2004 Metropolitan Museum of Art ceramic Podwal Passover Plate 2003 Metropolitan Museum of Art ceramic Zodiac Platter Metropolitan Museum of Art notecard Zodiac Circle 2001 Calendar for The Jewish Museum in Prague, Czech Republic Textiles for Congregation Agudas Achim, Dell Jewish Community Campus, Austin, TX 2000 Jewish Book Month Poster for Jewish Book Council 1998 Brooklyn Academy of Music spring season BAMbill artist Metropolitan Museum of Art notecard Seven-Branched Menorah 1996 Cover art for Itzhak Perlman's compact disc Live In the Fiddler's House Torah mantles for Temple Emanu-El, New York, NY 1995 Torah ark tapestry woven in France by Pinton Tapisserie d'Aubusson for Temple Emanu-El, New York, NY Logo for international conference The Future of Hope, Tokyo and Hiroshima, Japan 1994 Illustrator and creative consultant for television video A Passover Seder Presented by Elie Wiesel 1985 United States Mint Congressional Gold Medal presented by President Ronald Reagan to Elie Wiesel 1981 Stage backdrop for Simon and Garfunkel concert in Israel