Amikam Toren

Amikam Toren addresses the basic nature of objects and images. He uses the
materiality, function or form of things, re-representing them in a way that is an
improvement or reinvention of their original state. Language, meaning and
interpretation are other central preoccupations in Torens work.
Born in Israel in 1945, Toren has been resident in London since 1968 and has been
the subject of major solo exhibitions at The Serpentine Gallery, 1976, The Institute of
Contemporary Arts, 1979, Chisenhale Gallery and Arnolfini, Bristol, 1991. His work
has been included in the Paris Biennale of 1967, Venice Biennale, 1982, Tyne
International, 1993 and Guangzhou Triennial, 2012. Other recent exhibitions include
the John Moores Painting Prize, 2012, Jerwood Drawing Prize, London, 2011, Royal
Academy of Arts, London, 2010; Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, 2009; and
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2008. In 2012 he participated in
the 4th Guangzhou Triennial and The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery. Toren was
awarded the Bryan Robertson Trust Award in 2012. Toren was subject to his first solo
exhibition in the USA at the Jessica Silverman Gallery in San Francisco, 2013. He
exhibits regularly at the Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv and has been represented by Anthony
Reynolds Gallery in London since 1985.