Biography

Ardyn was born in 1956, educated at Haberdasher's Askes, London and won a scholarship to study English at Pembroke College, Cambridge.

He has painted and exhibited from childhood and his first exhibition was in 1965 at the age of 9 followed by a second in 1968. Since then he has exhibited nationally and internationally and won a number of awards.

A versatile artist, equally at home with oils, silkscreen printing or illuminated artwork, he has also just completed a commission for an 8' high statue cast in bronze for the Armoured Corps Main Memorial Centre in Israel. Ardyn has also collaborated several times with his father, Roman, on commissions for stained glass windows. Their latest commission, completed in March 2004, was 2 stained glass windows for the new Rwandan Genocide Memorial Centre in Kigali.

Solo Exhibitions

1965	Haringey Gallery, London
1968	Haringey Gallery, London
1983	Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel
	Ghetto Fighters' Museum, Israel
1984	Horace Richter Gallery, Israel
1989	Horace Richter Gallery, Israel
1991	The Gallery at John Jones, London
1992	Galérie Guigné, Paris
	Lyric Theatre, London
	Horace Richter Gallery, Israel [jointly with Lucian Freud]
	Collège des Jésuits, Nîmes, France
1993	Conseil Regional [ Regional Museum], Montpélier, France
	Centre Languedoc-Rousillon, Barcelona
	Bourg-en-Bresse, France
1999	Kunsthaus Richterswill, Museum für Neue Kunst
	Kfar Saba Municipal Gallery, Israel
	Contemporary Art Gallery, Zurich
	The Redfern Gallery, London
2001	Municipal Museum ‘La Fortezza', Montalcino , Italy
2002	The Horace Richter Gallery, Israel

Awards

1973	Scholarship to Pembroke College, Cambridge [re-awarded 1974]
1976	Derek Rose Memorial Award, Pembroke College, Cambridge
1992	First Prize ‘ Lauréats Wizo,' Paris
1993	Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, France
1998	National Print Exhibition: First Prize: Julian Trevelyan Hon RE Memorial Award
	National Print Exhibition: Gavin Graham Outstanding Printer Award

Public Collections

• The Ghetto Fighters' Museum , Israel
• The Jewish Museum, New York
• The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
• The Magnes Museum, San Francisco
• The Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem
• The Weitzmann Institute of Science
• The Jerusalem Foundation
• Nîmes Municipal Collection
• Bank Leumi, Israel
• The Halifax Building Society, UK
• The Bank of England
• Seinan Gakunin Museum, Japan
• The British Foreign Office
• Bank Brussels Lambert (Basel and Bruxelles)
• Swissca, Zurich
• The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
• The British Library, London
• The New York Public Library

Projects

1991	Ma'agan Michael, Israel. Shoah Memorial.
1985-95	With Roman Halter: Yad LaYeled, at the Ghetto Fighters' Museum, Israel: 16 stained-glass windows and the creation of the original design on which Yad LaYeled is based.
2002-03	Your Fellow Man Bronze sculpture, Yad LaShirion, Latrun, Israel.
2003-04	The Genocide Memorial windows for the Gisozi Genocide Memorial Centre, Kigali, Rwanda.

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