1949 Born Melbourne

1967-8 Studied Architecture, University of Melbourne

1969-72 Studied Painting, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, obtaining Associateship Diploma & Fellowship Diploma

1972 Awarded Elaine Targett Drawing prize, Hawthorn City Art Gallery

1975 Awarded Standard Grant, Visual Arts Board of Australia

1975-6 Travelled Italy, Spain, U.K., & Europe

1977 Commissioned Member Print, Print Council of Australia

1981 Travelled Indonesia (Java & Bali), Singapore, Hong Kong & Macau

1984 Travelled Japan

1990 Moved studio to Cowes, Phillip Island, Victoria

1995 Commissioned to create two designs for a mosaic floor at the International Terminal at Melbourne’s Tullamarine Airport

1974 Ewing Gallery, Melbourne University, Melbourne

1975 Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne

1977 Avant Gallery, Melbourne

1978/79 Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Melbourne

1978 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney

1980 Macquarie Galleries – limited edition books

1983 The Painters Gallery, Sydney

1985/87 Powell Street Graphics, Melbourne

1986/88/90 Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne

1989 Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney

1992 Roar 2 Studios, Melbourne. COLOUR & LIFE – a personal fusion

1994/96/98/2000 Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne

2000 Chrysalis Publishing, Melbourne – MONOPRINTS

2001 Vanessa Wood Fine Art, Sydney – Nothing but Blue Skies Official artist for SIDS

2003 Jewish Museum of Australia – Gross Gallery, Melbourne

2009 the blue penguin gallery, Phillip Island – RECENT PAINTINGS

2015 Open Studio weekend

2017 Tacit Contemporary – Musical Rhythms & Island Magic

2018 Tacit Galleries – The Swan & the Seagull

Joint exhibitions

1979 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney – with Victor Rubin

1979 Highlander Lane studio, Melbourne – with John Dent

1981 De Carle Lane studio, Brunswick, Melbourne – with Jennifer Plunkett

1983 Elizabeth Street studio, North Melbourne – with Jennifer Plunkett

1991 Qdos Gallery, Lorne, Victoria – with Graeme Peebles

2002 The blue penguin gallery, Phillip Island – RECENT PAINTINGS - with Jennifer Plunkett

2003 The blue penguin gallery, Phillip Island – RECENT PAINTINGS - with Jennifer Plunkett

2007 The blue penguin gallery, Phillip Island – SUMMER EXHIBITION – with Jennifer Plunkett

2008 The blue penguin gallery, Phillip Island – IMAGES OF JAPAN – with Jennifer Plunkett

2012 The blue penguin gallery, Phillip Island – chromatic fantasies – with Jennifer Plunkett

Selected group exhibitions

1977 Mornington Peninsula Drawing Prize, Victoria

1977 “Pioneer” Art Award, Swan Hill, Victoria

1977 “Genre Painting 77”, Stuart Gerstman Galleries

1978 “Corio Prize”, Geelong Art Gallery

1978 “Blake Prize” for religious painting. Sydney

1978 “Prints & Drawings” Melbourne University Gallery travelling show

1979 “Drawing 79”, Stuart Gerstman Galleries

1979 Group Show, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney

1979 Orange Festival of Arts, NSW

1979 “Art in Worship”, St.Paul’s Anglican Church, Ringwood

1982 “Directions Now”, Mitchelton Print Exhibition, touring Benalla Art Gallery , Shepparton

1982 Arts Centre, Mitchelton Winery, Nagambie & Monash University Gallery

1985 Victorian Print Workshop PROOFS, McClelland Gallery, Langwarren

1985 New Works – a gallery survey, Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne

1986 Drawing survey 1, Powell Street Graphics

1986 Oz drawing now , Holdsworth Contemporary Galleries, Sydney

1988/89 New Work – Powell Street Gallery

1990 It all starts here Contemporary Drawing, Powell Street Gallery

1991 A positive view to 1991 – Jan Martin Lyttleton Gallery

1994 Chrysalis Publishing – Exhibition 1993-94. Melbourne

1994 Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne

1994 Fremantle Print Award 1994, Arts Centre, W.A.

1995 International Works on Paper Fair, Mitchell Galleries, State Library of NSW

1996 Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building,Melbourne

1996 A Special Collection – Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne

1997 SCECGS Redlands Foundation Art Prize, Sydney

1998 Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize,Brisbane (by invitation)

1998 Sixth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne

1999 We are Australian – The George Adams Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne & touring Australia

2000 Celebrating the exquisite corpse – Bendigo Art Gallery travelling exhibition

2001 ASAP Artists Supporting Animal Preservation – Vanessa Woof Fine Art, Sydney

2006 Chrysalis Publishing – Art’s a great gift

Public collections

• Australian National Gallery, Canberra

• Parliament House, Canberra

• National Gallery of Victoria

• NSW State Library

• Melbourne University Gallery

• Ararat Gallery, Victoria

• Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania

• Ministry for the Arts

• Print Council of Australia

• Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, Victoria

• Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

• Vilnius University Library, Vilnius, Lithuania

• Wagga Wagga Art Gallery

• Arnold Bloch Leibler

• Council of Adult Education

• Murdoch Collection

• Federal Airports Corporation

• Leeuwin Estate

Reviews, articles and publications

Encyclopedia of Australian of Australian Art, Allan McCulloch, published Hutchinson, Melbourne

McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art. published The Miegunyah Press 2006

Artists & Galleries of Australia & New Zealand. 1980, Max Germaine, Landsdowne Editions, Melbourne

Artists & Galleries of Australia. 1984. Max Germaine, Melbourne

Robert Lindsay, Australian painters – Dent & Gurvich. National Gallery of Victoria Society Bulletin. December 1979.

Arthur McIntyre, Travel and Mahler keep Gurvich sane. The Age, September 23, 1985

Rafael Gurvich Nothing But Blue Skies published Snapping Turtle Books, 1998

Gurvich creates his own visual music. Arthur McIntyre. Nothing But Blue Skies. published 1988

Reflections on a Journey. Rafael Gurvich. Nothing But Blue Skies published 1988

GALLERY – National Gallery Society of Victoria. November 1988. From Metamorphosis to Moments of magic: The works of Rafael Gurvich

Responding to personal emotion . Paulyne Pogorelske. The Australian Jewish News. January 6, 1989

Lyrical whimsy in Melbourne artist’s work. Sue Saxon. The Australian Jewish Times. March 17, 1989

Directory 1988 – Australian Artists Producing Prints. Print Council of Australia

Gurvich extracts joy from pain . Arthur McIntyre. The Age. Monday 8 . 1989

Nothing but blue skies. Adrian Montana. Interacta #3. 1989

European colours on Australian landscape. Susie Ashkenazi. The Australain Jewish News. 24/8/1990

Gurvich celebrates life. Susie Ashkenazi. The Australian Jewish News. 13/5/1994

A positive affirmation of life – paintings by Rafael Gurvich. Susie Ashkenazi. Jewish Arts Network. Bulletin #1

June 1994.

The Encyclopedia of Australian Art . Alan & Susan McCulloch. Published Allen & Unwin.1994

Gurvich’s brilliantly coloured canvasses. Susie Ashkenazi. The Australian Jewish News. 15/3/1996

Art & airports. Federal Airports Corporation publication. 1996

Australian Printmaking in the 1990’s. Artist Printmakers: 1990 to 1995. by.Dr.Sasha Grishin pub. by Craftsman House. 1996.

The Jewish Museum of Australia Mask Auction catalogue 1998

We are Australian catalogue 1999

Seaside inspiration David Langsam. The Australian Jewish News. 25/2/2000

Arts & entertainment – visual arts review, Jeff Makin. Herald Sun. March 6. 2000. P.89

The Swan and the Seagull. Exhibition catalogue essay. Rafael Gurvich 2018

Interviews

1978 Radio 3RRR – with Memory Holloway & Stuart Gerstman

1988 22/8/1988. Channel 10. Melbourne. GOOD MORNING MELBOURNE. With Annette Alison

1989 8 March. Radio 2BL – with John Doyle

1989 14 March. Radio 2ES – with Sophia Hendel

1989 6 April. SBS Television. Fresco.

1996 15 March – SBS Radio – with Ruth Gilmour.

Covers

Book covers

• Applestealers published by Outback Press. 1974

• Food of Fools by Frank Robson. Published by Fontana Paperbacks. 1987

Magazine cover

• Generation - volume 5, #3. December 1995

Catalogue cover

• The Jewish Festival of the Arts. March 1993

Commissions

1977 Member Print, Print Council of Australia

1995 Two designs for a mosaic floor at Tullamarine Airport, International terminal , Melbourne