Contemporary Art

Itzchak Tarkay was born in Subotica, on the Yugoslav-Hungarian border. When he was only nine years old, Tarkay was sent to the Mathausen concentration camp by the Nazis. After the war, he returned home and developed an interest in art, and while still at school in Subotica, he won a prize for "excellence in painting."

In 1949, his family emigrated to Israel where they stayed at a transit camp for new arrivals at Beer Ya'akov. The next two years were spent in a Kibbutz.
In 1951, He received a scholarship to the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem, where he studied under the artist Schwartzman until he had to mobilize with the Israeli army. When Tarkay returned to Tel Aviv, the enrolled in the Avni Institute of Art where he subsequently graduated in 1956. Some of his instructors included Mokady, Janko, Schtreichman and Sematsky.


His one-man shows have been extensive in Israel, the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan and the United States. His works are found in both public and private collections across the globe. ...

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