Born- 1932 in Tel-Aviv. Graduate of St. Martin's School of Art, University of London. in 1954 Studied with the sculptor Rudi Lehmann.

Kadishman is an artist of great power who possesses the rare gift of a unified response, both aesthetic and moral, to the historical world. The realities of this historical experience of Israel have surrounded Kadishman, as a man and as an artist, since his birth. But it is his interweaving of life and art, and his ability to see the universal human meaning within particularities of circumstance, that have made Kadishman an exemplary figure for Israel and for the world at large.

In his youth, between 1950 and 1953, Kadishman worked as a shepherd in Kibbutz Ma'ayan Baruch and Kvuzat Yizre'el. This experience with nature, sheep and shepherding had a significant impact on his later artistic work. The first major appearance of sheep in his work was in the 1978 Venice Biennale, where he presented a flock of colored live sheep as living art. In 1995, he began painting portraits of sheep. These instantly-recognizable sheep portraits soon became his artistic trademark.

Selected solo exhibitions:

1965   Kadishman- Sculptures, Grosvenor Gallery, London
1967   Dunkelman Gallery, Toronto
1968   Goldberg Gallery, Edinburgh
1970   The Forest , Jewish Museum, New York
1975   Canvas Forest, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1975   Menashe Kadishman : Glass, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
1977   Unicorn Gallery, Copenhagen
1979   The Kadishman Connection, Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
1981   Kadishman : Paintings 1979-1981, Tel Aviv Museum, Israel
1981   The Yellow Sheep and the Metal Grove 1956-81, University of Haifa

          Art Gallery, Israel
1982   International Art Fair, Basel
1983   Mulenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania
1983   International Art Fair, Chicago (by the Goldman Gallery)
1984   Gallerie Fabien Boulakia, Paris
1985   Sacrifice of Isaac, Jewish Museum, New York
1985   Sacrifice of Isaac, 18th Biennale of Sao Paulo.
1985   P.B.Van Voorst Van Beest Gallery, The Hague, Holland
1986   Corstitius, Delta Gallery, Rotterdam, Holland
1987   Nohra Haime Gallery, New York
1987   Myth transformed, Tel Aviv Museum, Israel  
1988   Menashe Kadishman Paintings, Lehigh University Art Galleries,

          Bethlehem
1988   Menashe Kadishman, Opferung Isaaks, Kammermusiksaal, Berlin
1989   Gallery Heyram-Semler, Paris
1990   Menashe Kadishman- Small Sculpture, Nohra Haime Gallery,
          New-York
1990   Birth and Other Sculptures- 1988-1990, The Israel Museum,

          Jerusalem. 
1992   Sculpture and Drawings, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
1993   Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf, Germany
1994   Faret Tachikawa Art Project, Art Front Gallery, Tokyo (Curator: Fram

          Kitagawa)
1994   Floor sculpture - Antin Square, The Genia Schreiber University Art
          Gallery, Tel Aviv
1995   Menashe Kadishman Drawings and Sculptures, Artists House,
          Tel Aviv
1995   Kadishman in Galilee, the Art Gallery, Cabri, Lochamei Hagetaot
1996   Art Front Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
1997   Shalechet, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
1997   The Herd, National Art Gallery, Beijing, China
1998   Shalechet, Gallery Art Affairs, Amsterdam
1998   The Herd, Guan Shanyue Museum of Art, Shenzen, China
1998   The Herd, National Art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
1999   Sculpture 'Der Kuss', Strasse der Sculpturen Paris-Moskau,

          Skulpturenweg Salzgitter-Bad & Braunschwig Cloister, Germany
1999   Painting Peace For 'The Sons of Abraham', Givatayim Theatre, Israel
2000   The Flock, Vleeshal, Frans Halmuseum, Haarlem, Holland.
2000   Avraham Binder - Menashe Kadishman Homage to the artist -
          Artists House, Tel Aviv
2001   Sculpture, The Family Plaza, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
2002   Permanent installation- Shalechet, Jewish Museum, Berlin
2002   Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
2006   Manashe Kadishman, the Tel Aviv Museum, Israel
2006   Prints, the Genia Schreiber University Gallery, Tel Aviv
2006   Draw Me a Sheep, Tel Aviv Museum, Israel
2006   Sculptures, the Office Gallery, Tel Aviv
2007   New Work, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv