Abramson's first solo exhibition was in 1975. His work during the 1980s dealt with a variety of iconic symbols from modernist European art, particularly the "Black Square" by
Kazimir Malevich, which he used to create dynamic situations combining abstraction and a
figurative art idiom. During 1993 and 1994 Abramson created the series of work "tsooba," which was exhibited at the Kibbutz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv. The series was composed of 38 landscape paintings (oil on canvas), 38 impressions on newspaper of the landscape paintings, and a group of still life paintings after samples of flora taken from the site. This series relates to a mound of ruins near
Kibbutz Tzova, a site which was painted a decade earlier by the artist
Joseph Zaritsky. While Zaritsky ignored the Palestinian ruins found on the site and thus abstracted the landscape, Abramson painted the view realistically and then defaced it. By "seeing" the ruins of the Palestinian village, he criticizes the Israeli point of view which seeks to erase the Palestinian identity from the appropriated territory. In 1984, Abramson joined the teaching staff of the art department of the
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in
Jerusalem. In 1992, he was appointed head of the Fine Art department, and in 1996, he founded and headed the Bezalel Program for Young Artists (Master of Fine Art). In 2000 and 2003, he was invited as a guest lecturer at the
San Francisco Art Institute, and in 2002, he joined the academic team planning the establishment of a new art department at the
Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in
Ramat Gan, Israel. In May 2002, Abramson published in the journal Studio an article entitled "We Are All
Felix Nussbaum", in which he raised the problematic relationship between art and history in the
post-Holocaust era. In 2005, Abramson mounted an exhibition of works under the name "The Pile," which included charcoal drawings of piles of construction debris, relating to the issue of representation of ruins in art and the figure of Jewish-German painter Felix Nussbaum. This series was exhibited at the
Felix Nussbaum Haus Museum in
Osnabrück, (Germany, and at the
Chaim Atar Museum of Art on Kibbutz
Ein Harod in the
Jezreel Valley. In 2007, Abramson held an exhibition of recent paintings at the Gordon Gallery in Tel Aviv, and in 2010, an extensive retrospective exhibition of his work was held at the
Tel Aviv Museum of Art. ==Awards and recognition==