Born November 28. 1945, Baghdad, Iraq
Lives & Works in Israel and New York City
Education
1972 – 74 M.F.A., San Francisco State University, San Francisco,
California, USA
1972 – 73 M.A., J.F.K. University, Orinda, California, USA
1971 – 72 California College of Arts, Oakland, California, USA
1966 – 70 The Avni Institute of Fine Arts, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Grants & Awards
2007 The Emily Harvey Foundation, Fellowship to Venice, Italy.
2004 DAAD Fellowship to Berlin, Germany.
2000 Niche Award for sculpture.
1996 Pollack Krasner Foundation Grant.
1992 Guest Artist Fellowship, Artists Union, U.S.S.R.
1990 Pollack Krasner Foundation Grant.
1990 MacDowell Colony Residency, NH, USA
1984 National Endowment for the Arts.
1983 New York State Council on the Arts, A.R.E.A. Project.
1982 Muestra Int. de Obra Grafica, Bilbao, Spain.
1970 Ministry of Culture, Israel.
1966 – 1970 America Israel Culture Foundation, Israel.
Upcoming
2008 Traveling Retrospective, Tel-Aviv Museum, Israel, Fall 2008
Solo Exhibitions
2007 Industrial Baroque, Painting, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, N.Y. (Catalogue)
2005 90 Days of Berlin: Sculpture, Paintings & Drawings, Stefan Stux Gallery,
New York, NY, USA (catalogue)
2004 – 05 Journey with Me Sculpture, German Embassy, Washington. D.C., USA (catalogue)
2003 – 04 Splendid Step Sculpture, Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, New York, NY, USA
(commissioned by the City of New York/Parks & Recreation)
2003 Journey with Me Sculpture, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ, USA (catalogue)
2003 Painting and Sculpture, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY, USA (catalogue)
2002 Journey With Me Sculpture 1984-2000, in collaboration with Laumeier
Sculpture Park, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA (catalogue)
2000 Blue Highway, Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel (catalogue)
2000 Summer Blue drawings and paintings, ZDF, New York, NY, USA
2000 Journey With Me Sculpture, Ball State University Museum of Art, Muncie, IN, USA, (catalogue)
1999 Sculpture and Drawing, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV, USA (catalogue)
1999 Paintings 1992-1996, Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, IL, USA
1998 Journey With Me Sculpture 1984-1997, Cedarhurst Sculpture Park,
Mt.Vernon, IL, USA (catalogue)
1998 Zigi Ben-Haim, And Now public Sculptures, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel
1997 – 98 Journey With Me Sculpture 1984-1997, Fordham University,
Sculpture Garden at Lincoln Center, New York, NY, USA (catalogue)
1997 Paintings & Drawings, Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
1996 Leaf Path, Curated by Maggie Nolan, Ann Harper Gallery, Amagansett, NY, USA
1995 Windows '95, ZDF German T.V., New York, NY, USA
1994 Benshahn Galleries, WPC Collage, Wayne, NJ, USA (catalogue).
1994 Scattered Echo, Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel (catalogue).
1989 – 91 The Dance, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY, USA (traveling exhibition, (catalogue).
1989 Works on Paper, Gallery Andreas Tornberg, Lund, Sweden
1987 Jewish Museum Sculpture Court, New York, NY, USA
1986 Walking Field, Project Room, P.S. 1, Queens, NY, USA
1986 Façade Gallery, Paris, France
1985 Baumgartner Gallery, Washington, DC, USA
1984 Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (catalogue)
1984 Works on paper, Gallery Andreas Tornberg, Lund, Sweden |
