Ruth Dorrit Yacoby
Biographical Notes
Born in 1952EDUCATION
1978 pa B.A. in Psychology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
1982 Graduate School of Visual Arts, Beer Sheva, Israel
1983 Teacher Training School, Ramat Hasharon, Israel
Since 1995 Working towards Master Degree in Mystics in Judaism, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
GRANTS AND AWARDS
1981 Sharet Foundation, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
1986 Sharet Foundation, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
1988 Minister of Education and Culture Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Israel
1989 Visual Arts Project Grant, The Canadian Council of the Arts
1992 Visual Arts Project Grant, The Canadian Council of the Arts
1992 America-Israel Cultural Foundation Prize
1995 Travel Grant, The Canadian Council of the Arts
1996 Prize of Creation, Ministry of Education and Culture
1998 Travel Grant, The Canadian Council of the Arts
2004 Creation Prize, Ministery of Education and Culture Israel
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1986 Works 85-86, Arad Museum, Arad, Israel
1987 Special Exhibition: Dorrit Yacoby Paintings, Chief Curator Igal Zalmona, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
1989 Dorrit Yacoby, Rehovot Municipal Art Gallery, Rehovot, Israel
Dorrit Yacoby's Works, Abraham Baron Art Gallery, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
Dorrit Yacoby, Mishkan Le'Omanut Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel
1990 Dorrit Yacoby, Kunst-Auktionshaus Poorhosaini, Darmstadt, Germany
Works 87-90, The Art Gallery of YMHA Bergen County, Washington Township, New Jersey, USA
Works 87-90, Ami Steinitz Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
1991 Dorrit Yacoby, Gallerie Gottfried Weber House, Freinsheim, Germany
War Signals, K.A.A.I., Kingston, Ontario, Canada
War Signals, Connexion Gallerie, Fredericton, Canada
Dorrit Yacoby, Gallerie Kurhaus, Bad Zalhausen, Germany
War Signals, Galerie Sans Nom, Moncaton, Canada
War Signals, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
1992 New Works of Dorrit Yacoby, Gallery am Dambach, Aachen, Germany
War Signals, Arnold Gottlieb Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Dorrit Yacoby, The Saydie Bronfman Art Gallery, Montreal, Canada
Daphna Naor Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
1993 The P.C.I. Gallery, Heidelberg, Germany
Eyla's S Gallery, Berlin, Germany
1994 "Vessel of the Soul", Arad Museum, Arad, Israel
New Works, Haldenslaben, Germany
Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, Israel
Gallerie Himmelreich, Magdeburg, Germany
Industrie Kredit bank AG, Berlin, Germany
Sara Levy Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1995 "Flying Woman and White Erosion", North Dakota Museum, USA
Dresden Archive Gallery, Dresden, Germany
"Woman and Paint", Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
"Flying Woman and White Erosion", Jewish Community Center, Vancouver, Canada
"Vessel of the Soul", Visual Theatre Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
"Letters to Yael, Journey to Osaka", Kibbutz Nachshon, Israel
1996 Mulheim Museum of Contemporary Art, Mulheim, Germany
Canadian Art Gallery, Canadian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan
Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan
2001 Art Gallery, Kobe, Japan
Wan Fung Art Gallery, Beijing, People Republic of China
Avraham Baron Art Gallery, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
Dynslakn, Bank Sparkasse, Dynslakn, Germany
Imperial Queen’s Park Hotel Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
Notices - The Gallery, Singapore
Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
1997 Flying in the Fragile Light, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Flying Woman, Kolon, Germany
To Have and To Hold, Songowon Gallery, Kwangju, Korea
1998 To Have and To Hold, Munhwa Ilbo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Woman Holding Chaos and Pain, Dresdner Bank, Mainz, Germany
The Secret Rose Garden of the Angels, Museo del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico
1999 The Secret Rose Garden of the Angels, National Museum of Peru, Lima, Peru
Woman Holding the Sun and the Moon, Gallery 2001, Kobe, Japan
Woman Holding the Sun and the Moon, Contemporary Art Center, Sabea, Japan
Woman Holding the Sun and the Moon, Centro Cultural Recolata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2000 Gate of Tears, Rain of Roses, Pontifical Council for Culture of the Holy See, The Vatican
Gate of Tears, Rain of Roses, Abraham Baron Art Gallery, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
2004 For Thou Wilt Light My Candle, Korner Park Gallery, Berlin
The Woman of the Thousand Voices, Key Art College, Beer Sheva, Israel
2005 The Woman of the Thousand Voices, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile
The Woman of the Thousand Voices, Peoblo Blanco cultural Center, Punta del Este, Uruguay.
2006 The Woman of the Thousand Voices, Museo del Gaucho y de la Moneda, Montevideo Uruguay.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1983 Artists of the Negev, Municipal Gallery, Arad, Israel
1984 Ahad Ha'am Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1985 Ahad Ha'am Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1986 "Pressure Cooker", Jerusalem Theatre, Jerusalem, Israel
Scholarship Winners Exhibition, Sharet Foundation, America Cultural Foundation, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
"Summer Show", Mary Anne McCarthy Fine Art Gallery, New York, USA
"Art Israel, the 1980's", Mary Anne McCarthy Fine Art Gallery, New York, USA
1987 Meimad Visual Arts Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
"Visiting Card", curated by Dr. Gideon Ofrat, Bezalel Academy Art Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
"Found Materials", The Art Workshop Gallery, Yavneh, Israel
"On the Ground", Kalisher 5 Art Gallery, Omanut La'am, Tel Aviv, Israel
1988 "Fresh Paint: Contemporary Israeli Art", Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
"Yezier Ramon", Curated by Dr. Gideon Ofrat, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel
Special Show, Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, Israel
1990 18 Kunstler aus Israel, Die Pupme, Berlin, Germany
Ami Steinitz Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
"Feminine Presence: Israeli Women Artists in the 70's and the 80's", Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
1991 "Summer 1991: Israeli Art Now - An Extensive Presentation", Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
"The Presence of the Absence: The Empty Chair", The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
"Perching 91", Jaffa House of Artists, W.L.S.Y., Tel Aviv, Israel
Israeli Art Month, Painting and Sculpture, Israel Festival, Jerusalem Theatre, Jerusalem, Israel
Emptiness in Israeli Contemporary Art, The Art Workshop Gallery, Yavneh, Israel
1992 "Painting Flowers Now", Rehovot Municipal Art Gallery, Rehovot, Israel
"From the Limits of the West" (the 500th anniversary of the Expulsion from Spain), Jerusalem Theatre, Jerusalem; Artist's House, Tel Aviv , Israel
Abraham Baron Art Gallery, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
"Seeing Through: Transparency of Color and Material in Contemporary Israeli Art, Arad Museum; Bat-Yam Museum; HaZore'a Museum, Israel
Postscripts: End Representations in Contemporary Israeli Art, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Ayala Zacs Abrahamov Collection, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Josh Baer Gallery, New York, USA
1993 "The Range of Realism", Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
1994 "Raw Material", Yaffet Gallery, Jaffa, Tel Aviv; Kibbutz Nachshon, Israel
"Encounters", Joe Alon Museum, Kibbutz Lahav, Israel
Dafna Naor Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
“First Person Unknown”, Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod; Bat Yam Museum, Bat Yam; The Art Workshop Gallery, Yavneh; Israel
1995 Contribution to UNICHEF, Istanbul, Turkey
Dialogue, Cosmos Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Dialogue, Bad Kissingen Kunsthalle, Bad Kissingen, Germany
Dialogue, Graz - Kunsthalle - Graz, Germany
Art Expo, Istanbul, Turkey
Containers of the Soul, Merkin Gallery, New York, USA
1996 Link Hambhach Castle, Castle of Bad, Durkheim, Germany
Blue and White, Binnet Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Letters for Peace, Eretz-Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel; Amman, Jordan; traveling show, U.S.A.
Women’s Work, Yadaim Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Vision of the New Morning, Hambacher; Schiab Neustadt, Germany
Woman’s Voice Against Violence, Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem, Israel
Israeli Artists in Dresden, House of Parliament of Saxony, Germany
Portraits, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
10 Years of Ministry of Education and Culture Prize Winners Exhibition, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Creation Prize, Artists’ House, Tel Aviv, Israel
1997 Samson and Delilah, Ashdod Museum, Ashdod, Israel
Women Against Violence, Hebrew Union College, New York
Portraits, Bat-Yam Municipal Museum, Israel
Trianalle, New Delhi, India
Miniature, traveling exhibition, Italy
Women of the Eighties in Israeli Art, Artists’ House, Haifa, Israel
1998 Women of the Nineties in Israeli Art, Artists’ House, Haifa, Israel
Gallerie des artist, Singapore
Forum of Peace, Givataim Theater, Israel
Current State-of-Affairs, Arad Museum, Israel
Hachmi Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
1999 Plasmo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2000 The Human Figure in the Third Millenium, The Vatican
2002 Artists Against the Occupation, traveling exhibition
Homage to a Great Master, Givatayim Theater, Israel
Matter as Spirit, Spirit as Matter, Umm el-Fahem Gallery of Art Israel
Reflections of Light, Haifa Theater Gallery, Israel
Empowerment: Female Leadership, David Intercontinental Hotel, Tel Aviv, Israel
2003 The Wandering Library, The Artists’ Museum, Venice Biennale, Italy
Art of the Eighties, Oranim College Gallery, Israel
Screening of Gate of Tears, Rain of Roses, Oren Suns Foundation, New York
2004 The Masked Ball, The Corine Mamman Ashdod Museum, Israel
Women Love, Thirty + Three, Haifa Theater Gallery, Israel
The Wandering Library, The Artists’ Museum, Lodz, Poland
2005 As if the plenty never stopped, High-Touch, Hertzeliya, Israel
Urim-lights, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Recipients Prizes in Art from the Ministry of Education and Culture, 2004, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2006 Receptacles of spirit, Museo de la Cultura Maya Chetumal, Mexico
2007 Alchemy, The new Gallery, Jerusalem
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Mr. Ronald S. Lauder, USA
Mr. Leon Recanati, Israel
Carmen Gimenez, Madrid, Spain
Arad Museum, Arad Israel
Ayala Zacs-Abramov, Jerusalem, Israel
Ein Harod Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel
Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, Israel
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Dan Mayer, Paris, France
Musee d'Art Moderne, La Terrasse, Saint Etienne, France
Gabriele Uelsberg Collection, Aachen, Germany
Kapito Collection, Germany
Peter Raue Collection, Berlin, Germany
Poorhosaini Collection, Insbruck, Austria
Canada Art Bank, Ottawa, Canada
Discount Bank, New York, USA
The Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
Judy Mastai, Vancouver, Canada
Sara Reisman, Montreal, Canada
Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Wan Fang Art Gallery, Beijing, China
Jacky and David Berger, Israel
Santa and Norbert Pinch, Berlin, Germany
Uri and Tami Slonim, Israel
Charles Andy Bronfman, Montreal, Canada
Akiko Nawata, Tokyo, Japan
Louis Hammel, Tokyo, Japan
William Chan, Singapore
Mee Din Castronavo, Singapore
Mariko Ito, Tokyo, Japan
2001 Gallery, Kobe, Japan
Mulheim Museum, Mulheim, Germany
Notices The Gallery, Singapore
Komho Cultural Foundation, Kwangju, Korea
Munhwa Ilbo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
The Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture
Estrid and Henry Misrachi, Madrid, Spain
Dina Recanati
Miriam Doron
Amnon Goldenberg
Tulio Demicheli, Madrid, Spain
The Doron Sebbag Art Collection, ORS Ltd., Israel
Joseph Hackmey – Israel Phoenix Collection
Jennifer and David Serrour, Mexico
Mary Beth Sherydon, Washington, USA
Avi Angel, Israel