Biography

Dorrit Yacoby - Resume
Born in 1952
Canadian citizen

EDUCATION
1978B.A. in Psychology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
1982Graduate School of Visual Arts, Beer Sheva, Israel
1983Teacher Training School, Ramat Hasharon, Israel
Since 1995Working towards Master Degree in Mystics in Judaism, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
  
GRANTS AND AWARDS
1981Sharet Foundation, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
1986Sharet Foundation, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
1988Minister of Education and Culture Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Israel
1989Visual Arts Project Grant, The Canadian Council of the Arts
1992Visual Arts Project Grant, The Canadian Council of the Arts
1992America-Israel Cultural Foundation Prize
1995Travel Grant, The Canadian Council of the Arts
1996Prize of Creation, Ministry of Education and Culture
1998Travel Grant, The Canadian Council of the Arts
  
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1986Works 85-86, Arad Museum, Arad, Israel
1987Special Exhibition: Dorrit Yacoby Paintings, Chief Curator Igal Zalmona, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
1989Dorrit 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
1990Dorrit 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
1991Dorrit 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
1992New 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
1993The 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
1996Mulheim 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
1997Flying in the Fragile Light, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
 Flying Woman, Kolon, Germany
 To Have and To Hold, Songowon Gallery, Kwangju, Korea
1998To 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
1999The 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
2000Gate of Tears, Rain of Roses, Pontifical Council for Culture of the Holy See, The Vatican
  
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1983Artists of the Negev, Municipal Gallery, Arad, Israel
1984Ahad Ha'am Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1985Ahad 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
1987Meimad 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
199018 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
1995Contribution 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
1996Link 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
1997Samson 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
1998Women 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
1999Plasmo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2000The Human Figure in the Third Millenium, The Vatican
  
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
 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
 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
  
ON THE WEB
 web.kyoto-inet.or.jp
 www.bgu.ac.il
 www.dgfk.de
 www.interart.co.il
 www.womenbeyondborders.org
 www.stpauls.it
 The Israel Museum, Jerusalem