EDUCATION:

1978 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
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-Isarel Cultural Foundation Prize
1995   Travel Grant, The Canadian Council of the Arts
1996  Prize of Creation, Ministry of Education and Culture

EXHIBITIONS

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
       Dafna 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, Rosita Gallery, 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

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, Rehovot, 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, Arad; 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
       Dialog Cosmos Gallery, Vienna, Austria
       Dialog Bad Kissingen Kunsthalle, Bad Kissingen, Germany
       Dialog 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
 Minature, 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
 
 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