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Ruth Dorrit Yacoby is an internationally recognized artist, painter, and poet, whose works have been featured in over 67 solo exhibitions worldwide; they have been shown in major galleries and museums in New York, Toronto, Montreal, Berlin, Tokyo, Beijing, Seoul, Mexico City, Lima, and Buenos Aires, as well as at the Tel Aviv Museum and the Israel Museum. In 2000, her solo exhibition "Gate of Tears, Rain of Roses" was featured at the Vatican in Rome blessed by the Pope. In 2008, a permanent exhibition of her works was inaugurated at the Center for Art and Creation – The Woman of the Thousand Voices. This exhibition is housed in a former industrial hangar in Arad, on the outskirts of the Judean Desert, along the road leading to the Dead Sea. The exhibition is accompanied by the film The Woman of the Thousand Voices. Biographical Notes Born in 1952

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 1990 -1995 	Jewish Philosophy, 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 2008   The Council for culture and art of the lottery of Israel 2010    The Michel Kikoïne Prize 2010, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv University

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.

2010    The Woman of the Thousand Voices, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv

University, Israel

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 2009    "Vanishing faces" museum for the arts Lyon France 2010    "Sham" Festival the art gallery, "K" College Be'er Sheva Israel "Women Engaged with God" the Central memorial gallery, Tivon Israel

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