Siona Shimshi

Siona Shimshi
Born 1939
Tel Aviv
Spouse Jachin Hirsch
Nationality Israeli
Field Painter, sculptor, ceramist, and textile designer
Training Avni Institute, Alfred University, Greenwich House Pottery
Awards
  • Ariel Elchanini Prize (1988)
Website art-sionashimshi.com

Siona Shimshi (also "Ziona"; Hebrew: ציונה שמשי‎ born 1939) is an Israeli painter, sculptor, ceramist, and textile designer.[1][2][3]

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Early life

Shimshi was born in Tel Aviv, to Haya Rivka (Kuklanski) and Avraham Shimshi, who had immigrated to Palestine from Lithuania in 1933.[4][1][5][6] She married Jachin Hirsch, an Israeli filmmaker, in 1961.[7]

She studied at the Avni Institute in Tel Aviv from 1956–59, with Avigdor Stematsky, Yehezkel Streichman, and Moshe Mokady.[4][8][9] She also studied ceramics at Alfred University in New York, from 1959–62, as well as at Greenwich House Pottery in New York City.[4][5][10][11]

Art career

In 1965, she was a co-founder of a group of artists called the "10+ Group", along with artists Buky Schwartz, Raffi Lavie, and others.[12][13]

Shimshi was head of the Ceramic Design Department and taught as a professor at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, from 1979–87.[4][8][14][15][16] In 1979, she designed the set for a performance of A Simple Story by Shmuel Yosef Agnon for the Habimah Theater in Tel Aviv.[4]

In 1993–94, she was the curator of an exhibition of Dora Gad, in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.[4][17]

Among her creations are a work in wood that is exhibited in the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, a wall hanging at the Tel Aviv Hilton, a 1998 sculpture for Israel's 50th anniversary that is exhibited in Holon, glass walls at Kennedy Airport in New York City, and a 2004 portrait painting of Natan Alterman that appears on the facade of Tel Aviv City Hall.[4][18]

Shimshi was awarded the 1988 Ariel Elchanini Prize by the Joshua Rabinowitz Foundation for Arts, for her sculpture in Goren Goldstein Park in Tel Aviv.[4] In 2005, she was voted the 197th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.[19]

References

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  14. ^ International Association of Universities (1983). International handbook of universities and other institutions of higher education, Volume 9. http://books.google.com/books?id=OFJBAQAAIAAJ&q=siona+Shimshi&dq=siona+Shimshi&hl=en&ei=hp45TqmALenV0QGKxqXzAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAzgU. Retrieved August 3, 2011. 
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  19. ^ גיא בניוביץ' (June 20, 1995). "הישראלי מספר 1: יצחק רבין – תרבות ובידור". Ynet. http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3083171,00.html. Retrieved July 10, 2011. 

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