Zigi Ben-Haim
Zigi Ben-Haim (born 1945 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an American-Jewish sculptor and painter who lives and works in New York and Israel. He grew up in Israel and studied at The Avni Institute of Fine Arts in Tel-Aviv from 1966 to 1970. After he moved to the United States, he went to California College of Arts & Crafts in 1971 and received M.A at J.F.K. University in 1973 and M.F.A at the San Francisco State University in 1974. In 1975 he became a U.S. citizen, and has been living and working in lower Manhattan ever since.[1] With his sculptural works made out of discarded newsprint and industrial paper, which he found on the streets of Soho, he gained notoriety in the 1970s in the US, Europe and Israel. Later on, aluminum became the industrial basic material of his work. His works are included and exhibited in numerous public and private collections around the world, including the Guggenheim, the Jewish Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Israel Museum, and the Tel-Aviv Museum.[2]
Selected Public Collections
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
- Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
- Israel Air Force Center Foundation, Tel-Aviv, Israel
- NASA, Houston, Texas
- Bank Leumi USA, Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
- Pfizer Company Collection, New York, NY
- Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA
- Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
- Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel
- Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
- New School, New York, NY
- University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.
- Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
- Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
- Malmö Museum, Malmö, Sweden.
- Jewish Museum, New York, NY
- Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
- Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, Ghent, Belgium.
- National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
- Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, NY
- Buscaglia-Castellanni, University Museum, Lewiston, NY
- Dan Eilat Hotel, Israel.
- International Paper Company, New York, NY
- World Bank, Washington D.C.
- Davis Polk & Wordwell, New York, NY
- Westminster Bank, New York, NY
- Israel Embassy, Washington D.C.
- Frederick R. Weisman, Los Angeles, CA.
- Rikers Hill Sculpture Park, Livingston, NJ
- Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
- Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
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1945 |
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Baghdad, Iraq |
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