Siona Shimshi Explained

Siona Shimshi
Birth Date:14 July 1939
Birth Place:Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine
Death Place:Tel Aviv, Israel
Nationality:Israeli
Spouse:Jachin Hirsch (1934–2011)
Field:Painter, sculptor, textile designer
Training:Avni Institute, Alfred University, Greenwich House Pottery
Works:33 solo exhibitions, 50 group exhibitions, curator of 21 thematic exhibitions and the Israeli Internet Art Biennial (2012–2014)
Patrons:Collaborated with architects Dora Gad. Aba Elchanani, Rafael Blumenfeld, Heinz Penchel
Awards:Arie El-Hanani: Prize for Art in Architecture (1988)

Siona Shimshi (also "Ziona"; Hebrew: ציונה שמשי; July 14, 1939 – October 16, 2018) was an Israeli painter, sculptor, ceramist, and textile designer.[1] [2] [3]

Early life

Siona Shimshi was born on July 14, 1939, in Tel Aviv, to Haya Rivka (Kuklanski) and Avraham Shimshi, who had immigrated to Mandate Palestine from Lithuania in 1933.[1] [4] [5] [6] She married Jachin Hirsch, an Israeli filmmaker, in 1961.[7]

She studied at the Avni Institute in Tel Aviv from 1956 to 1959, with Avigdor Stematsky, Yehezkel Streichman, and Moshe Mokady.[4] [8] [9] She also studied ceramics at Alfred University in New York, from 1959 to 1962, 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 to 1987.[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]

Awards

Shimshi was awarded the 1988 Arie El Hanani Prize by the Joshua Rabinowitz Foundation for Arts, for her sculpture in Goren Goldstein Park in Tel Aviv.[4]

Death

Shimshi died in Tel Aviv on October 16, 2018, at the age of 79.[19] She was buried at Yarkon Cemetery.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Multicultural art activities kit: ready-to-use lessons and projects with 194 drawings, photos, and color prints. Dwila Bloom, Vincent Walter . 1994 . 9780876285879. August 3, 2011.
  2. Book: Chronology of women's history . registration . 250 . Greenwood Publishing Group . 1994 . Kirstin Olsen. 9780313288036 . August 3, 2011.
  3. Book: The Women's book of world records and achievements. registration . siona Shimshi 1939. . Anchor Press/Doubleday . 1979 . Lois Decker O'Neill . August 3, 2011.
  4. Web site: Artists' Information . Israel Museum Information Center for Israeli Art . August 3, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120321180853/http://www.imj.org.il/artcenter/default.asp?artist=278190&list=S . March 21, 2012 .
  5. Book: Crafts of Israel . 1974 . Ruth Dayan, Wilburt Feinberg . 9780025344204 . August 3, 2011.
  6. Web site: artsionashimshi.com . art-sionashimshi.com . August 3, 2011.
  7. Web site: artsionashimshi.com . art-sionashimshi.com . August 3, 2011.
  8. Book: Autour de l'art juif: encyclopédie des peintres, photographes et sculpteurs . Carnot . 2003. Adrian M. Darmon . 9782848550114 . August 3, 2011.
  9. Book: Art in Israel . 1976. Ran Sheḥori . 9780805236057 . August 3, 2011.
  10. Book: Ten thousand years of pottery . 2000 . Emmanuel Cooper . 0812235541 . August 3, 2011.
  11. Book: Crafts of Israel . 1974 . Ruth Dayan, Wilburt Feinberg. 9780025344204 . August 3, 2011.
  12. News: Armon . Ellie . Video art pioneer passes away at 77 . Haaretz . February 22, 2011 . August 3, 2011.
  13. News: A round of applause for nostalgia . https://web.archive.org/web/20121107143630/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/1457856451.html?dids=1457856451:1457856451&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Mar+28,+2008&author=GIL+GOLDFINE&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=A+round+of+applause+for+nostalgia&pqatl=google . dead . November 7, 2012 . The Jerusalem Post . March 28, 2008 . Gil Goldfine . August 3, 2011.
  14. Book: International handbook of universities and other institutions of higher education, Volume 9 . 1983 . International Association of Universities . 9783110097436 . August 3, 2011.
  15. News: Distinctive Pottery . https://web.archive.org/web/20121107143640/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/99659022.html?dids=99659022:99659022&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Feb+22,+1991&author=Angela+Levine&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=DISTINCTIVE+POTTERY&pqatl=google . dead . November 7, 2012 . The Jerusalem Post . February 22, 1991 . Angela Levine . August 3, 2011.
  16. News: Crafty Art . https://web.archive.org/web/20121107143651/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/64153538.html?dids=64153538:64153538&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=May+23,+1997&author=Meir+Ronnen&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=Crafty+Art&pqatl=google . dead . November 7, 2012 . The Jerusalem Post . Meir Ronnen. May 23, 1997. August 3, 2011.
  17. Web site: Saar . Yuval . Dora Gad's private sanctuary . Haaretz . March 15, 2011 . August 3, 2011.
  18. Book: New art around the world: painting and sculpture . siona Shimshi. . H. N. Abrams . Will Grohmann. Sam Hunter . Sam Hunter (art historian). 1966 . August 3, 2011.
  19. News: האמנית הרב־תחומית ציונה שמשי מתה בגיל 79 . 27 October 2018 . haaretz.co.il . he. 7 September 2020.

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