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| Home phone: | (212) 431-4689 |
| Address: | New York
NY, 10012
United States
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| Email: | zigi@zigiland.com |
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My statement
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I was five years old when my family and I left my birthplace of Baghdad, Iraq, and immigrated to Israel via Iran. It was in Tel-Aviv where I spent my adolescence and where I graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in 1970. Following a solo exhibition as a young artist, the America Israel Cultural Foundation awarded me a scholarship to study abroad. I arrived in California and enrolled at the San Francisco State University. I exhibited my art while completing my MFA degree. I set off for the East Coast after graduation and have been living and working in lower Manhattan since 1975.
For the past three decades I have been working on sculptures, paintings, drawings and installations that trace the footprints of various cultures throughout world history, inspired by my own background. The essence of my work lies in balancing the tension between surviving and vanishing. The abstract forms I utilize are drawn from both the natural and industrial/cultural world. Materialized in my work, each world adopts the other; they collide and coincide with each other to form a third “being-existence” – one that reflects the idea of survival and projects the energy of life.
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Professional history
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Grants & Awards:
2007 The Emily Harvey Foundation Fellowship
to Venice, Italy
2004 DAAD Fellowship to Berlin, Germany
2000 Niche Award for Sculpture
1996 Pollack Krasner Foundation Grant
1992 Guest Artist Fellowship, Artists Union,
U.S.S.R.
1990 Pollack Krasner Foundation Grant
1990 MacDowell Colony Residency
1984 National Endowment for the Arts
1983 New York State Council for the Arts,
A.R.E.A. Project
1982 Muestra Int. de Obra Grafica, Bilbao,
Spain
1970 Ministry of Culture, Israel
1966-1970 America Israel Culture Foundation
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Disciplines
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| Drawing | Mixed media |
| Painting | Photography |
| Sculpture |
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Collections
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Israel Air Force Center Foundation
NASA
Tel-Aviv Museum, Israel
Guggenheim Museum
Haifa Museum, Israel
Israel Museum
Brooklyn Museum
Malmo Museum, Sweden
Jewish Museum
Tel-Aviv Museum of Art
Ghent Museum
American National Gallery
Israel Embassy
Frederick R. Weisman Foundation
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Latest activities
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Shows:
2008 Traveling Retrospective, Tel-Aviv Museum
2007 Industrial Baroque, Painting, Stefan Stux
Gallery, New York, NY
Commissions:
2006 "Knights of Starry Skies," Israel Air Force
Center Foundation
2006 "Among the Stars and Angels," NASA
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