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Ruth Dorrit Yacoby

Ruth Dorrit Yacoby is an international artist, a groundbreaking painter and poet whose work is distinguished by an idiosyncratic personal signature and a total artistic language that ties together the local, the personal, and the inner truth with the universal to generate a life-affirming message.

Profound and unique, Yacoby's work conveys rare qualities and the virtues of great art. She is well versed in contemporary trends and masters diverse techniques, thus introducing a work which is at once innovative and classical, original and uncompromising.

Yacoby's practice is underlain by of a deep sense of vocation. Her art has earned great appreciation and impressive international acclaim despite the fact that she resides in Arad, far-removed from the power centers of the Israeli art world and the world at large. Heretofore she has staged 67 solo exhibition of her work in major museums and galleries extending over five continents. All of her overseas shows were presented under the auspices of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israeli embassies and consulates in the respective countries. In each stop in this worldwide itinerary, her works have been warmly embraced by the local audiences, who perceived them as mirrors of their own cultures and languages, regarding Yacoby as a cultural ambassador of Israel, who brings the spirit of the desert and the yearning for peace with her.

A permanent display of Yacoby's work, "The Woman of the Thousand Voices," was inaugurated in 2008 at The Mishkan in her hometown Arad in Israel's southern regions. Profoundly spiritual and religious, her oeuvre spans the entire range of religious manifestations from radical spirituality through a primordial magical religious sense ritual religious art.

Yacoby's art has garnered interest among students, who visit The Mishkan to delve into the secret allure of her work. Their resulting papers form the infrastructure for academic research into her total oeuvre. Moreover, essays about Yacoby's work are included in high school textbooks and are studied as part of the curriculum in various collages, universities, and schools of art.

Housed in a 700 sq. m. space, The Mishkan is a place of interdisciplinary practice featuring poetry, installation, and film, where the combination of different art forms spawns a new site-specific language imbued with the desert air. It is a place of rebirth in the wilderness, a site of original spiritual creation nourished by the elements, which infuse and engulf visitors and artists with inspiration, courage, and the power of faith to live and create through a sense of vocation. The Mishkan is a cultural, educational, and artistic venue and a museum space which is a lodestone and site of pilgrimage to pupils, students, art lovers, visitors and others, where empowerment workshops and cultural meetings between members of the local community and visitors from Israel and abroad are held.

The Mishkan is recognized as a peripheral art center and supported by the Israel National Lottery Council for the Arts. It is a place of vision and realization which brings the center to the periphery, transforming margins into center. Visitors are offered a transcendental journey, a quest of personal transformation toward reconciliation and healing, offering consolation and hope in the encounter between people and nations, with art as a bridge and a prayer for peace.

Her unique, sincere and fascinating work, her perseverance despite her isolation, the boundless dedication and modesty, and the sense of vocation; Her extraordinary achievements in creating an idiosyncratic artistic language, and her broad and branched artistic activity in Israel and the world over; her conceiving of and erecting the Center as a place where a generation of students and art practitioners is being fostered, and filling it with an impressive body of work; opening up her artistic world to the public; her pedagogical and cultural activity for the benefit of the community and her collaboration with various associations and organizations operating in the geographic, cultural, and social margins;

In this sense, Yacoby primarily voices the ultimate wish of the creative soul: the union of the corporeal and the spiritual. The graceful touch of the gifted hand upon the inspiration of spirit.

Looking at her works one feels her art was hewn from the depths of the soul, as if observing an unfolding story, whose existential intensity draws upon the effort and aspiration toward spiritual and creative development and toward self-fulfillment as a wife and mother. The viewer is asked to share her life, her experience, her prayer, and is carried into flight like her figures of light. Yacoby strives to come out of darkness and emerge into the light.

Dorrit Yacoby’s oeuvre is nourished by that which is specifically and singularly Israeli, unique to the Land of Israel and to Israeliness in essence and spirit; therefrom she rises and emerges to embrace universality.

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

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

1989 Dorrit Yacoby's Works, Abraham Baron Art Gallery, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva,Israel

1989 Dorrit Yacoby, Mishkan Le'Omanut Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel

1990 Dorrit Yacoby, Kunst-Auktionshaus Poorhosaini, Darmstadt, Germany

1990 Works 87-90, The Art Gallery of YMHA Bergen County, Washington Township, New Jersey, USA

1990 Works 87-90, Ami Steinitz Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

1991 Dorrit Yacoby, Gallerie Gottfried Weber House, Freinsheim, Germany

1991 War Signals, K.A.A.I., Kingston, Ontario, Canada

1991 War Signals, Connexion Gallerie, Fredericton, Canada

1991 Dorrit Yacoby, Gallerie Kurhaus, Bad Zalhausen, Germany

1991 War Signals, Galerie Sans Nom, Moncaton, Canada

1991 War Signals, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

1992 New Works of Dorrit Yacoby, Gallery am Dambach, Aachen, Germany

1992 War Signals, Arnold Gottlieb Gallery, Toronto, Canada

1992 Dorrit Yacoby, The Saydie Bronfman Art Gallery, Montreal, Canada

1992 Daphna Naor Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel

1993 The P.C.I. Gallery, Heidelberg, Germany

1993 Eyla's S Gallery, Berlin, Germa

1994 "Vessel of the Soul", Arad Museum, Arad, Israel

1994 New Works, Haldenslaben, Germany

1994 Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, Israel

1994 Gallerie Himmelreich, Magdeburg, Germany

1994 Industrie Kredit bank AG, Berlin, Germany

1994 Sara Levy Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

1995 "Flying Woman and White Erosion", North Dakota Museum, USA

1995 Dresden Archive Gallery, Dresden, Germany

1995 "Woman and Paint", Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada

1995 "Flying Woman and White Erosion", Jewish Community Center, Vancouver, Canada

1995 "Vessel of the Soul", Visual Theatre Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel

1995 "Letters to Yael, Journey to Osaka", Kibbutz Nachshon, Israel

1996 Mulheim Museum of Contemporary Art, Mulheim, Germany

1996 Canadian Art Gallery, Canadian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan

1996 Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan

1996 2001 Art Gallery, Kobe, Japan

1996 Wan Fung Art Gallery, Beijing, People Republic of China

1996 Avraham Baron Art Gallery, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

1996 Dynslakn, Bank Sparkasse, Dynslakn, Germany

1996 Imperial Queen’s Park Hotel Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand

1996 Notices - The Gallery, Singapore

1996 Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

1997 Flying in the Fragile Light, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel Flying Woman, Kolon, Germany

1997 To Have and To Hold, Songowon Gallery, Kwangju, Korea

1998 To Have and To Hold, Munhwa Ilbo Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1998 Woman Holding Chaos and Pain, Dresdner Bank, Mainz, Germany

1998 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

1999 Woman Holding the Sun and the Moon, Gallery 2001, Kobe, Japan

1999 Woman Holding the Sun and the Moon, Contemporary Art Center, Sabea, Japan

1999 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

2000 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

2004 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

2005 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

1986 Scholarship Winners Exhibition, Sharet Foundation, America Cultural Foundation, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

1986 "Summer Show", Mary Anne McCarthy Fine Art Gallery, New York, USA

1986 "Art Israel, the 1980's", Mary Anne McCarthy Fine Art Gallery, New York, USA

1987 Meimad Visual Arts Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

1987 "Visiting Card", curated by Dr. Gideon Ofrat, Bezalel Academy Art Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel 1987 "Found Materials", The Art Workshop Gallery, Yavneh, Israel

1987 "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

1988 "Yezier Ramon", Curated by Dr. Gideon Ofrat, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel

1988 Special Show, Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, Israel

1990 18 Kunstler aus Israel, Die Pupme, Berlin, Germany

1990 Ami Steinitz Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

1990 "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

1991 "The Presence of the Absence: The Empty Chair", The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

1991 "Perching 91", Jaffa House of Artists, W.L.S.Y., Tel Aviv, Israel

1991 Israeli Art Month, Painting and Sculpture, Israel Festival, Jerusalem Theatre, Jerusalem, Israel

1991 Emptiness in Israeli Contemporary Art, The Art Workshop Gallery, Yavneh, Israel

1992 "Painting Flowers Now", Rehovot Municipal Art Gallery, Rehovot, Israel

1992 "From the Limits of the West" (the 500th anniversary of the Expulsion from Spain), Jerusalem Theatre, Jerusalem; Artist's House, Tel Aviv , Israel

1992 Abraham Baron Art Gallery, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

1992 "Seeing Through: Transparency of Color and Material in Contemporary Israeli Art, Arad Museum; 1992 Bat-Yam Museum; HaZore'a Museum, Israel

1992 Postscripts: End Representations in Contemporary Israeli Art, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

1992 Ayala Zacs Abrahamov Collection, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

1992 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

1994 "Encounters", Joe Alon Museum, Kibbutz Lahav, Israel

1994 Dafna Naor Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel

1994 “First Person Unknown”, Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod; Bat Yam Museum, Bat Yam; The Art

1994 Workshop Gallery, Yavneh; Israel

1995 Contribution to UNICHEF, Istanbul, Turkey

1995 Dialogue, Cosmos Gallery, Vienna, Austria

1995 Dialogue, Bad Kissingen Kunsthalle, Bad Kissingen, Germany

1995 Dialogue, Graz - Kunsthalle - Graz, Germany

1995 Art Expo, Istanbul, Turkey

1995 Containers of the Soul, Merkin Gallery, New York, USA

1996 Link Hambhach Castle, Castle of Bad, Durkheim, Germany

1996 Blue and White, Binnet Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

1996 Letters for Peace, Eretz-Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel; Amman, Jordan; traveling show, U.S.A.

1996 Women’s Work, Yadaim Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

1996 Vision of the New Morning, Hambacher; Schiab Neustadt, Germany

1996 Woman’s Voice Against Violence, Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem, Israel

1996 Israeli Artists in Dresden, House of Parliament of Saxony, Germany

1996 Portraits, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

1996 10 Years of Ministry of Education and Culture Prize Winners Exhibition, Tel Aviv Museum of Art,Tel Aviv, Israel

1996 Creation Prize, Artists’ House, Tel Aviv, Israel

1997 Samson and Delilah, Ashdod Museum, Ashdod, Israel

1997 Women Against Violence, Hebrew Union College, New York

1997 Portraits, Bat-Yam Municipal Museum, Israel

1997 Trianalle, New Delhi, India

1997 Miniature, traveling exhibition, Italy

1997 Women of the Eighties in Israeli Art, Artists’ House, Haifa, Israel

1998 Women of the Nineties in Israeli Art, Artists’ House, Haifa, Israel

1998 Gallerie des artist, Singapore

1998 Forum of Peace, Givataim Theater, Israel

1998 Current State-of-Affairs, Arad Museum, Israel

1998 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

2002 Homage to a Great Master, Givatayim Theater, Israel

2002 Matter as Spirit, Spirit as Matter, Umm el-Fahem Gallery of Art Israel

2002 Reflections of Light, Haifa Theater Gallery, Israel

2002 Empowerment: Female Leadership, David Intercontinental Hotel, Tel Aviv, Israel

2003 The Wandering Library, The Artists’ Museum, Venice Biennale, Italy

2003 Art of the Eighties, Oranim College Gallery, Israel

2003 Screening of Gate of Tears, Rain of Roses, Oren Suns Foundation, New York

2004 The Masked Ball, The Corine Mamman Ashdod Museum, Israel

2004 Women Love, Thirty + Three, Haifa Theater Gallery, Israel

2004 The Wandering Library, The Artists’ Museum, Lodz, Poland

2005 As if the plenty never stopped, High-Touch, Hertzeliya, Israel

2005 Urim-lights, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

2005 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

2010 "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