Zigi Ben-Haim (born 1945 in
Baghdad, Iraq) is an American-Israeli
painter and sculptor who lives and works in
New York City
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and
Israel
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.
Current Projects
Why Flowers?
"CoronaTime has accentuated our existence between life and death.
One object represents both ends.
Whether we’re going through bad times or good times we receive-Flowers!"
Past projects
On August 9, 2017, Ben-Haim unveiled his sculpture, Treasure the Green, in SoHo on Broadway. The project was sponsored by the SoHo Broadway Initiative and the New York Department of Transportation's Art Program. The sculpture is considered to be the first sculpture to receive permission to be installed on a bus bulb on Broadway. The sculpture was made to "emphasize the importance of nature in our lives," and stands as a reminder of "the importance of reconnecting with the pure nature of the green." The sculpture uses the symbol of the leaf, which has been a major icon of Ben-Haim's work for the past 30 years. It symbolizes nature and it is a metaphoric way of emphasizing nature and the surrounding environment.
Education
1972-74 M.F.A., San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, USA.
1972-73 M.A., J.F.K. University, Orinda, California, USA.
1971 California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, California, USA.
1966-70 The Avni Institute of Fine Arts, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Selected public collections
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
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Columbia Museum of Art
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History
The Columbia Museum of Art was originally in the 1908 private residence of the city's Taylor family. Located on Senate Street in Columbia, adj ...
, Columbia, SC
*Israel Air Force Center Foundation, Tel Aviv, Israel
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NASA
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, Houston, Texas
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Bank Leumi USA, Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
*Pfizer Company Collection, New York, NY
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Reading Public Museum
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Collection
The museum's art collection cont ...
, Reading, PA
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Guggenheim Museum
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Museums in this group include:
Locations
Americas
* The Solomon R. Guggenhei ...
, New York, NY
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Haifa Museum
The Haifa Museum of Art ( he, מוזיאון חיפה לאמנות, ar, متحف حيفا للفنون), established in 1951, is located in a historic building built in the 1930s in Wadi Nisnas, downtown Haifa. Ranking as Israel's third largest ...
, Haifa, Israel
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Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
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, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
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New School
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, New York, NY
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University of Maryland
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, College Park, Maryland.
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Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
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Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
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Malmö Museum
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, Malmö, Sweden.
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Jewish Museum A Jewish museum is a museum which focuses upon Jews and may refer seek to explore and share the Jewish experience in a given area.
List of Jewish museums
Notable Jewish museums include:
*Albania
** Solomon Museum, Berat
*Australia
** Jewish Mu ...
, New York, NY
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Tel Aviv Museum of Art
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, Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent
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The museum's collection consists of some 9000 artworks ...
, Ghent, Belgium.
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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.
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International Paper Company
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History
The company was incorporated January 31, ...
, New York, NY
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World Bank
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, Washington D.C.
*Davis Polk & Wordwell, New York, NY
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Westminster Bank
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, New York, NY
*Israel Embassy, Washington D.C.
*Frederick R. Weisman, Los Angeles, CA.
*Rikers Hill Sculpture Park, Livingston, NJ
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Heckscher Museum of Art
The Heckscher Museum of Art is named after its benefactor, August Heckscher, who in 1920 donated 185 works of art to be housed in a new Beaux-Arts building located in Heckscher Park, in Huntington, New York. The museum has over 2000 works of art ...
, Huntington, NY
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Allen Memorial Art Museum
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Overview
The AMAM is primarily a teaching museum and is aimed at ...
, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
See also
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Israeli art
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Israeli sculpture
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References
External links
Zigi Ben-Haim's websiteGrant recipient profileat the
America-Israel Cultural Foundation
The America-Israel Cultural Foundation (AICF) is a non-profit American foundation that supports cultural projects in Israel.
History
The America-Israel Cultural Foundation was established in 1939 to support the growth and development of a Jewish ...
Galerie Rother WinterStux GalleryChelouche Gallery*
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1945 births
American people of Iraqi-Jewish descent
Iraqi Jews
Iraqi painters
Iraqi sculptors
Jewish Israeli artists
Israeli male painters
Jewish painters
Jewish American artists
Living people
21st-century American Jews