Zahara Rubin

Education

In 1950 Rubin graduated the Shomryia High-School in Kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek. A few years later she completed further studies with sculptor Dalia Mei"ri at Emek Yizrael College.

Career

As a mother of four and having worked in different sectors of the Kibbutz, she went to study sculpture with sculptor Yaakov Epstein, in the Plastic Arts Academy of Bat-Yam. At present she uses a variety of formative arts methods to express herself, mainly bronze sculptures, as well as wood and marble sculptures, "Relief Painting", "Soft Painting" technique, wool tapestries and fantastic black painted creatures" images on natural white plywood boards. On April 1989, hotelier Leon Taman hosted the then Italian Prime Minister Ciriaco de Mita and his Minister of Foreign Affairs Giulio Andreotti at the Hotel Daniel and presented them with Rubin"s sculpture Dove of Peace.

1972 – HaKibutz HaArtzi Building, Tel-Aviv

1976 – Wilfrid Israel Museum, HaZore"a

1979 – BookShop, London

1982 – Uri & Rami Nechushtan Museum, Ashdot-Ya"akov

1983 – Yad LaBanim Museum, Tiberias

1985 – Meisner, Hamburg, Germany

1987 – Tirosh, Tel Aviv

1991 – Culture Palace, Netanya

1992 – "The Tower", Tel Aviv

1994 – Engel, Tel Aviv

1996 – Moriya, Eilat

2003 – Culture Palace, Kfar Sava

2004 – Culture Palace, Kfar Sava

2009 – Castra, Haifa

2010 – The Scots Hotels", Saint Andrew"s Glilee, Tiberias

2012 – Auditorium, Haifa

2012 – Karo Arts, Art, Haifa

2012 – The, Mishmar Ha"Emek.

Achievements

• 1972 – Education and Culture Ministers Prize for Arts Teachers 1976 - The Havatzelet Foundation for Sculptors 1977 - The Jordan Valley Regional Council"s Prize for the Arts.

Membership

She is a member of Kibbutz Bet Zera, in the Jordan Valley, where she lives and has her studio.