Siona Shimshi
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Siona Shimshi 1963
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| Born | 1939 Tel Aviv |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Education | Avni Institute, Alfred University, Greenwich House Pottery |
| Known for | Painter, sculptor,[textile designer] |
| Notable work | 30 years active academic career. 33 one person exhibitions Israel & abroad. Over 50 group shows'. Curator of 21 thematic exhibitions. Curator of the Israeli Internet Art Biennial 2012-2014. |
| Spouse(s) | Jachin Hirsch (1934-2011) |
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| Website | art-sionashimshi.com |
| Patron(s) | Collaborated with The Architects: Dora Gad. Aba Elchanani. Rafael Blumenfeld. Heinz Penchel. |
Siona Shimshi (also "Ziona"; Hebrew: ציונה שמשי born 1939) is an Israeli painter, sculptor, ceramist, and textile designer.
Shimshi was born in Tel Aviv, to Haya Rivka (Kuklanski) and Avraham Shimshi, who had immigrated to Mandate Palestine from Lithuania in 1933. She married Jachin Hirsch, an Israeli filmmaker, in 1961.
She studied at the Avni Institute in Tel Aviv from 1956–59, with Avigdor Stematsky, Yehezkel Streichman, and Moshe Mokady. She also studied ceramics at Alfred University in New York, from 1959–62, as well as at Greenwich House Pottery in New York City.
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.
Shimshi was head of the Ceramic Design Department and taught as a professor at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, from 1979–87. In 1979, she designed the set for a performance of A Simple Story by Shmuel Yosef Agnon for the Habimah Theater in Tel Aviv.
In 1993–94, she was the curator of an exhibition of Dora Gad, in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
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