Zehava Messer, acrylic on canvas, 100 by 70 cm, signed
Born in Czechia
Living and Working in Israel
B.A. in Literature and Bible Studies at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem
1978 - 80 Studies at the Art School “Kalischer”, Tel Aviv
1985 – 87 Studies at the “Avni”-Institute, Tel Aviv
1988 Internationale Sommerakademie Fuer Bildende Kunst, Salzburg
1993 Grant for “Cite Internationale des Arts”, Paris
Selected Solo-Exhibitions
1988
1989 “Artist’s House”, Jerusalem
1990 “Jerusalem Theatre”, Jerusalem
1991 “Ephrat Gallery”, Tel Aviv
1992 “Tiroche Gallery”, Tel Aviv
1993 “Kunstsalon Wolfsberg”, Zurich, Switzerland
“Tiroche Gallery”, Tel Aviv
1994 Gallery “Cite Internationale des Arts”, Paris
1995 “Tiroche Gallery”, Tel Aviv
1997 “Nora Gallery”, Jerusalem
2000 Museum Arad, Israel (Catalogue)
“Chan” Museum, Ashqelon, Israel (Catalogue)
2003 “Mabat” Gallery, Tel Aviv (Catalogue)
2004 Man is Not the Tree of the Field, Museum Akko, Israel (Catalogue)
Selected Group Exhibitions
1986 Museum Bat Yam, Tel Aviv
1987 “Yeziramon” Art in the Desert, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel
1988 “Israel Art Week”, Israel Festival, Jerusalem
“Colours”, “Kunstsalon Wolfsberg”, Zurich, Switzerland
1990 “Pastels”, Museum Petach-Tikva, Israel
“Omanut L’aam”, Itinerant Exhibition in Israel
“Israel Art Month”, Israel Festival, Jerusalem (Catalogue)
1991 “Omanut L’aam”, Itinerary Exhibition in Israel
1992 “Mabat Gallery”. Tel Aviv
“The Envelope”, Gallery, “Haute Pave”, Paris
1993 “Long Shadows”, Israel Painters Association (Catalogue)
“A Place for Contemporary Modern Art at Daphna Naor”
“Contemporaines”- Grand Palais, Paris (Catalogue)
Gallery “Sara Conforty”, Jaffo-Tel Aviv
1994 The Second International Female Biennale, Stockholm
1995 “Gallery Yadaim”, Jaffo-Tel Aviv (Catalogue)
1996 Museum of Man and Environment, Petach-Tikva, Israel
“Mini-Artura”, Gubbio, Italy (Catalogue)
1999 “A Harvest of Pomegranates”, Museum Ashdod, Israel
(Catalogue)
“Talking to a Wall”, Russischer Hof, Bad Kissingen, Germany
(Catalogue)
2005 “Masks”, Museum Ashdod
2008 "Strata of Memory, Israeli Artists "Second Generation" of the Holocaust", Artists House, Tel Aviv. (Catalogue)
2009 Anne Frank in the Artists Eyes, Peter Wilhelm Art Project, Budapest, Hungary ( Catalogue )
2014 Art Works, Israeli Young Artists, Praterinsel –Munich
2016 Art Works, Israeli Young Artists, Frankfurt
2015 The Inheritance, The Holocaust in the Artworks of Second Generation Israeli Artists, by Batia Brutin, Publication Yadvashem
Zehava Eisman-Rubin-Masserספר מחקר ועיון pages 59, 65 , 67-71 , 209-211 , 302
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