Zigi Ben-Haim 1988 bronze sculpture CHARIOT OF TIME

Fine Art : Sculptures

 

Beautiful bronze sculpture by American artist, Zigi Ben-Haim. Solid cast bronze with paint. Base measures 4.5 x 12 inches. 10 inches high and 21 inches long. Marquette for monumental sculpture CHARIOT OF TIME located at University of Maryland, College Park. Edition 30 of which this piece is 9/30. Signed and dated 1988 in base. Numbered and foundry stamp in base. Excellent condition with no damage or restoration.

Born November 28. 1945, Baghdad, Iraq Lives & Works in Israel and New York City

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 – 72 California College of Arts, Oakland, California, USA 1966 – 70 The Avni Institute of Fine Arts, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Grants & Awards

2007 The Emily Harvey Foundation, Fellowship to Venice, Italy. 2004 DAAD Fellowship to Berlin, Germany. 2000 Niche Award for sculpture. 1996 Pollack Krasner Foundation Grant. 1992 Guest Artist Fellowship, Artists Union, U.S.S.R. 1990 Pollack Krasner Foundation Grant. 1990 MacDowell Colony Residency, NH, USA 1984 National Endowment for the Arts. 1983 New York State Council on the Arts, A.R.E.A. Project. 1982 Muestra Int. de Obra Grafica, Bilbao, Spain. 1970 Ministry of Culture, Israel. 1966 – 1970 America Israel Culture Foundation, Israel.

Upcoming

2008 Traveling Retrospective, Tel-Aviv Museum, Israel, Fall 2008

Solo Exhibitions

2007 Industrial Baroque, Painting, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, N.Y. (Catalogue) 2005 90 Days of Berlin: Sculpture, Paintings & Drawings, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY, USA (catalogue) 2004 – 05 Journey with Me Sculpture, German Embassy, Washington. D.C., USA (catalogue) 2003 – 04 Splendid Step Sculpture, Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, New York, NY, USA (commissioned by the City of New York/Parks & Recreation) 2003 Journey with Me Sculpture, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ, USA (catalogue) 2003 Painting and Sculpture, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY, USA (catalogue) 2002 Journey With Me Sculpture 1984-2000, in collaboration with Laumeier Sculpture Park, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA (catalogue) 2000 Blue Highway, Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel (catalogue) 2000 Summer Blue drawings and paintings, ZDF, New York, NY, USA 2000 Journey With Me Sculpture, Ball State University Museum of Art, Muncie, IN, USA, (catalogue) 1999 Sculpture and Drawing, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV, USA (catalogue) 1999 Paintings 1992-1996, Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, IL, USA 1998 Journey With Me Sculpture 1984-1997, Cedarhurst Sculpture Park, Mt.Vernon, IL, USA (catalogue) 1998 Zigi Ben-Haim, And Now public Sculptures, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel 1997 – 98 Journey With Me Sculpture 1984-1997, Fordham University, Sculpture Garden at Lincoln Center, New York, NY, USA (catalogue) 1997 Paintings & Drawings, Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel 1996 Leaf Path, Curated by Maggie Nolan, Ann Harper Gallery, Amagansett, NY, USA 1995 Windows '95, ZDF German T.V., New York, NY, USA 1994 Benshahn Galleries, WPC Collage, Wayne, NJ, USA (catalogue). 1994 Scattered Echo, Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel (catalogue). 1989 – 91 The Dance, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA (traveling exhibition, (catalogue). 1989 Works on Paper, Gallery Andreas Tornberg, Lund, Sweden 1987 Jewish Museum Sculpture Court, New York, NY, USA 1986 Walking Field, Project Room, P.S. 1, Queens, NY, USA 1986 Façade Gallery, Paris, France 1985 Baumgartner Gallery, Washington, DC, USA 1984 Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (catalogue) 1984 Works on paper, Gallery Andreas Tornberg, Lund, Sweden 1980 Annemarie De Kruijff, Paris, France. 1978 Munro Gallery, Hamburg, West Germany. 1977 Bertha Urdang Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel (catalogue). 1976 Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, New York, USA (catalogue). 1975 Marquoit Galleries, San Fransisco, CA, USA 1974 California State University, San Fransisco, CA, USA

Group Exhibitions

2007 Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel 2005 The Kreeger Museum, Washington D.C., USA 2004 Sculpture, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ, USA 2004 Enchantment Wave Hill, N.Y., USA 2004 The International Armory Show, Stefan Stux Gallery Booth, Pier 90, New York, NY, USA (catalogue) 2003 Wandering Library, International Artists’ Museum, Venice, Italy 2003 Works from the Collection, Jewish Museum, New York, NY, USA 2003 The International Armory Show, Stefan Stux Gallery Booth, Pier 90, New York, NY, USA (catalogue) 2002 Spirit of New York, 25 NY artists, 55 Wall St., New York, NY, USA 2002 Reactions, Exit Art, New York, NY, USA 1999 Works from the ‘70’s, Tel-Aviv Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel 1998 Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel 1998 Small Paintings, Wainscott Gallery, Wainscott, NY, USA 1996 Paper, Wainscott Gallery, Wainscott, NY, USA 1996 Blue & White, Binet Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel 1995 Works of the '70's, Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel 1994 Basel International Art Fair, Vera Munro Gallery, Basel, Switzerland. 1993 Action Traces, Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel. 1993 Monumental Propaganda, ICI Traveling Show, USA/Russia. 1993 Sculpture Biennale, Ein Hod, Israel (catalogue), Drawing, B4A Gallery, New York, NY, USA 1992 Invitational, Bill Base Gallery, New York, NY, USA 1991 Art Cologne, Chelouche Gallery, Cologne, Germany. 1991 Collage: New Applications, curated by William Zimmer, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, NY, USA 1990 Drawings, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY, USA 1989 From the Frederick Weisman Collection, Neuberger Museum, New York, NY, USA 1989 Art Aluminum, Muse Le Technigue, Montreal, Canada. 1988 Embodiment Personification, Art In General, New York, NY, USA 1988 New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ, USA 1988 The Candor of Form, 1 World Trade Center, New York, NY, USA 1988 Bali Miller Gallery, New York, NY, USA 1988 Nina Freudenheim Gallery, New York, NY, USA 1987 Bleecker Street Gallery, New York, NY, USA 1987 Constructs, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY, USA 1986 Paper Now, Cleveland Museum, Cleveland, Ohio, USA 1986 Snug Harbor, Outdoor Sculpture, Staten Island, NY, USA 1986 Transculture Transmedia, Exit Art Gallery, New York, NY, USA 1986 Monumental Drawings: Works by 22 Contemporary American Artists, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, USA (catalogue) 1985 Public Art in the Eighties, curated by Jean E. Feinberg Jamie Szoke Gallery, New York, NY, USA 1985 From the Museum Collection, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, USA 1985 Art & the Environment, Lever House, New York, New York, USA (catalogue) 1985 Legacy of Immigrant artists, Bass museum, Miami, FL, USA 1985–87 2nd International Shoebox Sculpture – traveling exhibition, University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii (catalogue). 1985-86 Immigrant Artists/ American Experience 1940 – 85– traveling exhibition, Independent Curators Inc. (catalogue). 1984-89 Frederick R. Weisman Foundation for Traveling Art Exhibitions (catalogue). 1983-85 Groovy Grove – Sculpture on Shoreline Sites, A.R.E.A. Project, Wards Island, NY, USA (catalogue; via NYS Council For The Arts Grant). 1983 Ornaments as Sculpture, Sculpture Center, New York, NY, USA 1983 C.D.S. Gallery, New York, NY, USA (catalogue). 1983 Blackfish Gallery, Drawings, Portland, Oregon, USA 1983 Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA 1983 Tel-Hai, Contemporary Art Meeting, Israel (catalogue). 1983 Bayer Museum, Evanston, Illinois, USA 1983 U.S.A. Today Newspaper Company, Washington D.C., USA (catalogue). 1983 Varieties of Sculptural Ideas, Drawings & Maquettes, Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, NY, USA 1982 The New Explosion: Paper Arts, Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hampstead, NY, USA (catalogue). 1982 Pair Group, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ, USA 1982 International Sculpture Conference, Speaker & Exhibitor, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, USA 1982 Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel. 1982 Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, NY, USA 1982 Arteder 82, Muestra International de Obra Grafica, Bilbao, Spain (catalogue). 1981 Gallery Mors Moessa, Gothenburg, Sweden. 1981 Wall Paper/ Roompaper", Laica, Los Angeles, CA, USA 1981 Basel International Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland. 1981 Tel-Aviv Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel. 1981 The Work of Twenty Contemporary Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA, USA 1980 Basel, International Art Fair, Vera Munro Gallery, Basel, Switzerland. 1980 With Paper About Paper, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA (catalogue). 1980 Forecast of the Season, Touchstone, New York, NY, USA 1979 Basel, International Art Fair, Vera Munro Gallery, Basel, Switzerland. 1979 Gallery Loyse Oppenheim, Nyon, Switzerland. 1979 Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel. 1979 Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada. 1979 Alexandra Monett, Brussels, Belgium. 1978 Touchstone Gallery, New York, NY, USA 1978 International Kunstmarkt, Düsseldorf, West Germany. 1978 Six Artists, Sara Levi Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel. 1978 Notebook, Gordon Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel (catalogue). 1978 Location/Direction/78, Rammi Nechoshtan Museum, Israel (catalogue). 1978 Basel International Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland (catalogue). 1978 Work with Paper, Alexandra Monett Gallery, Brussels, Belgium. 1978 Paper, The Dayton Art Institute, Ohio, USA (catalogue). 1978 The Ohio State University Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA 1978 Davis Art Gallery, Akron, Ohio, USA (catalogue). 1977 New Acquisitions, Tel-Aviv Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel. 1977 Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA 1977 Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, NY, USA 1975 Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

Selected Public Collections 2007 Knights of Starry Skies, Commissioned by Israel Air Force Center Foundation 2006 Tribute to Columbia, Among the Stars and the Angels, Commissioned by NASA Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA Pfizer Company Collection, New York, NY, USA Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA, USA Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA New School, New York, NY, USA University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel. Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, USA Malmo Museum, Malmo, Sweden. Jewish Museum, New York, NY, USA Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel. Ghent Museum, Ghent, Belgium. American National Gallery, Washington D.C., USA Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, NY, USA Buscaglia-Castellanni, University Museum, Lewiston, NY, USA Dan Eilat Hotel, Eilat, Israel. Andin International, New York, NY, USA International Paper Company, New York, NY, USA World Bank, Washington D.C., USA Davis Polk & Wordwell, New York, NY, USA Westminster Bank, New York, NY, USA Israel Embassy, Washington D.C., USA Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, USA Rikers Hill Sculpture Park, Livingston, NJ, USA Bank Discount, Ramat Aviv, Israel Royal Canadian Bank, New York, NY, USA Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY, USA Bank Leumi USA, Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, USA Bank Leumi USA, Los Angeles, CA, USA Bank Leumi USA, Palo Alto, CA, USA Bank Leumi USA, Aventura, FL, USA Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, USA

Selected Public Outdoor Sculpture

Splendid Step, The Tel-Aviv museum Sculpture Garden, Tel-Aviv, Israel German Embassy Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, USA On the Main Road, Ra’anana, Israel Sea of Time, Ashkelon, Israel The Bright Side of Tomorrow, School, Gates and Fences, Ma’ale Hacdomim, Israel Chariot of Time, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, U.S.A. The Dance, Art Acres Sculpture Park, Boca Raton, Florida, U.S.A. On Borrowed Wings, Dan Eilat Hotel, Eilat, Israel. A Note in the Green, Tel-Aviv, Israel. Legion of Titans, Tel-Hai, Israel. Beyond the Halting Step of Deeds, Riverdale, New York, USA Blooming Stone, Frederick Weisman Foundation of Art, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A. Rolling Rock, Rikers Hill Sculpture Garden, Livingston, New Jersey, U.S.A. Vintage Breeze, The Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, NY, U.S.A. Wind Hunter, Jerusalem, Israel. Rising Path, Phillip Berman Museum, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA, U.S.A. Rise Up, Zihron Yaakov, Israel.

Selected Bibliography

2005 Schaff, Trine, Leaving the Suface, The Jerusalem Post, September 9, 2005. (read more) 2005 Amit, Eitan, A Hand to Space, Yediot Aharonot, July 26, 2005. (read more) 2005 Wilson, Beth, Zigi Ben-Haim, Exhibition Catalogue, May 2005 2005 Ronen, Merav, We Live in the Studio, Yediot Aharonot, March 25, 2005 2005 Twig, Interview, The Week in Germany, March 2, 2005. (read more) 2004 Wei, Lilly Grounds for Sculpture, Sculpture Magazine, May 2004. (read more) 2003 Wei, Lilly, Sculpture and Painting Exhibition at Stefan Stux Gallery, catalogue. 2003 Adelson, Fred B., Sculptures share space with Strutting Peacocks, The New York Times, Sunday, June 22, 2003. (read more) 2003 Rivera, F.R., Grounds for Sculpture, In the Galleries, June 20, 2003. (read more) 2003 Web Writer, Outdoor Art steps into Dag Hammarskjold plaza, The Daily Plant, November 25, 2003. (read more) 2003 Grace, Matthew Ian, Small Steps for Artist, Splendid Step for NYC., New York Observer, October 20, 2003. (read more) 2003 Bischoff, Dan, Art park blooms in spring, Sunday Star Ledger, May 25, 2003. (read more) 2001 Schull, Mike, Organic Contradiction, Lifestyles, Thursday, May 18, 2001. (read more) 2000 Gaff, Jan, Touring the art of Zigi Ben-Haim, The Starr Press, Friday, May 26, 2000 2000 Talmore, Daniella, Curator Blue Sea of Water catalogue. 2000 Schull Mike, Interactive Forces, Ball State Daily News, August 17, 2000. (read more) 1998 Morgan, Robert, Zigi Ben-Haim Sculpture, Review Magazine, April 26, 1998. (read more) 1998 Braff, Phyllis, Subjective and Abstract Flow in many Directions, The New York Times, May 3, 1998 1997 Thaul Wechter, Dr, Vivian. Curator “Journey With Me” sculptures 1984 – 1987, (catalogue) 1996 Slivka, Rose C.S., From the Studio, The East Hampton Star, September 26, 1996. 1996 Braff, Phyllis, Varied Work, Veering Far From Traditional, The New York Times, September 8, 1996. (read more)

1994 Zimmer, William, Three Shows that Demonstrate the Importance of Imagination, The New York Times, October 9, 1994. 1993 Ronen, Meir, Zigi Ben-Haim at Chelouche Gallery, Jerusalem Post, 1993. 1992 Artist Love New York, Review, New York Post, 1992. 1992 Levine Angela, Sculpture in Nature, The Jerusalem Post Magazine, 1992. (read more)

1991 Cologne International Art Fair, Cologne, Germany, Exhibition Catalogue, 1991. 1990 Brenson, Michael, Force of Nature, The New York Times, July 27, 1990. (read more) 1989 Bernstock, Judith E., The Dance, Sculpture Magazine, July/August 1989. (read more) 1989 Zimmer, William, The Candor of Form, Sculpture Magazine, November 1989. 1989 Art in New York, Idea Magazine, published in Tokyo, Japan, August 1989. 1988 Kimmelman, Michael, Sculptors Make A Case of Expression, The New York Times, August 19, 1988 1987 Brenson, Michael, Critics’ Choices, The New York Times, May 3, 1987 . (read more) 1987 Lutto, Rebecca Schlam, Artists Pump Life Into Shapes, Jewish Standard, Jan 2, 1987. 1987 Malarcher, Patricia, Paper's Third Dimension In Paramus, The New York Times, Jan 18, 1987 1986 Kotik, Charlotta, Monumental Drawings: Works by 22 Contemporary American Artists, Exhibition Catalogue, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, September, 1986 Exhibition Catalogue, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, September, 1986. (read more) 1985 Marter, Joan, Contradictory Worlds: The Art of Zigi Ben-Haim, Arts Magazine, November 1986. (read more) 1985 Maier, Sue, Using Cast-Off Materials to Create Art, Cleveland Jewish News, Dec. 12, 1985 1985 Brenson, Michael, Environmental Works, The New York Times, March 1, 1985. 1985 Coleman, Nicols, Tricks of the Abstract, The Washington Post, March 7, 1985. 1985 Kohen, Helen L., Bass Show Explores Dual Legacy of Immigrant Artists, The Miami Herald, November 10, 1985 1985 Frederick R. Weisman Foundation of Art, catalogue, 1985. 1984 The Second International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, catalogue, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, 1984. 1984 Bar-Kadma, Emanuel, The Israeli Experience of the 'Wind Hunter', Yediot Acharonot, October 1984. 1984 Brenson, Michael, Animals Creep Back into Today's Art, The New York Times, June 24, 1984. 1984 Dee Jonathan, Art for Our Sake, Promenade Magazine, March 1984. 1984 Raynor, Vivien, Works Made of Paper Not On It, The New York Times, April 22 1984 1984 Scarborough, Jessica, Sculptural Paper, Fiber Arts, April 1984. 1983 Zalmona, Yigal, Zigi Ben-Haim, 1984, exhibition catalogue, Israel Museum, Oct. 1983 1983 Bannon, Anthony, Artistry in Paper, The Buffalo News, October 16, 1983. 1983 Barzel, Amnon, "Tel-Hai '83, Contemporary Meeting," exhibition catalogue, Tel-Hai, Israel, September1983 1983 Ben-Haim, Tsipi, Contemporary Art Meeting Tel-Hai '83, Sculpture Sculptors International Magazine, November 1983. 1983 Brenson, Michael, Sculpture of Summer is in Full Bloom, The New York Times, July 8, 1983. (read more) 1983 Brouwer, Bert, Paper Transformed, exhibition catalogue, Turman Gallery, Indiana State University, March 1983. 1983 Silverman, Dorthea M., "Sculpture on Shoreline Sites," exhibition catalogue, Ward's Island, New York, June 1983. 1983 Stark, Joanna, Ben-Haim: Art in the Urban Forest, The Israel Economist, April 1983. 1983 Tully, Judd, Paper Chase, Portfolio Magazine, May 1983. 1982 On or About Paper, exhibition catalogue, U.S.A. Today Headquarters, October 16, 1982. 1982 Flomenhaft, Eleanor, The New Explosion, exhibition catalogue, Fine Art Museum of Long Island, November 1982. 1982 Harrison, Helen A., Exploring the Possibilities of Paper, The New York Times, December 1982, 1982 Zimmer, William, Zigi Ben-Haim: Work In Progress, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of Hamilton, October, 1982. 1982 Arteder '82 Muestra Internacional de Obra Grafica, exhibition catalogue, 1982 1981 Menzies, Neal, Expanding Paper's Potential, Art Week Magazine, October 1981 1981 Ronnen, Meir, Order with a rope, The Jerusalem Post, Sept. 25, 1981. (read more) 1980 Kotik, Charlotta, With Paper About Paper, exhibition catalogue, Albright Knox Art Gallery, September 1980. 1980 Rudy, Stephen, Tracing the Difference: An Introduction to the Work of Zigi Ben-Haim, April 1978 1978 Nechoshtan, Rammi, Location/Direction/78, exhibition catalogue, Israel, 1978. 1978 Location/Direction/78, review, Heute Kunst, May 1978. 1977 Mainardi, Pat, Arts Magazine, February 1977. (read more) 1977 Zigi Ben-Haim, exhibition catalogue, Bertha Urdang Gallery, July 1977. 1975 Frackmen, Noel, review, Arts Magazine, May 1975 1975 Frankenstein, Alfred, 2 Generations of Masters, San Francisco Chronicle, January 30, 1975. (read more) 1974 Ben-Haim’s oil Paintings, San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 31, 1974.

Item ID: C-3