Siona Shimshi
{{Short description|Israeli artist (1939–2018)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Infobox artist
| name = Siona Shimshi
| native_name = {{Nobold|{{Script/Hebrew|ציונה שמשי}}}}
| image = TEL AVIV PAINTER ZIONA SHIMSHI IN A "MASKIT" DRESS .jpg
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| caption = Shimshi in 1963
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1939|7|14}}
| birth_place = Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine
| death_date = {{death date and age|2018|10|16|1939|7|14}}
| death_place = Tel Aviv, Israel
| nationality = Israeli
| spouse = Jachin Hirsch (1934–2011)
| field = Painter, sculptor, textile designer
| training = Avni Institute, Alfred University, Greenwich House Pottery
| movement =
| works = 33 solo exhibitions, 50 group exhibitions, curator of 21 thematic exhibitions and the Israeli Internet Art Biennial (2012–2014)
| patrons = Collaborated with architects Dora Gad. Aba Elchanani, Rafael Blumenfeld, Heinz Penchel
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| influenced =
| awards = Arie El-Hanani: Prize for Art in Architecture (1988)
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| website ={{URL|art-sionashimshi.com}}
}}
Siona Shimshi (also "Ziona"; {{langx|he|ציונה שמשי}}; July 14, 1939 – October 16, 2018) was an Israeli painter, sculptor, ceramist, and textile designer.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R54YAAAAYAAJ&q=siona+Shimshi+1939 |title=Multicultural art activities kit: ready-to-use lessons and projects with 194 drawings, photos, and color prints|author= Dwila Bloom, Vincent Walter |year=1994 |isbn=9780876285879|access-date=August 3, 2011}}{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780313288036 |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780313288036/page/250 250] |title=Chronology of women's history |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=1994 |author= Kirstin Olsen|isbn=9780313288036 |access-date=August 3, 2011}}{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/womensbookofworl00onei |url-access=registration |quote=siona Shimshi 1939. |title=The Women's book of world records and achievements|publisher=Anchor Press/Doubleday |year=1979 |author=Lois Decker O'Neill |access-date=August 3, 2011}}
Early life
Siona Shimshi was born on July 14, 1939, in Tel Aviv, to Haya Rivka (Kuklanski) and Avraham Shimshi, who had immigrated to Mandate Palestine from Lithuania in 1933.{{cite web |url=http://www.imj.org.il/artcenter/default.asp?artist=278190&list=S |title=Artists' Information |publisher=Israel Museum Information Center for Israeli Art |access-date=August 3, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321180853/http://www.imj.org.il/artcenter/default.asp?artist=278190&list=S |archive-date=March 21, 2012 }}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kPdTAAAAMAAJ&q=siona+Shimshi+1939 |title=Crafts of Israel |year=1974 |author=Ruth Dayan, Wilburt Feinberg |isbn=9780025344204 |access-date=August 3, 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://www.art-sionashimshi.com/CV.aspx?type=CV |title=artsionashimshi.com |publisher=art-sionashimshi.com |access-date=August 3, 2011}} She married Jachin Hirsch, an Israeli filmmaker, in 1961.{{cite web|url=http://www.art-sionashimshi.com/CV.aspx?type=TimeLine |title=artsionashimshi.com |publisher=art-sionashimshi.com |access-date=August 3, 2011}}
She studied at the Avni Institute in Tel Aviv from 1956 to 1959, with Avigdor Stematsky, Yehezkel Streichman, and Moshe Mokady.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YG7MhIpBAeMC&pg=PA333 |title=Autour de l'art juif: encyclopédie des peintres, photographes et sculpteurs |publisher=Carnot |year= 2003|author=Adrian M. Darmon |isbn=9782848550114 |access-date=August 3, 2011}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gOrpAAAAMAAJ&q=siona+Shimshi+1939 |title=Art in Israel |year=1976|author=Ran Sheḥori |isbn=9780805236057 |access-date=August 3, 2011}} She also studied ceramics at Alfred University in New York, from 1959 to 1962, as well as at Greenwich House Pottery in New York City.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zBzkmRVQ2tYC&pg=PA310 |title=Ten thousand years of pottery |year=2000 |author=Emmanuel Cooper |isbn=0812235541 |access-date=August 3, 2011}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kPdTAAAAMAAJ&q=siona+Shimshi |title=Crafts of Israel |year=1974 |author= Ruth Dayan, Wilburt Feinberg|isbn=9780025344204 |access-date=August 3, 2011}}
Art career
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.{{cite news|last=Armon |first=Ellie |url=http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/video-art-pioneer-passes-away-at-77-1.8497 |title=Video art pioneer passes away at 77 |work=Haaretz |date=February 22, 2011 |access-date=August 3, 2011}}{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/1457856451.html?dids=1457856451:1457856451&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Mar+28%2C+2008&author=GIL+GOLDFINE&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=A+round+of+applause+for+nostalgia&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107143630/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/1457856451.html?dids=1457856451:1457856451&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Mar+28,+2008&author=GIL+GOLDFINE&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=A+round+of+applause+for+nostalgia&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 7, 2012 |title=A round of applause for nostalgia |work=The Jerusalem Post |date=March 28, 2008 |author=Gil Goldfine |access-date=August 3, 2011}}
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 to 1987.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OFJBAQAAIAAJ&q=siona+Shimshi |title=International handbook of universities and other institutions of higher education, Volume 9 |year=1983 |author=International Association of Universities |isbn=9783110097436 |access-date=August 3, 2011}}{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/99659022.html?dids=99659022:99659022&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Feb+22%2C+1991&author=Angela+Levine&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=DISTINCTIVE+POTTERY&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107143640/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/99659022.html?dids=99659022:99659022&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Feb+22,+1991&author=Angela+Levine&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=DISTINCTIVE+POTTERY&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 7, 2012 |title=Distinctive Pottery |work=The Jerusalem Post |date=February 22, 1991 |author=Angela Levine |access-date=August 3, 2011}}{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/64153538.html?dids=64153538:64153538&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=May+23%2C+1997&author=Meir+Ronnen&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=Crafty+Art&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107143651/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/64153538.html?dids=64153538:64153538&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=May+23,+1997&author=Meir+Ronnen&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=Crafty+Art&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 7, 2012 |title=Crafty Art |work=The Jerusalem Post |author=Meir Ronnen|date= May 23, 1997|access-date=August 3, 2011}} 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.{{cite web|last=Saar |first=Yuval |url=http://www.haaretz.com/dora-gad-s-private-sanctuary-1.257138 |title=Dora Gad's private sanctuary |work=Haaretz |date=March 15, 2011 |access-date=August 3, 2011}}
Among her creations are a work in wood that is exhibited in the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, a wall hanging at the Tel Aviv Hilton, a 1998 sculpture for Israel's 50th anniversary that is exhibited in Holon, glass walls at Kennedy Airport in New York City, and a 2004 portrait painting of Natan Alterman that appears on the facade of Tel Aviv City Hall.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/newartaroundworl00ingroh |quote=siona Shimshi. |title=New art around the world: painting and sculpture |publisher=H. N. Abrams |author1=Will Grohmann|author2= Sam Hunter |author2-link=Sam Hunter (art historian)|year=1966 |access-date=August 3, 2011}}
Awards
Death
Shimshi died in Tel Aviv on October 16, 2018, at the age of 79.{{cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/art/1.6570722 |title= האמנית הרב־תחומית ציונה שמשי מתה בגיל 79 |date=27 October 2018 |publisher=haaretz.co.il |language=he|access-date=7 September 2020}} She was buried at Yarkon Cemetery.
See also
References
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External links
- [http://art-sionashimshi.com Siona Shimshi website]
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=w5kVAQAAIAAJ&q=siona+Shimshi Siona Shimshi], ציונה שמשי, Julie M. Gallery (1990)
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