Siona Shimshi

Siona Shimshi (also "Ziona";

Shimshi was born in Tel Aviv, to Haya Rivka (Kuklanski) and Avraham Shimshi, who had immigrated to Mandate Palestine from Lithuania in 1933.^[1][4][5][6] She married Jachin Hirsch, an Israeli filmmaker, in 1961.^[7]

She studied at the

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.^[12][13]

Shimshi was head of the Ceramic Design Department and taught as a professor at the

In 1993–94, she was the curator of an exhibition of Dora Gad, in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.^[4][17]

Among her creations are a work in wood that is exhibited in the

Shimshi was awarded the 1988 Arie El Hanani Prize by the Joshua Rabinowitz Foundation for Arts, for her sculpture in Goren Goldstein Park in Tel Aviv.[4]

Death

Shimshi died in Tel Aviv on October 16, 2018, at the age of 79.^[19] She was buried at Yarkon Cemetery.

See also

• Israeli ceramics

References