Moshe Zabari (born 1935, in Jerusalem) is an Israeli artist known for his silver Judaica. He studied under Ludwig Yehuda Wolpert and David Gumbel at the

Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design ( he, בצלאל, אקדמיה לאמנות ועיצוב) is a public college of design and art located in Jerusalem. Established in 1906 by Jewish painter and sculptor Boris Schatz, Bezalel is Israel's oldes ...

in Jerusalem. Zabari was artist-in-residence for almost three decades at New York's

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. He returned to his native Israel in the 1980s. He is known for his

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approach, a reviewer described his 1998 sculpture, "Death by Stoning," as "elegant and beautiful," despite describing a "terrible act of violence." In 1990 he was awarded the Jesselson Prize for Contemporary Judaica Design. In 2015 Zabari was honoured with a Retrospective at the Jerusalem Biennale.

Museum exhibitions

* ''Homecoming to the Holy Land: New Works by Moshe Zabari,'' Berman Museum of Art at

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, 1999. * ''Homecoming to the Holy Land: New Work by Moshe Zabari,'' Skirball Museum, 1998.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Zabari, Moshe Israeli male sculptors 1935 births Living people Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design alumni