Rachel Rotenberg (born 1958) is a Canadian-born sculptor.Guggenheim Foundation
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Family life

Rotenberg was born and raised in

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.About Rachel Rotenberg
America-Israel Cultural Foundation After residing in different cities in the USA like Baltimore and Brooklyn, she immigrated to Israel in 2015.

Education

Rotenberg attended the School of Visual Arts, in New York, and

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, in Toronto where she received a BFA in 1981.Art in Embassies
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Career

Rotenberg has produced creative works since the early 1980s Sculpture Magazine
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InsideNoVa.com She also works with concrete and metal. Rotenberg was among the artists in included in the

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

of 2023, and has received two artist grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. She earned the Creative Baltimore Individual Artist Award in 2009.Baker Artist Portfolios
/ref> In 2023, her works are slated for display at the American University Museum, backed by artist grants, including ones from the Canada Council for the Arts. Museums where her work has been displayed include the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Delaware Art Museum, the McLean Project for the Arts,Give and Take: Building Form. Featuring Emilie Benes Brzezinski, Rachel Rotenberg, Foon Sham and Norma Schwartz
McLean Project for the ArtsExhibitions Open Through DEC 20
McLean Project for the Arts and the

Museum on the Seam Museum on the Seam is a socio-political contemporary art museum in Jerusalem, Israel. About the museum Founded in 1999, Museum on the Seam is housed in a neo-classical building designed by Andoni Baramki, a Palestinian Arab architect who built it ...

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

.Museum on the Seam
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rotenberg, Rachel 1958 births Living people 21st-century American women artists 21st-century American artists Jewish Canadian artists Jewish sculptors Jewish women artists Jewish women sculptors