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Yemima Ergas, Israeli, Born in 1942.

Yemima Ergas Vroman was born in Jerusalem in 1942. Her father was Akiva Vroman, a well-known geologist and Israel Prize recipient and her mother was the pianist, Gonny Vroman. In 1950 she and her family moved to Haifa. From 1962-1964 she lived on Kibbutz Netiv HaLamed Hey as part of her army service in Nahal. Her first art teachers were Sima Salonim and Rephael Muhar. In the late 1960s she studied pottery in Bezalel and used clay material in her works up until the late 1970s. Between 1977-1979 she lived in New York in the United States. When she returned to Israel she focused her work on figurative sketching and observational drawing. The main subjects in her work were industrial structures, her studio space and portraiture. From 1999-2009 she was a senior member of the Jerusalem Artists' Council and the Chairperson of the Artists' House exhibition committee. In 2004 she was a co-founder of the joint gallery space "Agrippas 12" and was a member until 2012.

Education

1965-68 Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem, Department of Ceramics
1977-79 Pratt Institute, New York City, USA

Awards And Prizes

1973 Prize, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Prize for Design
1990 Grant, Israel Electric Corporation
1990-91, Artist-in-residence, The Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
1992-96, Grant, Israel Electric Corporation
2000 Artist-in-Residence, Ohio Arts Council
2008 Artist-in-Residence, SIM, Reykjavik, Iceland
2015 Award, The Council of Art and Culture at the National Lottery
2017 Mordechai Ish-Shalom Prize, Jerusalem Artists' House, Jerusalem