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Yehudit Sasportas, Israeli, born 1969. Active in Israel and Germany.

Yehudit Sasportas was born in Ashdod in 1969. In her early works, like "Arisa" (Cradle, 1991) and "Trash Can Scale" (1996), she created 3 Dimensional structures based on images of household objects. In her work, "The Carpenter and the Seamstress" (2000), based on the architectural project of her parents apartment in the housing project in Ashdod, she create a large installation from dimensions that combined sculpture and drawing. In the 2000's, her works began to include images from nature, mainly forests and swamps of concrete and metaphorical dimensions. In addition, she began to work in the field of video. In 2007, she represent Israel at the Venice Biennale, Italy.

Education

1988-89 College for Visual Art, Beersheva
1989-93 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, B.F.A.
1993 Academy of Art and Science, Cooper Union Academy of Art, New York City, USA
1997-99 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, M.F.A.

Teaching

1993 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem

Awards And Prizes

1991 Rosa Markin Prize for Excellent Work, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Israel
1992 Nina Weiner Fellowship, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
1992 Ehud Alhanani Prize for Academic Excellence, Fine Art Department, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Israel
1993 Roman Steinmann Prize for Sculpture, Herzliya Museum of Art, Yad-Labanim, Herzliya
1994 Sharett Foundation Scholarship, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
1996 Prize for an Israeli Artist, Ministry of Education and Culture
1996 Kadishman Prize for Sculpture, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
1997 Ingeborg Bachman Scholarship, established by Anselm Kiefer, Wolf Foundation
1999 The Israeli Art Prize, The Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation
2000 Arthur Goldreich Foundation, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Israel
2003 Artist-in-Residence, Binz Foundation, Nairs, Switzerland
2003-2005, Chosen Artist, Israel Caltural Excellence Fondation (ICExcellence)
2004-2005, Artist-in-Residence, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Germany