1939-2014 Israel

Lived in Kiryat Ono and Tel Aviv, worked in Kiryat Ono and Ashdod.

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1971–1975  Studied at the Higher Institute of Painting (later the Kalisher School of Art), Tel Aviv

1975–1976  Studied lithography, etching, and screenprint at the Tel Aviv Artists' Studios

Selected Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

1978 Third Floor Gallery, Jaffa, Israel

‍1979 Mabat Gallery, Tel Aviv

1980 Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv

1981 Arts Pavilion, Yarkon Park, Tel Aviv

1984 "Paper + Script" (with Poet Yona Wallach), Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv

1986 Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv

1988 "Human State," Herzliya Museum, Herzliya , Israel

1990 "Blue Installation," Arad Museum; Herzliya Museum

‍1993 "The Seventh Banquet," The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel

1995 "Condemned to Play," The Joseph Constant Gallery, Ramat Gan, Israel

2002 "Beyond the Blue," Tower of David Museum, Jerusalem

2005 "Sculpture as Theater," The Akko International Fringe Theater Festival, Acre, Israel

2007 "Sculpture as Theater," ArtMill, Szentendre, Hungary

2011 "Written on Cloth: Ofra Zimbalista Hosting Poet Agi Mishol," Office in Tel Aviv Gallery, Tel Avi

2012 "Protected Space," The Artists' House, Tel Aviv

2015 "Ofra Zimbalista in Blue," Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Magistrate Court Bridge, Tel Aviv

2016 "The Grand Spectacle," The Open Museums, Tefen and Omer Industrial Parks, Israel

Group Exhibitions

1977 "Five Artists: Drawing and Lithography," Artists and Sculptors Association, Tel Aviv

1978 "Young Artists Biennale," Haifa Museum of Modern Art

1979 "Five Artists, Five Countries," Galerie Bargera, Cologne, Germany

1980 "White on White," Haifa Museum of Modern Art

1981 International Painting Festival, Château Musée Grimaldi, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France

1982 "Tribute to Aryeh Margoshilski," Haifa Museum of Modern Art

1982 "Touch," The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

1983 "Nature as Inspiration and Pretext," Haifa Museum of Modern Art

1985 "Blessings," The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

1986 "Miniatures," Del Bello Gallery, Toronto

1987 "Towards a New Israeli Realism," Beit Uri and Rami Nehostan Museum, Kibbutz Ashdot Yaakov Meuchad, Israel

1987 "The Sacrifice of Isaac in Israeli Art," The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel

1988 "The Border of Peace: An Israeli-Palestinian Artists Gathering in Givat Haviva," Peace Gallery, Givat Haviva Art Center, Israel

1994 "Tel Hai 94: Contemporary Art Meeting," The Arts Institute, Tel Hai, Israel

1997 Sculpture Garden for Coexistence and Peace, Kaukab Abu al-Hija (in collaboration with Beit Hagefen – Arab-Jewish Cultural Center, Haifa)

2002 "A Wall of My Own: Israeli Art, a Selection from the Benno Kalev Collection," Tel Aviv Museum of Art

2010 "Brown Earth," Umm el-Fahem Art Gallery, Israel

2014 "The Blessing and the Curse" (reconstruction of "Paper + Script"), Hansen House, Jerusalem

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Grants and Awards

1974 Grant for Art Studies, Israel Ministry of Education and Culture

1981 Golden Palette Award, festival international de la peinture, Château Musée Grimaldi, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France

1990 Project Completion Award, Israel Ministry of Education and Culture

1992 Cylinder Prize in memory of Zeev Yosifon, Omanut LaAm

1995 Film Project Fellowship, Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, Tel Aviv