Hedva Ser

Hedva Ser was born in 1948 in Petah Tikva

Hedva Ser was born on September 20, 1948, in Petah Tikva, where she grew up. Her parents were Holocaust survivors.

From 1964 to 1966 she studied art in the youth department of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. In 1966 she moved to Paris and studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, then at the Camondo center from 1967 to 1970. In 1970 she studied at the Hornsey College of Art in London.

After painting, she turned to tapestry and developed a relief technique of her own. In 1975 she met the Argentine sculptor Alicia Penalba, and from 1982 she worked only in sculpture. She has carried out large projects in France and commissions in Switzerland, Israel and the United States.

Her solo shows were held in Athens, Antibes, Harvard University, Aubusson, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Paris and Milan. Since 2007 her sculpture The Tree of Peace has traveled to sites around the world as part of her work for dialogue between cultures. In 2017 she became a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador and Special Envoy for Cultural Diplomacy.

She lives in Paris and has two children.