Ran Morin

Ran Morin is an Israeli sculptor known for works that combine living trees with modern sculpture materials.

born 1958Sculptures with living treesThe Olive Columns parkThe Floating Orange Tree in JaffaThe Creative Preservation approach

Occupation: sculptor
Education: School of Visual Arts

Ran Morin was born in 1958 in Jerusalem

Ran Morin was born in Jerusalem in 1958. He is the son of Professor Yosef Morin, a soil researcher.

In the mid-1970s he built a computer model of the illusion of motion in abstract forms at the Weizmann Institute. In the early 1980s he turned to combining nature, mainly trees, with modern sculpture materials. His first such work, Fig Tree and Steel, was made in 1982.

During the 1980s he studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York and showed work in galleries there. In 1991 the Olive Columns park near Kibbutz Ramat Rachel opened, with 3 olive trees on 15 meter columns. Other works include a hanging orange tree in Jaffa and sculptures for the Wine Road in Zikhron Ya'akov.

In the 1990s he lived in Rome and developed an approach he called Creative Preservation for heritage sites. He later applied it at sites in Jerusalem and, in 2022, at a temple in southern China. He lives in New York.