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Ronit Baranga

Ronit Baranga is an Israeli sculptor who makes figurative, realistic works in ceramics and has exhibited since 2004.

born 1973Ceramic sculptureTableware with human fingers and mouthsTaking part in Banksy's Dismaland

Born: 4 April 1973, Haifa
Occupation: sculptor

Ronit Baranga was born in 1973 in Haifa

Ronit Baranga was born in Haifa on April 4, 1973. As a child she moved to Kfar Saba, and later she moved to Zikhron Ya'akov.

In 1990 she studied figurative drawing with Rachel Shavit. After serving as an officer in the Air Force, she studied psychology and Hebrew literature at the University of Haifa. She later studied art history at Tel Aviv University and abstract painting with John Bell.

From 2000 to 2004 she studied at the HaMidrasha art school at Beit Berl, where she began working with clay. Her sculptures often give everyday objects, such as cups and dishes, human mouths and fingers.

She has shown work in Israel and abroad, including exhibitions in China in 2011 and Taiwan in 2012, where she won prizes, and at the Triennale in Milan in 2012. In 2015 she took part in Banksy's exhibition Dismaland. In 2010 she returned with her partner and their 3 children to Zikhron Ya'akov, where her studio is located.