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Yehudit Sasportas

Yehudit Sasportas is an Israeli artist working in sculpture, drawing and installation, who represented Israel at the Venice Biennale in 2007.

born 1969Large sculptural drawing installationsIsrael's pavilion at Venice 2007The exhibition Seven Winters

Occupation: sculptor, painter, draftsperson, artist
Education: Bezalel Academy of Art and Design

Yehudit Sasportas was born in 1969 in Ashdod

Yehudit Sasportas was born in Ashdod in 1969. She works in Israel and Germany.

She studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, earning a B.F.A. in 1993 and an M.F.A. in 1999. She also studied at the Cooper Union in New York.

Her early works, such as Cradle from 1991, were three-dimensional structures based on household objects. The Carpenter and the Seamstress, an installation based on the plan of her parents' apartment in Ashdod, was her first major work shown outside Israel. She has taught at Bezalel since 1993.

Later her work turned to images of nature, mainly forests and swamps, and she began working in video. She represented Israel in Istanbul in 1999 and at the Venice Biennale in 2007 with The Guardians of the Threshold. In 2013 the Israel Museum showed her solo exhibition Seven Winters, based on years of research in a swamp in northwest Germany.

Milestones in Yehudit Sasportas's life

1993
Earned a B.F.A. from Bezalel.
1997
Received the Ingeborg Bachmann Scholarship.
1999
Represented Israel at the Istanbul Biennale and won the Gottesdiener prize.
2000
Created The Carpenter and the Seamstress.
2007
Represented Israel at the Venice Biennale.
2013
Showed Seven Winters at the Israel Museum.
2024
Received the Zila Yaron Prize.