Ruth spent 25 years raising her family and working in research, art and design. Since 1997 she has been a docent at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, leading tours in all departments including the Dead Sea Scrolls, art and archaeology. In parallel, she has been developing her own work as an artist and now creates sculptures, paintings, video art, photography and installation pieces. Ruth has exhibited and sold her art in Israel, Europe and North America.
Born in London (1947), lives and works in Jerusalem
ruthschreiber.com
EDUCATION
2003-05 Ceramic & Glass Design, Bezalel Academy, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
1998-01 MA Museum Studies, Leicester University, UK
1988-95 Diploma History of Art, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
1981-84 BA Psychology, Empire State College, State University of New York, USA
1972-74 History of Art, Stanford University, USA
1966-69 BSc Economics & International Relations, LSE, University of London, UK
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 My Cup Runneth Over, Tel Aviv Artists’ House curator Arie Bercowitz
2021 Where do babies come from? 5th Jerusalem Biennale for Contemporary Jewish Art Byzantine Hall, Ramban Synagogue, Jerusalem curator Rami Ozeri
2021 Letters from my Grandparents, Sassanfahrt Castle, Sassanfahrt, Germany
curators Rebekka Denz, Annette Schaeffer; catalogue
2020 Tempus Fugit, BY5 Gallery, Tel-Aviv curator Talia Tokatly
2019 Nine Measures, Agripas 12 Cooperative Gallery, Jerusalem curator Hadassa Cohen
2018 First Person Plural, Agripas 12 Cooperative Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel curator Rina Peled
2017 Balfour at 100, Manchester Jewish Museum UK curator Rami Ozeri
2017 Letters from my Grandparents, Gershman Gallery, Philadelphia, USA curator Susan Isaacs; catalogue
2016 Letters from my Grandparents, Small Fortress, Terezin, Czech Republic curator Miroslav Vasaly
2016 Beyond Rubies, Agripas 12 Cooperative Gallery, Jerusalem curator Lena Zaidel; catalogue
2016 Letters from my Grandparents, Ghetto Museum, Terezin Memorial, Czech Republic curator Miroslav Vasaly
2016 Letters from my Grandparents, Anne Frank Center USA, NY, USA curator Rebecca Faulkner
2014 Women in Judaism, Marlis’ Gallery, Attenweiler, Germany curator Marlis Glaser
2013 Fragments of Memory, Miklat Leomanut Gallery, Jerusalem curator Penina Frank
2011 Habayit Hayehudi, Galleria HaAcheret, Holon, Israel curator Avner Bar-Hama
2011 Letters from my Grandparents, Yeshiva University Museum, NY, USA curator Zach Levine
2010 White Out, Tel Aviv Artists’ House, Tel Aviv curator Netta Na’aman; catalogue
2010 Chelsea International Fine Art Competition Winners, Agora Gallery, Chelsea, NY, USA curator Angela De Bello; catalogue
2007 Two Sisters, Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem curators Avi Sebag, Yanai Segal; catalogue
2007 New Members, The Artists’ House, Jerusalem curators Lena Zaidel, Oded Zaidel
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 And I Shall Dwell Among Them: The Desert Sanctuary Reimagined, Villa Gallery, Jerusalem curators Harriet Finck, Miriam Stern; catalogue
2023 Genesis: the Beginning of Creativity, 3 venues in NY, USA curators Joel Silverstein, Richard McBee, Goldie Gross
2023 Looking Ahead, Jerusalem Theater, Jerusalem curator Nurit Jacobs Yinon; catalogue
2023 Mastorit, BY5 Gallery, Tel Aviv curator Svetlana Reingold; catalogue
2022 Her Dress, Her Symbol; Antea Revisited, Cinemateque Jerusalem curators Rita Mendes-Flor, Naomi Tannhauser; catalogue
2022 Spatial Action, Agripas 12 and Marie Cooperative Galleries, Jerusalem curator Nava Barazani; catalogue
2021 Neopostism? NeoSent?, Agripas 12 Cooperative Gallery, Jerusalem curators Sasha Okun, Lena Zaidel; catalogue
2021 Women in Judaism, Museum of the History of Christians and Jews, Laupheim, Germany curator Michael Niemetz
2021 Tribute to Moshe Castel, Castel Museum, Maale Adumim, Israel curators Osnat Shapira, Lena Zaidel; catalogue
2021 Body Text: Feminist Art in Diverse Religio-Cultural Spheres in Israel, online exhibition, Rackman Center, Bar-Ilan University, Israel curators Nurit Jacobs-Yinon, David Sperber
2021 Schalom Sisters! Jewish Museum Augsburg, Germany curator Souzana Hazan
2020 PHOTO IS:RAEL, International Photography Exhibition, Kikar Hamedina, Tel Aviv, Israel
2020 New Hang, Frankfurt Jewish Museum, Frankfurt, Germany curator Eva Atlan; catalogue
2020 Interstices- Overview of the Collection, Ben-Uri Gallery and Museum, London curator René Gimpel
2020 Vienna 1900, Agripas 12 Gallery, Jerusalem curators Rina Peled, Max Epstein
2020 Biennale for Art and Design, Tel-Aviv, Eretz Yisrael Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel chief curators Enrietta Eliezer Bruner, Yuval Sa’ar; catalogue
2019 Not in Heaven, Jerusalem Biennale, Kol Haot Gallery, Hutzot Hayotzer, Jerusalem curators Judy Cardozo, Susan Fraiman; catalogue
2019 Wig, Headscarf, Habit, Stadhaus-Ulm, Büro- Münsterplatz 2, Ulm, Germany curator Karla Nierad
2019 Agripas 12 Artists’ Book, Fresh Paint, Bell Shafir Gallery, Tel-Aviv curator Hagai Segev
2019 Her Dress, Her Symbol, Antea Revisited, Marie Gallery & Agripas 12 Gallery, Jerusalem curators Rita Mendes-Flor, Naomi Tannhauser; catalogue
2019 Barbur 54, Alphabet Compound, Tel-Aviv curator Hagit Kaisar
2019 Spinoza: the Marrano of Reason, Plein van Siena, Amsterdam, Holland curator Bilha Zussman; catalogue
2018 In-Print Art Book Fair, Hansen House, Jerusalem curator Shosh Averbakh
2018 Agripas 12 Artists’ Book, Chapter 2, Agripas 12 Gallery, Jerusalem curator Shosh Averbakh
2018 My Second Childhood: Outline Festival, YMCA, Jerusalem curator Bitya Rosenak
2018 The Invisible Jew, Israel Detour Gallery, Red Bank, NJ, USA curator Goldie Gross
2018 Agripas 12 Artists’ Book, Chapter 1, The Place for Art, Tel-Aviv curator Shosh Averbakh
2017 Balfour at 100, Jerusalem Biennale of Contemporary Jewish Art, Machtarot Museum, Jerusalem curator Rami Ozeri; catalogue
2017 Balfour at 100, Jerusalem Biennale for Contemporary Jewish Art, Knesset, Jerusalem curator Sharon Sofer
2017 Tzena Urena, Beersheba University Museum, Israel curator Haim Maor; catalogue
2017 Tzena Urena, Ein Harod Museum of Art, Israel curator Haim Maor, Dvora Liss
2017 Natural Instincts, Charter Oak Cultural Center, Hartford, CT, USA curator Yona Verwer
2017 Diaspora, Marlis’ Gallery, Attenweiler, Germany curator Marlis Glaser
2017 Across Divides: Borders and Boundaries in Contemporary Art, Koslowe Gallery, Westchester, NY, USA curator Reba Wulkan; catalogue
2017 Home – Homeless, Hebrew Union College Museum, NY, NY, USA curator Laura Kruger; catalogue
2017 Across Divides: Borders and Boundaries in Contemporary Art, Derfner Judaica Museum, Riverdale, NY, USA curator Reba Wulkan; catalogue
2017 Cherchez la Femme: Wig, Burqa, Wimple, Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany curator Miriam Goldman; catalogue
2016 Under the Press of History, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem curator Irena Gordon; catalogue
2016 100 for 100, Ben-Uri Gallery, Christie’s, London, UK curator Sarah McDougal; catalogue
2016 Hand Delivery, Neve Schechter Gallery, Tel-Aviv curator Shira Friedman
2015 Beuys, Beuys, Beuys, Meshuneh Gallery, Tel Aviv curator Liav Mizrachi
2015 A Sense of Space, A Sense of Place, Hasid Bros. Complex, Jerusalem Biennale for Contemporary Jewish Art curator Mallory Serebrin; catalogue
2015 A Fine Line, Jerusalem Biennale for Contemporary Jewish Art, Hasid Bros. Complex, Jerusalem curator Susan Fraiman; catalogue
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Fertilization and its Discontents- Extended Play: Civilians’ R&D In-Process, by Liba Vaynberg, 18.04.2022
Prepare for Art, Jerusalem Post, In Jerusalem, by Barry Davis, 18.03.2022
Four Cubits: Hybrid Jerusalem Biennale explores personal space with global art, No Camels, by Simona Shemer, 20.12.21 at 6 minutes
Where do babies come from?, Jerusalem Post, In Jerusalem, by Barry Davis, 17.12.21
Ruth Schreiber: Stumbling on family history, The Jerusalem Report, p. 40, by Mordechai Beck, 13.12.21
דוד שפרבר, ביקורת נאמנה, Cover, Magnes Press, HU, Jerusalem, 2021
Lebendige judisch-frankische Geschichte, Heinrichsblatt, by Andrea Spoerlein, 20.11.21
Judisches Leben in Sassanfahrt, Frankischer Tag, by Andrea Spoerlein, 18.11.21
Tracing the missing Jewish body with Ruth Schreiber’s Intimate Holocaust Art, Jerusalem Post p.16, by Hagay Hacohen, 2.11.2021
Home is where the art is, In Jerusalem, Jerusalem Post, by Barry Davis, 29th Oct. 2021
AJS Perspectives, The Protest Issue, p. 67, Spring 2021
When God, Jesus, Allah were women : Online show of feminist, religious art, Jerusalem Post, by Joy Bernard, 9th Feb. 2021 https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/when-god-jesus-allah-were-women-online-show-of-feminist-abrahamic-art-658271
Body Text, So-Art Art Blog by Shlomit Oren 4th Feb 2021 https://www.so-art.net/post/religious-feminist-art
Our Father, Who Art Our Mother, by Rabbi Mark Sameth https://religiondispatches.org/our-father-who-art-our-mother-the-open-secret-queer-history-of-god/ 13th Aug. 2020
Women Artists 2020, 44 Degrees online magazine, 18th May 2020
Written on the Body: Re-Envisioning the Female Jewish Body and Re-Embodying Judaism in Contemporary Jewish Feminist Art, by Efraim Sicher, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Nov 2019
The Kosher Oven, Rank and File, Haaretz, by Steven Klein, 3rd Oct. 2019
Spinoza, Marrano of Reason, catalogue essay by Ori Z. Soltes, https://sites.google.com/view/spinoza-marrano-of-reason/catalogue-essay Sept. 2019
The 90% Solution, by Peggy Cidor, In Jerusalem, Jerusalem Post, June 14th 2019
Jerusalem in the frame, by Steven Klein, Haaretz, Rank and File, 31st May 2019
Jerusalem in the frame, by Ruth Maclean, Jerusalem News (Newsbox) uraretaz.ml, 30th May 2019
‘I don’t understand art’ by Sivan Rahav Meir, Olam Katan, March 29th 2019
Why Art Matters by David Sperber; CAA 107th Annual Conference at Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Feb 2nd 2019
Ultimato Online, https://www.ultimato.com.br/conteudo/deus-nem-deuso-nem-deusa Jan 8th 2019
Nashim, ‘I Didn’t Forget: Their Last Words’, p. 22, by Aviva Winter, April 18th 2018
Galerya, Exhibitions p.8, Ha’aretz Apr 12th 2018
Kol Mishelahen (Their Own Voice), by Aviva Vinter, Mekor Rishon, Dec 1st 2017
Alpha Omega Arts Blogspot, Nov 28th 2017
‘Watershed’ in the capital, by Mordechai Beck, Jerusalem Report, Nov 13th 2017
Commemorating the Balfour Declaration with art and gin, by Jessica Steinberg, Times of Israel, Nov 6th 2017
‘Balfour at 100’ exhibition showing at the Knesset, by JNi.Media, JewishPress.com, Nov 2nd 2017
The Balfour Declaration as a work of art, by Liat Collins, My Word, Jerusalem Post, Oct 27th 2017
Balfour Exhibition- Jerusalem Biennale 2017, by Ben Schachter, Jewish Art Salon Blog, Oct 11th 2017
A ‘watershed’ moment for artists at the Jerusalem Biennale, by Jessica Steinberg, The Times of Israel, Oct 7th 2017
You gotta have art, Rank and File, Ha’aretz, Oct 6th 2017
Vortrag von Rabbi Ben-Chorin, Judische Kultur in Attenweiler, Ehingn Tagblatt, 18th August 2017
Mitteilungsblatt, Gemeinde Attenweiler, August 2017
Thinking about Walls, by Joanne Palmer, New Jersey: The Jewish Standard of May 4th 2017
Jewish Museum in Berlin explores head coverings by David Green, from Ha’aretz, Alpha Omega Arts blog, May 1st 2017
Art on exhibit at St. Luke’s Church by Kathy Chang, Greater Media Newspapers, April 25th 2017
Prints under Pressure- International Holocaust Remembrance Day by Heddy Abramowitz, Times of Israel, Jan 27th 2017
Tradition & Transformation by Ori Soltes, article about the Dura Europos Project 2016
Letters as a Lifeline by Sandee Brawarsky, The Jewish Week, The Arts, 12.02.2016
Grapevine, Jerusalem Post, 30.10.15
A Female Prism on the Torah by Barry Davis, The Jerusalem Post, Culture, 4.10.2015
Why London’s Eruv is sprouting in Jerusalem by Nathan Jeffay, The Jewish Chronicle, 18.9.2015
Rank and File, Ha’aretz, 18.9.15
When the Jewish World meets Contemporary Art by Nurit Roth, El Al’s Atmosphere Magazine, September 2015
The Jerusalem Biennale, J-Wire, 1.9.2015
DIG Magazin 2014, Frankfurt, Germany
A Jewish Art by Susan Nashman Fraiman, ‘Milin Havivin7’, published by Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, 2014
Jewish culture under spotlight at AdMed Festival, Ancona, Italy, Aug. 2014
Contrasts in the Creative Work of Ruth Schreiber, paper for Seminar Hakibbutzim, Hadas Ben-Gal and Maya Rom, June 2014
Art-Up Nation; Fringe Art on the Biennale Map The Times of Israel, 10.10.13
Film interview, Jerusalem Biennale for Contemporary Jewish Art, Sept. 2013
De’ot 62, Sept. 2013
Rank and File Ha’aretz, 29.7.13
Old Age De’ot 61, June 2013
Men Marching De’ot 59, Jan. 2013
Women’s Voices De’ot 55, Feb. 2012
Yediot Haemek, Feb. 2012
Visualising the Eruv Journal of Jewish Art, Visual Culture, vol. 5, 2011
Yediot Cholon, Bat Yam, 4.11.11
Discussions on Pluralism De’ot 52, Aug. 2011
A5 Arts Magazine on Jerusalem, May 2011
Ben Gurion leads Holocaust Survivors The Jewish Daily Forward, 4.1.11
From Single to Married De’ot 48, Aug. 2010
Israeli Ceramics show Nation’s Diversity Democrat and Chronicle, 21.3.10
Hot Lands of Clay The Forward, 10.3.10
War of Fragments Walla, Daniel Silberberg, 5.1.10
Naked Heroines Daniel Sperber online, 29.5.09
Shmatte Couture Jewish Chronicle, 15.8.08
Shmatte Couture Jewish News, 14.8.08
The Joys of Polyglot Jerusalem Post, 26.9.07
An Artist’s Work Mishpacha, 10.2.05
Ruth Schreiber is a member of Agripas 12 Co-operative Gallery, Jerusalem, the Jerusalem Artists’ House and the Association of Ceramic Artists, Israel. Her art is featured in these centers: