Zigi Ben Haim was born in 1945 in Baghdad, Iraq.                          

Education

1972 – 74           M.F.A., San Francisco State University, San Francisco,
                          California, USA
1972 – 73           M.A., J.F.K. University, Orinda, California, USA
1971 – 72           California College of Arts, Oakland, California, USA
1966 – 70           The Avni Institute of Fine Arts, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Grants & Awards

2007                   The Emily Harvey Foundation, Fellowship to Venice, Italy.
2004                   DAAD Fellowship to Berlin, Germany.
2000                   Niche Award for sculpture.
1996                   Pollack Krasner Foundation Grant.
1992                   Guest Artist Fellowship, Artists Union, U.S.S.R.
1990                   Pollack Krasner Foundation Grant.
1990                   MacDowell Colony Residency, NH, USA
1984                   National Endowment for the Arts.
1983                   New York State Council on the Arts, A.R.E.A. Project.
1982                   Muestra Int. de Obra Grafica, Bilbao, Spain.
1970                   Ministry of Culture, Israel.
1966 – 1970        America Israel Culture Foundation, Israel