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
2024 A Tranquil Gaze: Contemplating Landscape, Agripas 12 Cooperative Gallery, Jerusalem
(curator Doron Adar)
2022 My Cup Runneth Over, Tel Aviv Artists’ House (curator Arie Bercowitz)
Prepare: Ta’aroch, Agripas 12 Cooperative Gallery, Jerusalem (curator Bitya Rosenak)
2021 Where Do Babies Come From? 5th Jerusalem Biennale for Contemporary Jewish Art,
Byzantine Hall, Ramban Synagogue, Jerusalem (curator Rami Ozeri)
Letters from my Grandparents, Sassanfahrt Castle, Sassanfahrt, Germany
(curators Rebekka Denz, Annette Schaeffer)
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 (curator Rina Peled)
2017 Balfour at 100, Manchester Jewish Museum, UK (curator Rami Ozeri)
Letters from my Grandparents, Gershman Gallery, Philadelphia, USA , (curator Susan Isaacs)
2016 Letters from my Grandparents, Small Fortress, Terezin, Czech Republic, (curator Miroslav Vasaly)
Beyond Rubies, Agripas 12 Cooperative Gallery, Jerusalem (curator Lena Zaidel; catalogue)
Letters from my Grandparents, Ghetto Museum, Terezin Memorial, Czech Republic
(curator Miroslav Vasaly)
Letters from my Grandparents, Anne Frank Center USA, NY, (curator Rebecca Faulkner; catalogue)
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)
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)
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)
New Members, The Artists’ House, Jerusalem (curators Lena Zaidel, Oded Zaidel)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Artists on Anti-Semitism II, Suffolk Y JCC, Long Island, NY, USA (curators Hannah Rothbard et al)
2024 The Unseen Woman, ArtSpace Gallery, Tirat Hacarmel, Israel, (curator Vera Gayliss)
Looking Ahead, Ben Gurion University Gallery, Beersheva, Israel (curator Nurit Jacobs Yinon, catalogue)
Fotonostrum, 22nd Julia Margaret Cameron Awards Exhibition, Barcelona Foto Biennale, Barcelona, Spain
(curator Julio Hirsch-Hardy, catalogue)
Seeking Joy, Hebrew Union College Museum, NY NY, USA (curator Phyllis Freedman, catalogue)
Sex, Jewish Positions, Jewish Museum Amsterdam (curator Titia Zoeter, catalogue)
Artists on Anti-Semitism, Leonard Gallery, Tribeca, NY, USA (curators Hannah Rothbard et al)
This is What’s Left - a Look at Intimacy, Agripas 12 Cooperative Gallery (curator Doron Adar; catalogue)
Seeking Joy, Hebrew Union College Museum, NY USA (curator Phyllis Freedman; catalogue)
Sex: Jewish Positions, Jewish Museum, Amsterdam, Holland (curator Titia Zoeter; catalogue)
2023 Looking Ahead, Jerusalem Theater, Jerusalem (curator Nurit Jacobs-Yinon; catalogue)
Mastorit, BY5 Gallery, Tel Aviv (curator Svetlana Reingold; catalogue)
2022 Her Dress, Her Symbol; Antea Revisited, Cinematheque, Jerusalem
(curators Rita Mendes-Flor, Naomi Tannhauser; catalogue)
Love me Kosher, Jewish Museum, Vienna, Austria (curator Julia Windegger; catalogue)
2021 Women in Judaism, Museum of the History of Christians and Jews, Laupheim, Germany
(curator Michael Niemetz)
Tribute to Moshe Castel, Castel Museum, Ma’ale Adumim, Israel,
(curators Osnat Shapira, Lena Zaidel; catalogue)
Shalom Sisters! Jewish Museum, Augsburg, Germany (curator Dr. Barbara Staudinger)
2020 PHOTO IS:RAEL, International Photography Exhibition, Kikar Hamedina, Tel Aviv, Israel
(curator Maya Aner)
New Hang, Jewish Museum, Frankfurt, Germany (curator Eva Atlan; catalogue)
Interstices- Overview of the Collection, Ben-Uri Gallery and Museum, London, UK (curator René Gimpel)
Biennale for Art and Design, Tel-Aviv, Eretz Yisrael Museum, Tel-Aviv
(chief curators Enrietta, Eliezer Bruner, Yuval Sa’ar; catalogue)
2019 Wig, Headscarf, Habit, Stadhaus-Ulm, Ulm, Germany (curator Karla Nierad)
2017 Balfour at 100, Jerusalem Biennale for Contemporary Jewish Art, Knesset, Jerusalem
(curator Sharon Sofer)
Tzeno Ureno, University Museum, Beersheba, Israel (curator Haim Maor; catalogue)
Tzeno Ureno, Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel (curators Dvora Liss, Haim Maor)
Home – Homeless, Hebrew Union College Museum, NY, USA (curator Laura Kruger; catalogue)
Across Divides: Borders and Boundaries in Contemporary Art, Derfner Judaica Museum, Riverdale, NY, USA (curator Reba Wulkan; catalogue)
Cherchez la Femme: Wig, Burqa, Wimple, Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany
(curator Miriam Goldmann; catalogue)
2016 Under the Press of History, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem (curator Irena Gordon; catalogue)
100 for 100, Ben-Uri Gallery, Christie’s, London, UK (curator Sarah McDougal; catalogue)
Unexpected: Continuing Narratives of Identity and Migration, Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, London, UK (curator Sarah McDougal)
2015 White Matter, Contemporary Porcelain Sculpture, Wilfrid Israel Museum, Kibbutz Ha’zorea
(curator Shir Miller Yamaguchi; catalogue)
2014 Hear O Israel, Museum Omera, Ancona, Italy (curator Rami Ozeri)
2013 Blue & White/Now: Contemporary Ceramics in Israel, Aharon Kahana House, Ramat Gan, Israel
(curator Aina Aroetti; catalogue)
The Seventh Day: Shabbat Revisited, Hebrew Union College Museum, NY, USA
(curator Laura Kruger; catalogue)
2012 Matronita: Jewish Feminist Art, Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel
(curators Dvora Liss, David Sperber; catalogue)
2010 From the Melting Pot into the Fire; Ceramics from Israel, Gardiner Museum for Ceramic Art, Toronto, (curator Yael Novak; catalogue)
2009 Performing the Woman’s Body, ViP 9, Ticho House, Israel Museum, Jerusalem (curator Timna Zeligman)
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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: