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Dr. Iris Fishof

irisfish@netvision.net.il

Art historian, curator and senior lecturer in the Cultural Studies Unit, where she teaches theoretical courses on the history of ancient and contemporary jewelry and contemporary designers, and serves as an academic and professional advisor on jewelry at the Shenkar Institute for the Research and Documentation of Design in Israel. 

Dr. Fishof has a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where she also completed her Master's and Bachelor's degrees.

Before she began focusing on jewelry, she specialized primarily in Jewish art and from 1983 to 2003 she held various positions in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, including Chief Curator of Judaica and Jewish Anthropology and Head of Curatorial Services. 

In 2013, Fishof published her comprehensive book, the first of its kind - Jewellery in Israel: Multicultural Diversity 1948 to the Present - which was published in English by Arnoldsche Art Publishers. The compressive and in-depth research she carried out on the subject positioned her as an expert in the field and she has been invited to lecture on the subject in Museums and Universities around the word. 

In 2012 Fishof curated a solo exhibition for Jeweler Shirly Bar Amotz at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art ("Happy Days") and published a catalog. In addition to her numerous books and articles on the topic of Jewish art, she published an English catalog in conjunction with the 2010 exhibition “No Problem?”  by a contemporary group of Israeli jewelers called the Inyanim Group, which took place at the Loupe Gallery for Contemporary Art Jewelry in New Jersey. Along the way she also wrote the introductory text to Transit: Contemporary Jewelry from Israel, a catalog edited by Jürgen Eickhoff, for Galerie Spektrum, Munich, 2012 in English and in German. In 2012 she curated the exhibition - Materials of Time: Israeli Jewelry 7 - at the Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv.

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