INTRODUCTION

Sigalit Ashvil-Bibi was born in Kutaissi, Georgia, in the USSR, in 1952. She graduated from the high school of Music and Art in Kutaissi, USSR, in 1969, and from the Academy of Arts, in Tbilisi, USSR, in 1973. She served an apprenticeship with a well-known professor in art, Mordechai Dzanashvili, from 1973-1983, and continued her art training at the New York Academy of Art from 1991-1993.

Ashvil is a realistic painter & takes great liberties with being a realist, as her aim is not to reproduce a likeness, but to paint the subject with a soul and give the viewer an inner vision of whom the subject is.

Today, being multi-talented as a piano teacher, having more than 35 years of experience, she is a beginner, intermediate and advanced specialist with a special approach for individual needs. She continues to exhibit her works with each of her annual recitals. She is a subject of biographical record in the Who’s Who in American Art and Who’s Who in the World for her outstanding achievements.

Today she is highly recognized in both Israel and the U.S.A. for her diversity and ingenuity, especially in portrait painting.

When asked about her greatest accomplishments, Ashvil immediately points to her rabbinical portraits:

“I want my art to capture the essence of the soul of all that is good and true, so that people can catch at least a glimmer of it and pursue it in their lives.”

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Born:            April 29, 1952 in Kutaissi, Georgia (USSR)

                    Married with two children

EDUCATION

1969:             High School of Music and Art, Kutaissi, Georgia

1969-1973:     Academy of Arts, Tbilisi, Georgia

1973-1983:     Apprenticeship with the well known artist Mordechai Dzanashvili in Israel

1991-1993:     New York Academy of Art 

HONORS & AWARDS

1968:              Gold Medal on the 6^th International Festival between Musicians in the USSR

1979:              Member of the Board of Directors of The Association of Israeli Artists

1991:              Member of The American Artist Professional League

1992:              Member of The American Guild of Judaic Art

1993:              An Investigation of 20^th Century Observant Jewish Fine Artists

1999:              Who’s Who in American Art

2001:              Who’s Who in The World

EXHIBITIONS

1976:              Residents of Raffy Bar Levy, Jerusalem, Israel

1977:              Bait Ha Am, Jerusalem, Israel

1977:              Tel-or, Jerusalem, Israel

1978:              Beit Sokolov, Tel-Aviv, Israel

1978:              Museum of Bat Yam, Israel

1979:              Agency, Jerusalem, Israel

1979:              Hotel Plaza, Jerusalem, Israel

1980:              Residents of Plato Sharon, Israel

1981:              Museum of Yad Le Banim, Hulon, Israel

1982:              Beit Sokolov, Tel-Aviv, Israel

1983:              Beit Ha Am, Jerusalem, Israel

1983:              Hotel Plaza, Jerusalem, Israel

1984:              Boro Park “Y”, Brooklyn, NY

1984:              Residents of Mr. & Mrs. Goldstein, NY

1985:              West Minister Bank, Manhattan, NY

1987:              Chassidic Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

1988:              Residents of Mrs. S. Shults, Brooklyn, NY

1989:              Museum Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

1989:              International Jewish Festival, Queens, NY

1989:              Morin Miller Gallery, Manhattan, NY

1990:              Kew Gardens Synagogue, Queens, NY

1991:              The Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue, Manhattan, NY

1991:              Yeshiva University Museum, “The Sephardic Journey”, Manhattan, NY

1991:              San Francisco

1991:              Denver, Colorado

1991:              White House, Washington DC (Invited by Mrs. Barbara Pierce Bush)

1992:              Yeshiva University Museum, “The Sephardic Journey”, Manhattan, NY

1992:              Sephardic Jewish Center, Queens, NY

1993:              Brooklyn Gallery, “Brushstroke”, Brooklyn, NY

1993:              NY Connecticut, New Jersey chapters exhibit with AAPL, Chelsea Center

1993:              NY Connecticut chapter exhibit in the great Neck Library

1994:              Brooklyn Gallery, “Brushstroke”, Brooklyn, NY

1995:              The Esplanade Hotel, Manhattan, NY

1995:              Exhibition & Piano Concert – The Community House, Queens, NY

1995:              Queens “Y”, Queens, NY

1996:              White House, Washington DC (Invited by Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton)

1996:              Exhibition & Piano Concert – Queens “Y”, Queens, NY

1997:              Exhibition & Piano Concert – Queens “Y”, Queens, NY

1998:              Exhibition & Piano Concert – Queens “Y”, Queens, NY

1999:              Exhibition & Piano Concert – Queens “Y”, Queens, NY

2000:              Exhibition & Piano Concert – Brooklyn – Queens Conservatory, Queens, NY

2000:              Chassidic Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2001:              Exhibition & Piano Concert – Brooklyn – Queens Conservatory, Queens, NY

2002:              Guatemala, Central America

2002:              Piano Concert – Machane Chodesh, Queens, NY

2003:              Family Exhibition, Jerusalem, Israel