1949 Born in Bayhan, Yemen, immigrated to Israel
1971-3 Studied at Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem
1975 Studied at Reading University, Fine Arts, Reading
1976 Studied advanced sculpture course at St. Martin’s School of Art, London
1977-82 Taught sculpture at St. Martin’s School of Art, London
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 People I saw but never met, Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia
2015 The Other Side of Midnight, The Art Gallery of Uzbekistan, Tashkent
2014 The Other Side of Midnight, National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Astana
2013 The Other Side of Midnight, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
The Other Side of Midnight, Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia
2012 Zadok Ben-David at Singapore Botanic Gardens, presented by Sotheby’s,Singapore
Simple Line, Mysteski Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine
The Story I am About to Tell You…, Magic Box, Cerveira, Portugal
2011 Blackfield, Artclub 1563, Seoul, Korea
2010 Blackfield, Verso Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
1918 Art Space, Shanghai, China
2009 Blackfield, Galerie Albrecht, Berlin, Germany
Blackfield, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Human nature, Tel Aviv Museum, Israel.
2008 Blackfield, Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia
Four Seasons, Sotheby’s, Hanover Square, London UK.
2007 Invinsible Reality, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
Oroom Foundation Seoul, Korea
Blackfield, Hales Gallery, London
XIV Biennal de Cerveira – Blackfield
Municipal Museum Caminha, Portugal
Blackfield, Janet Oh Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2006 1918 Artspace, Shanghai, China
2004 Magica Realta, Innerscapes, Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia
Innerscapes, Cass Sculpture Foundation, London, UK
2003 Magica Realta, Galleria Civica d’arte Moderna e Conteporanea,
Saint Vincent, Aosta, Italy
Innerscapes, Esplanade Culture Centre, Singapore
Evolution and Theory, The Forum, Villa Nova de Cerveira, Portugal
2001 Magica Realta, Place Arte Conteporanea, Cavagnolo, Torino, Italy
2000 Evolution and Theory, Neanderthal Museum, Mettmann, Germany
Leuchter & Peltzer, Dusseldorf, Germany
Magic Reality, Refusalon, San Francisco, USA
1999 Evolution and Theory, Mercedez Benz Forum, Stuttgart, Germany and
Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore
1998 Evolution and Theory, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, San Francisco Art Institute,
USA and Museum Beelden aan Zee, Schveningen, Holland
1997 Evolution and Theory, Herzliya Museum, Israel
Cheluche Gallery (with David Mach), Tel Aviv, Israel
Im Heppacher Gallery, Esslingen, Germany
Evolution and Theory, Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia
1995 Jason & Rhodes Gallery, London, England
1994 Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, England
1993 Im Heppacher Gallery, Esslingen, Germany
Ecke Galerie, Augsburg, Germany
1992 Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London
1990-1 Collins Gallery, Glasgow, touring to Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery,
York City Art Gallery, Annadale Galleries, Sydney Australia
1989 The Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Galerie Albrecht, Munich, Germany
1988 Venice Biennale, represented Israel
1987 Albert Totah Gallery, New York
Creatures of a Private Fable, Bradford City Museum
1986 Art & Project, Amsterdam Holland
1985 Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London
1984 121 Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
1980 Air Gallery, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 Do Not Destroy, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, USA
2011 Roundabout: Face to Face, Tel Aviv Museum, Israel
Beyond Limits Sotheby’s at Chatsworth, Derbyshire, UK
2010 Roundabout, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand
Present and experience of the Past, International Sculpture in Racconigi,
Turin, Italy
Living in Evolution, Busan Biennale, Busan, South Korea
Ten Monumental British Sculptures, Cerro da Vila Museum and Archaeological
Site in Vilamoura, Portugal
Beyond Limits Sotheby’s at Chatsworth, Derbyshire, UK
2009 OK Bienale Cuvee 2009, Linz, Austria
Vivid Fantasy, KISS (Kunst im Schloss Untergröningen), Untergröningen, Germany
IV international Biennial, Vila nova de Cerveira, Portugal
Animals Contemporary Vision, Nave Gallery, Parco Culturale Le Serre, Turin, Italy
2008 Of The Outer World, Duckyong Kim & Zadok Ben-David, I-Myu Projects, London
Dreams, group show, Passage de Retz, Paris, France
Gathering Dreams, Beijing Olympic Games 2008, Beijing, China
Beyond Limits Sotheby's at Chatsworth, Derbyshire, UK
Animal and Nature, Chateau des Bousval, Belgium
Wonder, Singapore Biennale 2008, Singapore
2007 Sequences & Repetition, Brunel Arts Centre, Brunel University, London, UK
Rummage: Sculptors’ Drawings, The Winchester Gallery, University of
Southampton
Animal, Kunst im Schloss, Untergroningen, Germany
Sculptuur Biennale, Den Haag, Netherlands
Sequences & Repetition, Jerwood Space, London
Beyond Limits, Sotheby’s at Chatsworth, Derbyshire, UK
IV international Biennial, Vila nova de Cerveira, Portugal
2006 1918 Artspace, Shanghai, China
Fatamorgana, Haifa Museum of Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel
2005 Telltale, Ewha Art Centre, Seoul, Korea
2003 Landscape, Pump Gallery, Battersea, London
Science Fiction, Singapore Museum of Art, Singapore
2002 Blue Place arte Conteporanea, Cavagnolo, Torino, Italy
The Train Ride, Video Installation, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, USA
Sculptura Internazionale a La mandria, Torino, Italy
Salto Naturale, Kunst im Schloss, Untergroningen, Germany
Paper art Bienale, Leopold-hoesch Museum, Duren, Germany
Thinking big, Concept for twenty-first century British sculpture, Peggy
Guggenheim collection, Venice, Italy
About Face, Croydon clock tower, London
2001 Tempo Kunst im Schloss, Untergroningen, Germany
Carnval des Animaux, Den Haag Sculpture 2001, The Hague, Holland
Galerie en Lijstenmakerij, Den Haag, Holland
The Train Ride, Video Installation, Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel
L’Homme qui Marche, Palais Royal, Paris, France
Narcisse Blesse – Passage de Retz – Paris, France
The Walking Man, Den Haag Sculpture, Den Haag, Holland
2000 BRONZE - Contemporary British Sculpture, Holland Park, London, UK
Looking ahead-vision of Israel, ICA, San Jose, California, USA
1999 The Shape of the Century (199 years of sculpture in Britain)
Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury and Canary Wharf, London, UK
ANIMAL – Musee Bourdelle Paris, France
Artists books - Refusalon San Francisco, California, USA
1997 Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, USA
Fantasia, Herzliya Museum, Israel
IX International Bienal, Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal
1996 100 Park Lane, London
1995 5 Years to 2000, Herzliya Museum, Israel
Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, USA
VIII International Bienal, Portugal
1993 A collaboration of music and art with Peter Gabriel, Land Mark Tower,
Yokahama, Japan
Antipathos, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Locus, Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles
1992 Places and Mainstream, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
The new metaphysics, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1991 Kunsteuropa, Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany
Places and Mainstream, Museum Hara, Tokyo, Japan
1990 Jewish Art of the 20th Century, Barbican, London
1989 Sculptures Drawing with Joel Fisher and Franz Bernhard,
Galerie Albrecht, Munich
Recent Acquisitions, Tel Aviv Museum, Israel
1987 5 British Artists, Ek’ymose Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
Metal & Motion, Touring from Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
Palaces of Culture, Stoke City Museum & Art Gallery
Israeli Artists, Brooklyn Museum, New York. Continued to Europe,
Japan and Korea
Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Fresh Paint, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Tefen Museum, Israel
Edward Totah Gallery, London
1986 from two worlds, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London & The Fruitmarket
Gallery, Edinburgh
IV international Biennial, Vila nova de Cerveira, Portugal
Joint Sculpture & Dance Choreography with Celia Hulten & The London
Contemporary Dance Company, The Place, London.
1985 Art & Project, Amsterdam, Holland
Who is afraid of Red, Yellow & Blue? Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
1984 Attitudes 84, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK.
80 Years of Sculpture, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1983 Tel Hai, International Art Meeting, Israel
Pegan Echo, Riverside Studios, London
RECENT AWARDS
2007 Awarded the Grande Prémio at the XIV Biennial Internacional de Arte de
Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal
2005 Awarded the Tel Aviv Museum Prize for Sculpture
The works feature in the collections of important public and private institutions in Europe, East Asia, United States, Israel and Australia