Tanya Preminger

Biography

Tanya earned a Master of Arts (M.A.) degree from the Surikov Academy of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia. Since 1972 she lives, works and teaches in Israel.

Tanya works in various art media such as sculpture, landscape art, installation and photography. She presented 29 one-person exhibitions in Israel from 1978-2011, including: The Negev Museum, Open Museum Omer, Ramat Gan Museum, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Lutshansky Museum, 'Painters and Sculptors' Association Gallery, Tova Osman Gallery, Jerusalem Artists House, Efrat Gallery.

She has participated in over 90 group exhibitions worldwide.

Participated in over 100 Sculpture Symposiums and Competitions worldwide including: China, Canada, Austria, Greece, France, Italy, Taiwan, Sweden, USA, India, Germany, Finland, Brazil, Spain, Argentina, Japan, Belgium, Italy, Denmark, Turkey, Serbia, Slovakia.

Over 90 of her landscape works and sculptures are presented worldwide. Tanya is known to believe that literature is a means to growth, education and cultivation of the human mind. Her books intend to contribute towards that.[1]

Awards

2014 Third prize. Sculpture Snow Competition "SculpOLIMP" ,Moscow, Russia.
2013 First Prize. 2nd International Sculpture Symposium of Mercosul in Bento Gonçalves, Brasil.
2013 Second Prize. Open competition for snow and ice sculpture "Sculp-OLIMP" ,Moscow, Russia.
2011 Third prize. Chinese First International Public Sculpture Contest.
2011 Special Selection Award. International Competition for Sea Art Festival Busan.Korea
2011 First Prize. Stone Sculpture Competition "Forma viva". Slovenia.
2010 One of the finalists of the International sculpture competition of the Tsinghua University, China
2010 Winner of Competition " Nashe Otechestvo", Moskow, Russia.
2010 Third Prize International Snow Sculpture Competition, Valloire, France.
2007 Second Prize. International Sculpture Competition, "La Piera Musa Agreste", Italy.
2003 First place. Competition for Sculpture work " Mifal Hapais", Israel.
2003 Selected as Excellent Works Plan. International City Sculpture Exhibition. Fuzhou, China.
2001 Sculptors Award. International Stone Sculpture Competition. San-Chung, S. Korea.
1999 First Prize. International Stone Sculpture Competition."Nantopietra" Nanto, Italy.
1998 "Con Salud" Prize.International Biennale Sculpture Competition. Resistencia, Argentina.
1997 First Prize. International Stone Sculpture Competition. Fanano, Italy.
1996 Third Prize. International Stone Sculpture Competition. Caorle, Italy.
1995 Outstanding Prize. International Stone Sculpture Competition. Hualien, Taiwan.