Ruth Horam

Ruth Horam was born in 1931 in Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine. She was a graduate of the Rehavia Gymnasium in Jerusalem and of Saint Martin's School of Art in London.

In 1960, she won the UNESCO Prize for Painting, in Paris. She was married to Yehuda Horam, who served as Israeli ambassador to Switzerland. Between 1964 and 1967, Ruth chaired the Jerusalem Association of Painters and Sculptors.

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In 1969 she travelled to Seoul, South Korea where she studied the art of calligraphy, returning to Israel in 1973. In 1983, she was Guest-Artist at 'Arabia' Ceramics in Finland.

In 1996 she received the MASTO Foundation grant for Creativity. Horam was a resident of Jerusalem until her death on 2 August 2021.