Dvora Bochman

Dvora Bochman (; born 1950) is an Israeli artist, painter, sculptor, graphic designer and art educator.

Early life and education Dvora Bochman was born in 1950 as Dvora Rivka Zemel, to Shoshana Zemel and Arye Zemel. Bochman completed her art and education studies at Hamidrasha College for Arts in 1972. In 1972 she married Zvi Bochman and moved to Givatayim.

Art career In 1984, Bochman relocated to Nairobi, Kenya. During this time, she was involved in the local arts. She volunteered as a docent at the National Museum of Kenya where she attended training courses at the National Museums of Kenya in 1982. She assisted local theatrical companies by painting theatrical backgrounds for play and ballet productions, which included the Hurlington Players production of the Canterbury Tales, the National Theatre, and the Nairobi Ballet. She also took on commercial engagements including work for the Kenyan Postal Authority and murals. In the 1990s, Bochman was involved in producing stamps and other philatelic materials for post offices in Kenya and Israel. She also created some large scale compositions.

In 1992, Bochman returned to Israel and resumed her university education. She continued her artistic activities, accepting commercial commissions from the Israeli and Kenyan postal authorities as well as participating in art exhibitions.

In 2003 Bochman relocated to Budapest, Hungary. She volunteered as a docent in the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts and made several exhibitions. She joined many programs of the Museum of Fine Arts, where she was active as an art information scientist, setting up the digital library and instructing on better presentation skills.

Works Bochman has worked with oil paints and acrylics on canvas and plywood. More recent works include mixed media on a papier-mâché foundation, embedding of small objects and often featuring multi-chromatic glazing.

One of the notable works by Bochman was painted on a wooden wall and commissioned by Vamos & Partners Architects for the UNEP Headquarters in Nairobi. Another mural was a more abstract composition called Maasai Necklaces at the entrance of the Ya-Ya Centre in Nairobi.

Scholarships 1968: a citation from the Department of Education Municipality Tel Aviv in jewelry design The lion stamp went on to represent Israel at the World philatelic competition of 1995 in Singapore and won an award. This series features the Asian lion, the Persian leopard, the chimpanzee and the Asian elephant.

Solo exhibitions 1979 Beit Sokolov (House of journalists) — Tel Aviv, Israel 1980 Beit-Emmanuel — Ramat-Gan, Israel 1984 French Cultural Center — Nairobi, Kenya 1985 Goethe Cultural Institute — Nairobi, Kenya – Fantastic Realism 2009 MadeByYou — Budapest, Hungary 2009 Rumbach Old Synagogue — Creation – in the 2012 Summer Festival Of Tolerance – Budapest, Hungary

Exhibitions as curator 2012 CCA — Tel Aviv, Israel – “Mágia(r) kocka” – Hungarian Magic Cube – video exhibition of Hungarian artists