Ruth Bloch was born in Israel in 1951 to artist parents. Her father was a musician, while her mother worked in ceramics, Ruth's family were members of a Kibbutz called Alonim, a place where childhood and early youth afforded her many opportunities to develop her artistic talents. Reaching adulthood, Ruth attended the Avny Art Institute in Tel Aviv, and took additional studies in psychology in the United States.

Currently Ruth Bloch lives and sculpts in Israel. Her work exhibits a great depth of feeling for the human figure, revealing the living unity of her masculine and feminine forces. Her works are exhibited all over the world.

With the art of Ruth Bloch-and with her own thought and work-that is not what art is about. Art is not a con game of fashionable political platitude, or textual criticism designed to beguile the academic and boggle the viewer. Nor is it to be engineered in terms of an obtuse theory, or cerebral molecular interpretation of the deconstructed conceit comprising a piece, or the atoms of its maker. Just as in physics we speak of a "causal decoupling" between one level of physical organization and another, Bloch's work is happily detached from the intellectual demonstration that has become the progressive arthritis of art, hobbling its practice, and its love.

Bloch's hands are free and flexible to make what she wants, and feels; and so, free of the need to define by negatives-as to what she is not, or does not want, or does not do--she is pleased enough to show and tell what it is she does, as a sculptor and as an artist, and creator. She is accordingly positive: not just affirmative, but emphatic and optimistic in her belief in nature and in life, and in the human kind and nature she freely styles in unaffected and untrammeled creation.