Born in Tel Aviv, 1947
Lives and works in Tel Aviv
Education
1972 - 1976 - Studied in the departments of art history and philosophy,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1968 - 1969 - Studied at the Faculty of Architecture, Technion - Israel
Institute of Technology, Haifa
Teaching
Since 1999 — Teaches at the Midrasha School of Art, Beit Berl Collage
Since 1994 - Teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
MFA program
1984 - 1986 — Taught at the Midrasha School of Art, Ramat Hasharon
Solo Exhibitions
2011-"David and I," The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University
2010 - "David and I," Open Museum of Photography, Tel-Hai
Industrial Park
2006 - "Conceptual Paradise," Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv
- "Works, 1973-1981," Artists Workshops, Tel Aviv
2002 - "The English Painter," Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv
1999 - Gallery of the Kalmanya Art School
1998 - "The End of God," Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv
1996 - "Blue-White Trompe-l'Oeil," Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod
1993 - Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv
- Gallery of the Art Department, University of Haifa
1980 - Tel Aviv Museum of Art, as part of the exhibition series "News 1"
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 - "Yvette," Midrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv
2009 - "Soundtrack," Meirov House, Holon
2006 - "Mixed Feelings," Haifa Museum of Art
- "Illness Report," Art Department, Ben-Gurion University
of the Negev
- "Chapter One: Storytellers"; "Chapter Two: Untitled," Art
Gallery, Faculty of Humanities, University of Haifa
- "The Image of God in Jewish and Israeli Art," The Israel
Museum, Jerusalem
- "Doron," Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv
- "My Body, Myself: The Third Decade, 1968-1978," Tel Aviv
Museum of Art
2005 - "November 4, 1995: An Assassination in Retrospective,"
Gallery of the Bezalel Academy's Continuing Studies
Program, Tel Aviv
2004 - "Homage to Hanoch Levin," Haifa Museum of Art
2003 - "The Revival of Judaism in Israeli Art," Time for Art, Tel Aviv
- "Omanutisrael.com," Time for Art, Tel Aviv
2002 - "Under the Sign of Painting," Haifa Museum of Art
2001 - "Self-Portrait," Gallery of the Bezalel Academy's
Continuing Studies Program, Tel Aviv
1998 - "Biblical Motifs in Israeli Art," Artists House, Tel Aviv
- "Aspects of Israeli Art from the 1970s: The Limits of
Language," Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1995 - "Coexistence," Mitzpeh Ramon
1993 - "Three Realities," Artists Workshops, Tel Aviv
1984 - "Pears and Apples," Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv
Museum of Art
1980 - Sara Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem
- "Autumn Salon," Dizengoff Center, Tel Aviv
1979 - Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
1975 - "Open Workshop," The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- Ha'Kibbutz Israeli Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
1974 - Ha'Kibbutz Israeli Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
- Sara Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem
- Artists House, Jerusalem
1973 - Sara Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem
1972 - Gallery 220, Tel Aviv
Prizes
2008 - Minister of Science, Culture and Sports Prize
2007 - America-Israel Cultural Foundation Prize
1995 - Minister of Science and the Arts Prize
1994 - Short-term study abroad grant, America-Israel Cultural
Foundation
Publications
- "The Un-interpreted Name: What is an 'Arab - Purple Moustache?,'"
Efrat Biberman and Dganit Berest, eds., Raffi Lavie: Please Read
What is Painted Here (Beit Berl: Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit
Berl College, 2009), pp. 45-66.
- "The King is Held in the Galleries," in Yehudit Levin: "Alexander,"
Works 1974-2007, exh. cat. (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2007),
pp. 11-47.
- "Love at First Sight: Henry Shelesnyak and the Biographies of the
Others," Hamidrasha, no. 8, 2005, pp. 214-265.
- "The High (Female) Comissioner," Hamidrasha no. 3, 2000,
pp. 201-248.
- "The Purloined Painter (Midrash of Michal)," in Michal Na'aman:
Legion, exh. cat. (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 1999),
pp. 35-72.
- "J. Johns According Tu M," Studio no. 79, January-February 1997,
p. 20.
- “Teaching Art to the Sons of Judah, Or a Series of Failed Starts,”
Studio no. 40 (“The Gray Cells: A Reexamination of the 1970s,"
guest editor: Gideon Ofrat), January 1993, pp. 42-45, 60.
- David Ginton: Blue-White Trompe l'Oeil, exh. cat. (Ein
Hod: Janco Dada Museum, 1996).
- "Head Birth: Portrait of Raffi as a Young Painter," in Raffi: The
Early Paintings, 1957-1961, exh. cat. (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv
Museum of Art, 1993), pp. 11-43.
- "Self-Portrait in n Scenes," in David Wakstein, exh. cat. (Museum
of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, 1991), non-paginated.
David Ginton is an Israeli artist known for his work in painting and photography. He was born in Tel Aviv in 1947, where he currently lives and works.
Mr. Ginton studied architecture at the Technion in Haifa, as well as art history and philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He teaches art at the Midrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College and at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem and the MFA program in Tel Aviv. In 1995, he was recognized by the Minister of Science and Arts for his contribution to Israeli art and culture.
For the past decade Mr. Ginton has focused his studio work exclusively on the ongoing project "Back Side of a Painting." Fascinated by the interior of the canvas (the back side), Mr. Ginton unravels the affinity between the visual aspect of painting and its rhetorical, epistemological dimensions, creating a work that is at once a painting and a comment on painting.
