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David Ginton, Israeli, born 1947

David Ginton was born in Tel Aviv in 1947. In the 1970s he studied the history of art and philosophy and began to work in art as an autodidact. His primary works from this period were photographs that documented artistic activities that mixed bodily and linguistic expressions. During the second half of this decade he produced works of photography that made use of books as their model, under the influence of Jasper Johns. Once he abandoned this series, he stopped working in art until the 1990s. He served as the art critic for the newspaper Tel Aviv, and he wrote several articles that made use of psychoanalysis as a tool for analyzing art. Among his best known works is a series of prints called “Pain” (1974) and a series of paintings and photgraphs called “Back of the Photograph.” Ginton is married to the art curator Ellen Ginton. He lives and works in Tel Aviv.

Education

Mainly self-taught, but also 1975 Bezalel Academy of Design and Art, Jerusalem.
Technion, Haifa, Architecture
1995 Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem, post-graduate studies

Teaching

Beit Berl College, Midrasha School of Art
Tel Aviv University, M.F.A. Program
Since 1999 Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College, Ramat Hasharon

Awards And Prizes

1994 Short-term study abroad grant, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
1995 Prize in Visual Arts, Ministry of Science and the Arts
2007 America-Israel Cultural Foundation Prize
2008 Prize in Visual Arts, Ministry of Culture and Sport