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Michael Gitlin (born 1943 in Cape Town, South Africa) is an Israeli sculptor.
Michael Gitlin's family immigrated to Israel in 1948. Gitlin received his BA in English Literature and Art History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1967). He simultaneously studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, graduating in 1967. Gitlin moved to New York City in 1970 and received an MFA from Pratt Institute (1972). His first museum show was at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem in 1977. In the 1980s, Gitlin taught sculpture at the Parsons School of Design and Columbia University in New York, the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem, and the University of California in Davis.
Gitlin's work can be characterized as abstract and reductive. He began his career working three-dimensionally, first with paper and later with wood, using paper as a medium rather than a support. His sculptures are mostly wall pieces, which depend on architecture for their physical and contextual support. In recent years, Gitlin has worked with steel wool, copper wire, foam, and black spandex. Drawing, too, has always been a demanding part of Gitlin's projects.
Works in Israel and the US and lives in New York.

Education

1963-67 Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem, graduate
1964-67 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, BA, Art History, English Literature
1970-72 Pratt Institute, New York City, USA, M.F.A.

Teaching

1971-72 Pratt Institute, New York City, USA
1972 Haifa Univerrsity, Haifa
1973-74 The New School, New York City, USA
1976-77 Parsons School of Design, New York City, USA, Sculpture
1977-78 Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Sculpture
1981-84 Parsons School of Design, New York City, USA
1981-85 Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
1987 Columbia University, New York City, USA, Sculpture
1988 University of California, Davis, California USA, Sculpture
2000, 2005 Vermont Studio School, Johnson, Vermont,l USA

Awards And Prizes

1984-85, Fellowship (Sculpture), National Endowment for the Arts, USA
1987–88, Fellowship (Sculpture and Drawing), The Dr. Georg and Josi Guggenheim Foundation
1988 August St. Gaudens Memorial Fellowship
1989 Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1991 Grant, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York
2000 George and Janet Jaffin Prize for Excellence in Plastic Arts, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
2005 Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York