Abridged Biography
Selected Awards and Grants
2005 – New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
2000 – The George and Janet Jaffin Award, America–Israel Cultural Foundation
1991 – The Pollock–Krasner Foundation Grant
1989 – The Sandberg Prize, Israel Museum
1987–1988 – Guggenheim Fellowship, Sculpture and Drawing
1984–1985 – National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Sculpture
Selected Permanent Collections
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Lauffs Collection, Krefeld, Germany
Ludwig Museum, Köln, Germany
Mannheim Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany
MOMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
Rijksmuseum, Kröeller - Müller, Otterlo, Netherlands
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021 – Michael Gitlin: Compressions, Sean Scully Studio, New York
2014 – Michael Gitlin: 16 Works, Petach Tikva Museum of Art. Curator: Drorit Gur Arie, Israel
1991 – Michael Gitlin, MuKHA (Museum of Contemporary Art), Antwerp, Belgium
1990 – Michael Gitlin, 1982–1989, Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Pittsburgh. Curator: Elaine King
1989 – Michael Gitlin, Städtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany. Curator: Jochen Kronjäger
1988 – Broken Infinity, 1986–1988, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany. Curator: Annelie Pohlen
1986 – Nostalgia, Kunstforum der Städtischen Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany. Curator: Helmut Friedel
1986 – Sculpture and Drawings, Kunstraum, Munich, Germany. Curator: Christine Tacke
1980 – Equilibrium, I.C.C., Antwerp, Belgium, Curator: Florent Bex
1977 – Michael Gitlin: Works: 1974–77, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel. Curator: Yona Fischer
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013 – Nach der Sprache (After Language), Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany. Curator: Peter Friese
2008 – Minimal and Conceptual Art in Europe from the Helga and Walther Lauffs Collection. David Zwirner Gallery, New York
1986 – SkulpturSein, Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany. Curators: Harald Szeeman and Jürgen Harten
1985 – Vom Zeichnen 1960–1985, Frankfurter Kunstverein.
1977 – Dokumenta 6, Kassel, Germany. Curator: Manfred Schneckenburger
Videos
2014 – Michael Gitlin: 16 Works, Petach Tikva Museum of Art2014
BOOKS
1991 – MoMA Artist’s Original Book: Michael Gitlin: Point of Departure. Book of eight etchings, (Santa Monica: Edition Jacob Samuel, 1991)