Full Biography

1943 – Born, Cape Town, South Africa

Education

1972 – MMFA, Pratt Institute, New York, USA1967BA Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
1963–1967 – Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem, Israel

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
1988 – Augustus St. Gaudens Memorial Fellowship
1987–1988 – Guggenheim Fellowship, Sculpture and Drawing
1984–1985 – National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Sculpture

Teaching

1988 – University of California, Davis, California, USA
1987 – Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
1985 – Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem, Israel
1981–1984 – Parsons School of Design, New York, USA

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)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2021 – Michael Gitlin: Compressions, Sean Scully Studio, New York
2017 – Michael Gitlin: 40 years apart, Gordon gallery, Tel Aviv
2014 – Michael Gitlin: 16 Works, Petach Tikva Museum of Art
2011 – Michael Gitlin: Works from the 70's, Henrique Faria Fine Art, New York, USA
2011 – Schüppenhauer Galerie + Projekte, Köln, Germany
2003 – Unconventional Three-Dimensions, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, USA
2001 – Schüppenhauer Galerie + Projekte, Köln, Germany
1999 – N&N Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1999 – Cornelissen Gallery, Schlangebad/Georgenborn, Germany
1998 – Stark Gallery, New York, USA
1997 – Rabus Gallery, Bremen, Germany
1994 – Primo Piano Gallery, Rome, Italy-Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam
1992 – Stark Gallery, New York, USA-Rabus Gallery, Bremen, Germany
1992 – Schüppenhauer Gallery, Köln, Germany
1991 – Michael Gitlin , MuHKA (Museum of Contemporary Art), Antwerp, Belgium
1990 – Michael Gitlin, 1982–1989, Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA, 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
1988 – John Davis Gallery, New York, USA-Stark Gallery, New York, USA
1988 – Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1986 – Nostalgia, Kunstforum der Städtischen Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany, Curator: Helmut Friedel
1986 – Temporary Shelters, John Davis Gallery, New York
1986 – Sculpture and Drawings, Kunstraum, Munich, Germany, Curator: Christine Tacke
1985 – Michael Gitlin Sculpture and Drawings 1982–85, Exit Art, New York, USA, Curator: Jeanette Ingberman
1985 – Emmerich-Baumann Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
1984 – Stampa Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
1981 – Schmela Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
1981 – Stampa Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
1980 – Equilibrium, I.C.C., Antwerp, Belgium, Curator: Florent Bex
1980 – Michael Gitlin: Works: 1974–80, Städtische Galerie, Erlangen, Germany (traveled to Kunstverein, Ingolstadt, Germany)
1979 – Schellmann and Klüser Gallery, Munich, Germany
1978 – Schmela Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany-Primo Piano Gallery, Rome, Italy
1978 – Swart Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands-Stampa Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
1977 – Michael Gitlin: Works: 1974–77, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel, Curator: Yona Fischer
1977 – Swart Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1976 – Schmela Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany-Stampa Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
1976 – O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, USA
1975 – Michael Gitlin: 4 x 8 Series, O.K. Harris Gallery, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions

2013 – Nach der Sprache (After Language), Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
2009 – New York in Amsterdam: Louise Bourgeois, John Coplans, Joel Fisher, Michael Gitlin, Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
2008 – Minimal and Conceptual Art in Europe from the Helga and Walther Lauffs Collection, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, US
2008 – The Boundaries of Language: Perspectives on Israeli Art of the Seventies, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel, Curator: Mordechai Omer
2006 – Marl Sculpture Museum, Marl, Germany
2001 – Sculpture, Stark Gallery, New York
2000 – The End: An Independent Vision of Contemporary Culture: 1982–2000, Exit Art, New York, Curators: Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman
1998 – Equivalences, Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1995 – Critical Mass, Yale University Art Gallery (Traveled to "The Mac"– the Dallas Artists' Research & Exhibition, New Haven, Connecticut, USA), Curator: Charles Long
1994 – Prints of Darkness, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
1994 – Routes of Wandering, The Israel Museum, Israel, Jerusalem, Curator: Sarit Shapira
1990 – Scultura in America, 2 Biennale Internazionale di Scultura Contemporanea 1990, Circolo la Scaletta, Matera, Italy
1989 – In The Shadow Of Conflict: Israeli Art 1980-1989, The Jewish Museum, New York. Curator: Susan Tumarkin Goodman
1988 – Innovations in Sculpture 1985–1988, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA. Curator: Ellen O'Donnel
1988 – Contemporary Syntax: Structure and Geometry, Robeson Center Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
1988 – Ironic Abstraction, University of Southern Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA
1987 – Space Framed IV, Gund Hall Gallery, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, Curator: Margaret Reeve
1987 – Drawings From The Eighties, Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh. Curator: Elaine King
1986 – SkulpturSein, Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany, Curator: Harald Szeeman and Jürgen Harten
1985 – Vom Zeichnen 1960–1985, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany (Traveled to the Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, and Kasseler Kunstverein)
1985 – Art In Israel 1906-1985, Koninklijk Museum, voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium
1984 – 1983-1984, Two Years Israeli Art. Qualities Accumulated. Tel Aviv Museum, Israel
1978 – Daniel Templon Gallery, Paris, France-Drawings from New York, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland
1977 – Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany, Curator: Manfred Schneckenburger

Permanent Collections

The Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, USA
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Herzlia Museum of Art, Herzlia, Israel
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA
Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
The Jewish Museum, New York, USA
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Lauffs Collection, Krefeld, Germany
Ludwig Museum, Köln, Germany
Mannheim Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany
Marl Sculpture Museum, Marl, Germany
MoMA, New York, NY
MUSMA Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, Matera, Italy
Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
The New School Art Collection, New York
New York Public Library, New York, USA
Panza Collection, Varese, Italy
Rijksmuseum, Kröeller - Müller, Otterlo, Netherlands
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
Städtische Galerie, Erlangen, Germany
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Wilhelm-Hack-Museum und Städtische Kunstsammlungen, Ludwigshafen, Germany
Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg, Germany

Corporate Collections

Baer Bank, Zürich, Switzerland
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, USA
Clariden Lev Bank, Zürich Coltec Industries, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
SIG Combibloc, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Credit Suisse, Zug, Switzerland
DeBevoise & Plimpton, New York, USA
Deutsche Telekom, Bonn, Germany
Dresdner Bank, New York, USA
FIBI Bank Switzerland Ltd., Zürich, Switzerland
I.D.B, Israel
Israel Discount Bank, New York, USA
Landesbank, Bremen, Germany
Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe LLP, New York, USA
Phoenix Insurance Company, Tel Aviv, Israel
Price Waterhouse Inc., New York, USA
Sidley Austin LLP, New York, USA
Siemens, Munich, Germany
The Private Bank, Chicago, USA
UTAC of America Inc., New York, USA