Profile
Anton Ginzburg is a New York-based artist and educator, whose practice combines painting, graphic art, moving image, and architectural collaborations. He is known for his films, sculptures, paintings, and two-dimensional work investigating historical narratives and poetic studies of place, representation, and modernist form. He earned a BFA from Parsons, The New School and MFA degree from Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York and PhD from Middlesex Uniiversity, London. In 2021 Ginzburg was a research fellow at the Schaufler Lab at the Technical University of Dresden with the topic of Artificial Intelligence, Technology, and Creative Labor. He is a Parttime Faculty at Parsons, The New School (NY) undergraduate program (BFA) and Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute (NY) graduate program (MFA), and was a visiting artist and lecturer at Columbia University (GSAPP), University of Pennsylvania School of Visual Arts (NY), Technical University of Dresden, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Wyoming University, University of Lethbridge (Southern Alberta), University of Massachusetts and Goethe Institute.
His work has been shown at the 54th and 59th Venice Biennale, the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, Southern Alberta Art Gallery in Canada, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, White Columns in New York, Lille 3000 in Euralille, France, and Wyoming Art Museum. His films have been screened at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR), Dallas Symphony Orchestra (Soluna), Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Les Rencontres Internationales in Paris, Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Dresden Film Festival and New York Film Festival/Projections among others.
Degrees Held
PhD, Middlesex University, London
MFA, Bard College (Milton Avery Graduate School), Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
BFA, Parsons the New School for Social Research, New York, USA
Recent Publications
Monographs:
Anton Ginzburg: Dresden Modular, published by Sandstein Verlag,
essays by Lev Manovich, Gwendolyn Kremer, Rebekka Roschy, Axel Voigt
and Anton Ginzburg, 2023
Anton Ginzburg: Blue Flame. Constructions and Initiatives, published by Hatje Cantz,
essays by Ksenia Nouril, Anastasiya Osipova and conversations with R.H.Quaytman, Charles Renfro, and Meghan Forbes, 2020
Anton Ginzburg: VIEWs. published by Helwaser Gallery,
texts by Meghan Forbes and Junni Chen, 2019
Anton Ginzburg: Walking the Sea, published by Hatje Cantz,
essays by Claudia Schmuckli, Melanie Marino, Olesya Turkina and conversation with Dan Graham, 2014
Anton Ginzburg: At the Back of the North Wind, published by Hatje Cantz,
essays by Jeffrey Kastner, Matthew Drutt and conversation with Boris Groys, 2012
Catalogs:
Punk Orientalism: The Art of Rebellion, 2022
Publisher: Black Dog Pub Ltd, UK
Sara Raza (Writer and Editor)
Stagings. Soundings. Readings. Free Jazz II, 2018
Publisher: NTU Center for Contemporary Art, Singapore
Ute Meta Bauer (Editor)
The Village and the Revolution, 2017
Publisher: Austrian Cultural Forum,
Simon Mraz
(Editor)
Specters of Communism, 2015
Essay by Boris Groys
Publisher: e-flux and CUNY Graduate Center
Monolith Controversies: Chile National Pavilion,
Biennale Architettura 2014 (Venice)
Hugo Palmarola (Editor), Pedro Alonzo (Editor)
, text by Boris Groys
More Light, catalog of 5th Moscow Biennale, 2013
Catharine de Zegher (Editor)
IllumiNations, catalog of 54th Venice Biennale, 2011
Bice Curiger (Editor)
Research Interests
Continual research themes include Constructed Geographies, Semiotics, Archives, Displacements, Landscape, Architectural Narratives, Technology, and Modernist Imaginaries.
Portfolio
Anton Ginzburg website