Jared Ginsburg uses art-making to explore alternative modes of knowledge production and transfer. He recognizes art as a tool, a means to test and probe the world, hoping to nurture new strategies for productive engagement. Ginsburg employs a range of media types in his practice, including painting, sculpture, drawing, video and performance. Seeking “indeterminacy or chance operations” in his process, Ginsburg’s studio plays a significant role; at once a lab, an instrument and a character in conversation.
To date, Ginsburg has had eleven solo exhibitions, both locally and internationally; most recently Paintings at Ben Hunter Gallery in London (2024) and objects move across a room at blank projects in Cape Town (2023). Group shows include Passage to Promise at Gregor Podnar in Vienna (2023), lO at blank projects, Cape Town (2023), quel jour sommes-nous? at Tokonoma in Kassel (2022), A Line Beyond at AVA Gallery, Cape Town (2021), The thing itself exists everywhere at blank projects, Cape Town (2021), 021 - 2021 at Stevenson, Amsterdam (2021), More for Less at A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town (2018), Artists and Architecture, Variable Dimensions at the Emily Harvey Foundation, New York (2016), and The Morning I Killed A Fly at Galleria Mazzoli, Modena, Italy (2015). In 2018, Ginsburg participated in the Idris Naim residency in Oaxaca, Mexico, culminating in the group exhibition Hacer Noche.
Ginsburg’s work is represented in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago), A4 Arts Foundation (Cape Town), the Rennie Museum (Vancouver) and Astrup Fearnley (Oslo).
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curriculum vitae
1985 Born in Cape Town, South Africa
education
2010 Bachelor of Fine Art, University of Cape Town
solo exhibitions
2024 Paintings, Ben Hunter, London, UK
2023 objects move across a room, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2022 All my love, Blue Projects, London, UK
2021 Letters, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2021 Stills, Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna, Austria
2020 Hanging Drawings, Maitland Institute, Cape Town, South Africa
2018 Measuring Nothing, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2017 Interludes, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2015 The Natural World parts 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2013 Body Parts, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2011 Hoist, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa
group exhibitions
2023 Passage to Promise, Gregor Podnar, Vienna, Austria
2023 Fullhouse, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2023 The Orange River, SixtySix London, London, UK
2023 lO, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2022 quel jour sommes-nous?, Tokonoma, Kassel, Germany
2021 Works on paper, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
2021 A Line Beyond, AVA Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2021 021 - 2021, Stevenson, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2021 The thing itself exists everywhere, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2019 the head the hand, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2019 Sculpture, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Réunion, Réunion Island
2019 CONDO London, hosted by Corvi-Mora and greengrassi, London, UK
2018 open agenda, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2018 Hacer Noche, Centro Cultural Santo Domingo, Oaxaca de Juarez, Mexico
2018 Both, And, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
2018 Sculpture, Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean, Port Louis, Mauritius
2018 blank, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, Germany
2018 Sculpture, Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean, Port Louis, Mauritius
2018 More for Less, A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa
2017 17, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2017 A Painting Today, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
2016 Figure, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2016 I Love You Sugar Kane, Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean, Port Louis, Mauritius
2016 Special Projects: Loop with Bamboo III, The Armory Show, New York, USA
2016 Artists and Architecture, Variable Dimensions, Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, USA
2016 3 881 days, blank lab, Cape Town, South Africa
2016 Bootleg Triennial, Atlantic House, Cape Town, South Africa
2015 The Morning I Killed A Fly, Galleria Mazzoli, Modena, Italy
2015 Two Ends of a Line, FNB Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa
2015 Furniture: a sculpture exhibition, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2013 This is the thing, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2013 Body Parts, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2013 blank projects in Johannesburg, Ithuba Arts Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2013 Housewarming, Atlantic House, Cape Town, South Africa
2013 An Experiment to Test the Destiny of the World, SLICA at Ithuba Arts Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2013 Bazaar II, Fairweather House, Cape Town, South Africa
2013 blank projects, Art Cologne/NADA 2013, Germany
2012 Independent Publishing Project, Goethe, Johannesburg, South Africa
2012 Bootleg, Evil Son, Cape Town, South Africa
2012 Very Real Time, Paris, France
2012 Coming of Age: 21 years of Artist Proof Studio, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2012 Out of thin air, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
2012 Sounding Out,in collaboration with Josh Ginsburg, Bag Factory, Johannesburg, South Africa
2012 Coming of Age, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2012 When Form Becomes Attitude, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2011 Independent Publishing Project, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2010 / + = X , Serialworks, Cape Town, South Africa
awards
2013 Selected by Business Day’s Wanted magazine as a Young African Artist (YAA)
2010 Michaelis Prize
2010 Simon Gershwin Prize
