Pinchas Cohen Gan

Pinhas Cohen Gan
Born	1942 Meknes, Morocco
Nationality	Israeli
Field	Painter and mixed-media artist
Movement	Israeli art

Pinchas Cohen Gan (Hebrew: פנחס כהן גן‎) (born 1942) is an Israeli painter and mixed-media artist.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Education 3 Teaching 4 Awards and Prizes 5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External Links

Biography

Pinhas Cohen Gan was born in Meknes, Morocco. He immigrated to Israel in 1949. He studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London prior to receiving a baccalaureate in social science and the history of art at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1973.

In 1975, Gan returned to painting and drawing, often employing faceless figures as symbols in a non-specific space. From 1975 to 1977, he studied with Meyer Schapiro (1904–1996) at Columbia University in New York City, receiving an MFA in 1977. He then returned to Tel Aviv, where he currently resides.

Education

• 1967-70 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Academy of Art, Jerusalem, advanced studies
• 1971 Central School of Art, London
• 1971-73 B.A. social sciences and art, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
• 1975-77 M.F.A. in arts, Columbia University of Arts, New York

Teaching

• 1971-75 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem

Awards and Prizes

• 1978 America-Israel Cultural Foundation
• 1978 Isaac Stern Creativity Prize
• 1979 Sandberg Prize, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
• 1991 Eugene Kolb Prize for Israeli Graphics
• 1991 Minister of Education Prize
• 1999 Acquisition Prize, Tel Aviv Museum
• 2005 Prize for Life's Work in Plastic Art, Ministry of Education
• 2005 Gan was awarded the Dizengoff Prize for Painting.^[1]
• 2008 The Israel Prize in painting.^[2][3]

See also

• List of Israel Prize recipients

References

Further reading

• Barron, S. & M. Tuchman, Seven Artists in Israel 1948-1978. Arie Aroch, Pinchas Cohen Gan, Moshe Kupferman, Joshua Neustein, Nahum Tevet, Anna Ticho, Josef Zaritsky, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1978.
• Beesch, Ruth K, Kristine Stiles & Peter Selz, Figure, Form, Formula: The Art of Pinchas Cohen Gan, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1996.
• Dvir Gallery, Pinchas Cohen Gan. Cosmos.Pathos. Chaos, Tel-Aviv, Dvir Gallery, 1988.
• Israel Museum, Pinchas Cohen Gan, Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 1974.

External Links

• Pinchas Cohen Gan from the collections of the Israel Museum
• Pinchas Cohen Gan from the Israeli artist list of the Information Center for Israeli Art at the Israel Museum
• Pinchas Cohen Gan Europeana – Search results

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