Jared Ginsburg works across painting, sculpture, drawing, video and performance, embracing unpredictability and chance. He considers his studio, which is central to his practice, as both a laboratory and an instrument of play and exploration. For Ginsburg, artmaking is seen as generative, breakable and endlessly mutable.
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Ginsburg focuses on materiality and the transformation of everyday objects. Through the work, Ginsburg sets conditions with marks, prompts and gestures, nudging relationships between ideas, objects and meaning. His objects and materials - key cases, plaster, string, rubber, wire, wood - function as propositions, their meaning evolving and relational.
Artist Bio
Jared Ginsburg b.185 lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa. The artist uses art-making to explore alternative modes of knowledge production and transfer. 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 international solo exhibitions; most recently, Lifelines at Goodman Gallery (2025). 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).
