Gaston Zvi Ickowicz

Gaston Zvi Ickowicz was born in 1974 in Buenos Aires and immigrated to Israel in 1980. He lives and works in Jerusalem. Ickowicz graduated from Musrara School of Photography, Jerusalem, and the Continuing Education Unit in the Arts, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. He is a photography lecturer at Bezalel and at the Kibbutzim College, Tel Aviv.

Through photography and video, his works focus on the Israeli-Palestinian landscape and the interaction between man and landscape in a socio-political context.

Ickowicz’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Israel and abroad. Selected solo exhibitions include Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv (2022); Schechter Gallery, Tel Aviv (2021); Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (2018); SMAC Berlin (2018); La Cite, Paris (2017); Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (2016); Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv (2015); Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2010). In addition, he has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including the Center for Digital Art, Holon; The Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem; Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv; Ashdod Art Museum; Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod; Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; MARCO – Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome; Tel Aviv Museum of Art.