Pinchas Cohen Gan (born 1942) is an Israeli

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 painter and mixed-media artist

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Biography

Pinhas Cohen Gan was born in Meknes, Morocco

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. He immigrated to Israel in 1949. He studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design

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 in Jerusalem and at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design

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 in London prior to receiving a baccalaureate in social science and the history of art at Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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 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

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 (1904–1996) at Columbia University

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 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

Awards

• 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
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   Museum
• 2005 Prize for Life's Work in Plastic Art, Ministry of Education
• 2005 Gan was awarded the Dizengoff Prize
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   for Painting.
• 2008 TheIsrael Prize
  Israel Prize
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   in painting.

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
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• Pinchas Cohen Gan from the Israeli artist list of the Information Center for Israeli Art
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   at the Israel Museum
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