AVIV GRINBERG

AVIV GRINBERG

BIOGRAPHY
Aviv Grinberg (b. 1991, Herzliya) is an Israeli multidisciplinary artist based in Tel Aviv, working across painting, sculpture, and installation, much of it at the boundary between painting and object. For close to a decade his practice has centered on everyday cleaning objects — readymades, industrial plastic waste, defective containers, and tools such as carpet beaters — assembled into a visual language he calls the Language of Cleanliness. Through these materials he examines repression, concealment, control, and consumerism, tracing how systems of order shape personal memory and collective structures. His more recent work brings in organic imagery and ecological tension, questioning the desire for purity in a world marked by rupture and excess.

As published by the NARS Foundation, Grinberg’s biography places this practice against a personal background: he was raised in a family of Holocaust survivors, identifies as a gay man, lost a sister to mental illness, and served in the military as a prison guard. He and NARS describe these experiences as part of the conceptual foundation of his work.

He received his BFA with Excellence in 2017 from Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art.

EXHIBITIONS & RESIDENCIES
Solo exhibitions include I Opened the Door of Fire at the historic water tower in Kiryat Tivon, Inflating Errors at the Petah Tikva Museum of Art, and Synthetica at Corridor Contemporary. Group presentations include Givon Art Forum, Nassima Landau Art Space, Edmond de Rothschild Center, Zumu – The Traveling Museum, and City Gallery Kfar Saba. He has participated in the NARS International Residency, the Practical Magic Lab at Schechter Gallery, and the Mifal HaPais Art and Design Incubators.

HONORS
His honors include the Independent Creators Fund Grant and the Margaret and Sylvan Adams Prize for Emerging Artists, and a nomination for the Forbes Israel 30 Under 30 list.