In a body of work that spans over a decade, Hope Ginsburg has engaged contexts such as corporations, universities and farms, and imagined who she can be within them. As employee, student, teacher and researcher, she has made sense of those contexts through direct participation and generated projects in the form of contributions, oppositions and propositions.

Hope Ginsburg grew up outside of Philadelphia and received her BFA in sculpture from the Tyler School of Art. After attending the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture she moved to New York City where for the next eight years she produced installations and performances. She then moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts to study at MIT where she received a Master of Science in Visual Studies.

Ginsburg has exhibited her work at venues such as MoMA P.S.1 (NYC), The Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore), Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus), SculptureCenter (NYC), Socrates Sculpture Park (NYC), American Fine Arts (NYC), and Kunst-Werke (Berlin). In addition, she has had solo exhibitions at CUE Art Foundation (NYC) and Solvent Space (Richmond), as well as the Julia Friedman Gallery (NYC) and Parlour Projects (NYC). She has been an artist-teacher in the MFA programs at Vermont College and Maine College of Art, and a visiting artist at institutions including the Bauhaus University, the Center for Advanced Visual Studies and NSCAD University. Ginsburg served on the advisory board of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies from 2004-2006 and she has been on the board of Mildred’s Lane in Beach Lake, Pennsylvania since 2008. She is the recipient of a 2011 Art Matters Fellowship.

In the fall of 2007 she moved to Richmond VA where she is an Assistant Professor in the Art Foundation and Painting & Printmaking departments at VCUarts. Her ongoing project, Sponge, which was born of the culture of pedagogy, experimentation and learning by doing at MIT in 2006, is now headqartered at the VCUarts Anderson Gallery.