Gaston Zvi Ickowicz (b. 1974, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a visual artist based in Israel, working primarily with photography and video. He immigrated to Israel in 1980. Ickowicz's artistic practice explores the dynamic relationship between people and landscape within complex socio-political contexts.
He graduated with honors from the Musrara School of Photography in Jerusalem (2000), and later completed advanced art studies at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem (2009).
Ickowicz has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions both in Israel and internationally. His work has been shown at major institutions including the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2011); Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (2008); The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (2016); Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv (2015); and MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome (2013), among others.
He is the recipient of several prestigious awards and grants, such as the Lauren & Mitchell Presser Contemporary Art Grant (2018), the Gerard Levi Young Photographer’s Prize from the Israel Museum (2008), and the Young Artist Award from the Israeli Ministry of Culture (2010).
In 2018, Ickowicz participated in a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, where he also held a solo exhibition. Alongside his artistic practice, he teaches photography at the Visual Communication Department at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, and at Seminar Hakibbutzim.