Gallery Owner, Goodman Gallery
Linda Givon owns one of South Africa's most important commercial galleries for contemporary art. Givon was born in Johannesburg in 1936 and, after studying both in South Africa and abroad, established the Goodman Gallery in 1966. She has discovered and promoted many prominent artists including Dumile Feni, Sydney Kumalo, Penny Siopis, Cecil Skotnes, William Kentridge, Robert Hodgins and Sam Nhlengethwa. Through the Eighties Givon promoted South African artists abroad, with the permission of the cultural desk in London. This was done predominantly in Basel at the world's most prestigious art fair. Today the Goodman Gallery still exhibits at important art events abroad. Givon has also been instrumental in arranging groundbreaking exhibitions at the Johannesburg Art Gallery, for example, the major William Kentridge retrospective in 2005. Givon's collaboration with photographer David Goldblatt resulted in the publication of the book Particulars in 2004, which won Europe's most important book prize, the Rencontre d'Arles award.
Source: Mail and Guardian Online, SA
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