Hope Ginsburg was born in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania in 1974. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from Tyler School of Art (1996) and a Master of Science in Visual Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2007). Ginsburg is the recipient of MIT’s Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts (2007) as well as MIT’s Laya and Jerome B. Wiesner Award (2007). She has exhibited her work at venues such as P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, The Baltimore Museum of Art, the Wexner Center for the Arts, SculptureCenter, Socrates Sculpture Park, American Fine Arts, and at Kunst-Werke in Berlin. In addition, she has had solo exhibitions at Solvent Space in Richmond, Virginia as well as the Julia Friedman Gallery and Parlour Projects in New York. She has been an artist-teacher in the MFA program at Vermont College, and a visiting artist at institutions including Maine College of Art, Des Moines Art Center, and at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT. Ginsburg lives and works in Richmond, Virginia, where she is Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts.

Ginsburg’s work is an ongoing investigation of the way knowledge is absorbed, exchanged, and represented. Creating participatory events called Sponges and the immersive environments in which those events take place, she produces works that are part alternative school, part experimental theater, and part multimedia installation. Her projects examine relationships between experts and learners, and between divergent fields of study.