David Rabinowitch

David Rabinowitch (born March 6, 1943) is a Canadian visual artist who exhibits internationally and is best known for his non-representational steel constructions that develop the traditions of modernist sculpture. New York Magazine said in 2008 that his work is related to Minimalism, but it comes from a different angle than most American examples such as that of Carl Andre or Richard Serra.

Career Rabinowitch was born in Toronto, Ontario, and is the twin brother of sculptor Royden Rabinowitch. He studied at the University of Western Ontario and the Ontario College of Art, Toronto. From 1969 to 1984, the Carmen Lamanna Gallery in Toronto was his dealer.

In 2003, he had a major retrospective at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, his first major solo exhibition in Canada. He is represented by the Peter Blum Gallery in New York. In late 2010 to early 2011, the Peter Blum Gallery exhibited Birth of Romanticism: New Works on Paper. A reviewer wrote of it: "The wildness of Birth of Romanticism comes as a shock. While Rabinowitch's art has often rippled with sublimated emotion and maculate tactility, these drawings suggest that its internal tensions have precipitated an irreparable rupture with its own past, eradicating its Platonic surface to expose a jarring, multi-leveled parallel world."

In 2019, he exhibited Périgord Construction of Vision Drawings, a series at the Peter Blum Gallery, which derived from his visits to the Périgord region in southern France and visits to Romanesque churches.

He is represented in such collections as the following: the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; and the Chinati Foundation. (1976) and made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. He also taught at Yale University (1974-1975) and at Düsseldorf (1984).