David Ginton was born in 1947 in Tel Aviv. Between 1969 and 1975 he studied part-time studies at the Faculty of Architecture in Haifa and in the History of Art and Philosophy at the Hebrew University. He taught at the Art Department at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and at the Art Faculty of Beit Berl College. He won the America Israel Prize and twice the Minister of Culture Prize.

The beginning of his artistic career in the 1970s was marked by the significance of painting as a central medium bearing art. Later on, under the influence of conceptual art, which ignored the media differences, his works were made using photography, texts and objects. Art and its work as a subject of work (venom poetics) became the heart of his work. In this way, Ginton positioned himself in relation to Western art to emphasize his commitment to the history of art and at the same time his peripheral position as an Israeli artist.

In the early 1990s, Ginton became the back of the painting as the main subject of his work. First in a series of "backside" photographs of paintings from the Israeli and International Collection of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and later in the back-end paintings of the tradition of Trompe L'oeil, which have been the sole subject of his work to this day. In these works, which were presented as groups: "The English painter", "Gan-Eden Conceptual" and "The empty group," there is a dialectical relationship between one and the other.

David Ginton's work body embodies the ability of the work to exist on one level with the interpretation of it, and thus the interpretative act becomes the living flesh of the painting