Biography
David Nelson Gimbel is a photographer, historian, and an archaeologist.
His first solo museum exhibit, Vijayanagara: Life and Architecture in the last Hindu Capital of India (ancient and modern), will be on view this Fall (2008), at The National Museum of Slovenia (Narodni muzej Slovenije): Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Visual Anthropologies, his first solo gallery exhibition, was displayed at the Haven Gallery in New York City, during Fall of 2006, and his work has recently been published by Vogue.
He received his doctorate (D.Phil.) from the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford (UK); his M.A. degree in art history and archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; and studied art history, archaeology, and ancient languages as a postgraduate at Harvard University and at Columbia University.
He has taught archaeology at Oriental Institute of the University of Vienna and co-directed joint archaeological excavations with the University of Vienna in Syria.
In 1999, he founded Archaeos, Inc, a non-profit organization in New York City dedicated to archaeological research and education. He directed the Archaeos Survey Project at Vijayanagara, India, is the Co-Director of The Iraq War & Archaeology, Documentation and Information Project.
He has been invited by NATO, the Austrian military, and other organizations to lecture about the protection of cultural property during the event of armed conflict; he also served for several years as the Associate Director and the Cultural Information Manager for the Getty Conservation Institute & World Monuments Fund Iraq Cultural Heritage Conservation Initiative.
He currently resides in New York City and in South Africa.