The Gallery was founded in 1974 by Sam Givon on Gordon Street in Tel Aviv.
[1] In 1979 his daughter, Naomi (Noemi) opened the Givon Contemporary Art Gallery.
Since the founder's death in 2000, the Gallery has been managed by Naomi Givon and is co-owned with her sister, Nurit Wolf, an attorney.
[2][3][4] In 2012 Givon completed the architecturally notable renovation of an abandoned 1890 house in Tel Aviv's Neve Tzedek neighborhood.
[5][6] Artists represented by Givon include Pinchas Cohen Gan,[7] Micha Ullman,[8] Moshe Gershuni,[9] Raffi Lavie[2][10] The Shmuel Givon Prize is awarded annually in the founder's memory by the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.