Michael Gitlin (born 1943 in Cape Town, South Africa) is a contemporary sculptor.

Gitlin received his BA in English Literature and Art History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1967).

Gitlin is a member of the generation of Post-Minimalist artists working in Manhattan and Europe in the early 1970s that included Gordon Matta-Clark, Benni Efrat, Joel Shapiro, Joshua Neustein, Robert Grosvenor, Nahum Tevet, and Ulrich Rückriem, among others.

In a 1996 catalogue for a show at Katrin Rabus Gallery in Bremen, Germany, Barry Schwabsky describes Gitlin's work as "characterized above all by its restlessness [...].

[1] In recent years, Gitlin has worked with steel wool, copper wire, foam, and black spandex.