Dana Levy
Dana Levy
Dana Levy was born in Israel to Egyptian and German parents, she was raised in the U.S, Israel and the U.K. Today she lives and works in New York City.
She earned her MA in Electronic Imaging at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art Dundee, Scotland and her BA from University of the Arts London: Camberwell College of Arts
SOLO SHOWS / SCREENINGS
2021 Currents 119: Dana Levy Solo exhibition St. Louis Art Museum
2019 The Weight Of Things – media room/ Fridman Gallery NYC
2017 Impermanent Displays – 8 recent videos Dana Levy Guest of Honor Art Market Budapest
This Was Home screening Contemporary Jewish Museum at Kadist Foundation San Francisco
This Was Home screening & discussion American Jewish University Los Angeles
2015 Literature of Storms, Israel Museum in Jerusalem solo project curated by Noam Gal
2014 Impermanent Display, Petach Tikva Museum of Art; Curated by Hila Cohen Schneiderman.
2013 The Wake, The Box at Wexner Art Center Columbus OH
The Wake & Dead World Order” ProjectSCREEN Oklahoma Museum of Art
No Man’s Language by Dana Levy- Tranzitdisplay Gallery Prague Screening and Panel discussion.
2012 World Order, Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv Israel curated by Maayan Shelef and Sergio Edelsztein.
The Fountain/The Wake- Ron Mandos Gallery Amsterdam,
The Fountain, Braverman Gallery Tel Aviv
The Wake Loop art fair Barcelona
2010 Wild Thing, Nicelle Beauchene gallery NYC
2008 Habitat Tavi Dresdner Gallery Tel Aviv;
2004 After The End Haifa Museum of Art curated by lIana Tenenbaum
Back to the Sea Rosenfeld Gallery Tel Aviv curated by Diana Dallal
GROUP SHOWS/ SCREENINGS
2022 Dissensus Legislation Planning Architecture Tel Aviv Museum of Art curated by Hadas Yossif-on and Meira Yagid
2021 Auf Ins KAFF Syker Vorwerk – Center for Contemporary Art; Syke Germany
13th International Festival of Media Art CYFEST.
FOTOMENTA Eretz Israel Museum
Examples To Follow curated by Adrienne Goehler Museum On The Seam Jerusalem
Onion City Film Festival
Oberhausen Film Festival
Life/Still Life Land -Museum On The Seam Jerusalem
This Is Not My Tree Nars Foundation
Videonale KunstMuseum Bonn
2020 Interfilm Berlin
Natural Glitch Musrara New Gallery Jerusalem.
Ground Water New Gallery Ramat Hasharon Israel
Land Without Land Beit Hankin Gallery Israel
Spectors Ashdod Museum of Art Israel
Last Man Bruno David gallery Media Room St. Louis MO
Vividus Petach Tikva Museum Of Art curated by Bar Yerushalmi
The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene DePaul Art Museum
2019 Rock, Paper, Scissors C24 Gallery NY: Dana Levy, Cheryl Molnar, Seçkin Pirim, Suzanne Song
Even The Trees Bleed Museum on The Seam Jerusalem Curated By Raphie Etgar
The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene University of Michigan Museum of Art
Interior Monologues- Visual Arts Center of New Jersey curated by Mary Birmingham.
2018 The Jewish Museum Frankfurt
MACRO Asylum- The MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art Rome Italy
The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene Harn Museum Florida
Recent video works from Israel curated by Hadas Maor Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris
New Video Works curated by Hadas Maor Petach Tikva Museum of Art
NURTUREart’s Single Channel: Anthology Film Archives NYC
“Intervention” Subte Gallery, Montevideo, Uruguay curated by Juan José Santos
To the End of Land National Gallery of Modern Art New Delhi India
2017 Mage-Organized by Roxana Fabius, Radiator Gallery NY
Screen City Biennial – Migrating Stories Stavanger, Norway
Lives Between- Center of Contemporary Art Tel Aviv curated by Joseph Del Pesco and Sergio Edelsztein
Oberhausen Film Festival Video Data Bank Distributors screening presented by Abina Manning
Almost Home: Between Staying and Leaving a Phantom Land at Dorsky Gallery
Deconstructing Borders curated by Maria Veits Student Palace, Dnipro, Ukraine
Terrace Thursdays: Multiple Multiples The Walker Art Center
Lives Between- Kadist San Francisco curated by Joseph Del Pesco and Sergio Edelsztein
Surface Unrest -Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery NYC curated by Alice Yi
Eccentric Spaces; Riccado Costanini Gallery; Turin Italy
Wax Museum- Approaching celebrities Haifa Museum of Art Curated by Revital Silverman
2016 The 6th Biennale for Drawing in Jerusalem curated by Sally Heftel and Edna Moshenson
Residual Historical Haunting Johannes Vogt Gallery NYC
EFA + Middle East curated by Bill Carroll opens at Shirin Gallery NYC
Coup de Ville 2016 Triennial Sint-Niklaas, Belgium. Artistic director: Stef Van Bellingen
(Dis)Place Ashdod Museum of Art – curated by Yuval Beaton and Roni Cohen-Binyamini
Les Rencontres Internationales , Paris at Gaîté Lyrique
2015 Enchanted Space: Marilyn Minter, Dana Levy, Anna K.E Fridman Gallery NYC organized by Barbra London
Artissima Art Fair Braverman Gallery Torino, Italy
Imagining Eden Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, FL
2014 Auto Body Art Basel Miami week curated by Anthony Spinello
Recapturing the Scenic Wilds Wave Hill, NYC curated by Gabriel de Guzman
Repurposing the Wunderkammer: Harn Museum of Art
Flaherty NYC – Waste, and Other Forms of Management -Anthology Film Archives
International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias Columbia
2013 The World And It’s Things In The Middle Of Their Intimacy Fridman Gallery NYC
Collecting Dust Israel Museum Jerusalem.
The Compromised Land:Recent Photography & Video from Israel The Neuberger Museum, NY
Tribeca Film Festival-Shorts: Let There Be Light: The Cycle of Life
International Festival for Art Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Rotterdam Film Festival
Oberhausen Film Festival
2012 Collectors in Le Havre Musee du Luxembourg, Nuit Blanche Paris curator : Annette Haudiquet
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid Palais de Tokyo Paris, France
Unnatural Bass Museum, Miami, Florida
“Cabinets of Wonder in Contemporary Art: From Astonishment to Disenchantment Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art Israel
“Art and Social Activism”: Curated by Nicholas Cohn in collaboration with Chashama
“Afterwards” Total Museum Seoul, Korea
“Magic Lantern: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art” Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
Just What Is It About The End Of The World That Makes It So Appealing curated by Mathieu Borysevicz; V-Art Center Shanghai, China
2011 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, at the Centre Pompidou
“One Two and … Three” Mani house, Tel Aviv ArtTLV biennial
“Israel from Within and from Without”- Rubin-Frankel Gallery, Boston University curated by Rinat Harel
2010 Kassel Dokfest festival
LUSH LIFE Invisible Exports Gallery NYC
Seven Easy Steps: Artistic Masterpieces : Horton Gallery NYC
Rotterdam Film Festival
Trembling Time: Recent Videos from Israel- Tate Modern London
Homeless Home- Museum on the Seam Jerusalem
Shelf Life -Haifa Museum of Art curated by Tami Katz Freiman and Rotem Ruff
2009 Hugging and Wrestling: Israeli Contemporary Art MOCA Cleveland
Nuit Blanche Michel Rein Gallery Paris, France
2008 Open Plan Living Helena Rubinstein pavilion, curator: Andrew Renton
Media Forum, Moscow Film Festival, Russia;
Art of the State The Jewish Museum Amsterdam,& Brussels;
The Homes of Others Ticho House ,Israel museum Jerusalem
Dead End, The Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University NYC
Seafaring-Route Artneuland Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Nuit Blanche Paris, France ;100% Tel Aviv
2006 Legal Aliens, Smack Melon Gallery, NY, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland ,Ohio Hamburg Short Film festival
Mediterranean Film Festival of Montpellier, France
Work/Slavery Museum On The Seam, Jerusalem curated by Rafi Etgar Disengagement Tel Aviv museum of Art, Israel
VideoZone- The exhibition; Israeli Biennale for Video Art;
2003 The Promise the Land ,OK Contemporary Art, Linz Austria curated by Stella Rolling
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2020 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Digital/Electronic Arts from The New York Foundation for the 2020
Artis Exhibition Grant
2019 -2020 The Freund Fellowship, St Louis Art Museum/Sam Fox School of Art and Design, Washington University in St Louis
2017 City of Budapest Talent Award
2014 AIRIE Everglades National Park Residency
2014 Wave Hill Winter Workspace residency New York, NY
2012-2013 LMCC Workspace NYC Residency
2013 Beatrice Kolliner Young Artist Award from the Israel Museum,
2011 Le Havre/ New York. Regards croisés Residency award
2011 Art Omi Residency
2011 I-park, Connecticut Residency
2009-2010 Triangle Arts Association NY 1 Year Residency
2010 Dumbo Arts Festival best studio award,
2008 Young Israeli Artist Award Ministry of Culture and Sport.
2007 A.I.R O’artoteca Residency Milan, Italy
2006 Hamburg Short Film festival jury award
2005 Hotel Pupik Residency Austria
2004 Museum Quartier Residency Vienna, Austria
2003- OK center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria Artist in Residence 2001 Atlantic Center for the Arts residency
TEACHING
2021 MA Student Mentor Oranim College Israel
2019 (Fall Semester) MFA Washington University St Louis
2014, 2018 MFA student mentor at Lesley University College of Art and Design
2016 Visiting Artist: 2 classes and studio visits with MFA student Art Institute of Chicago.
2009 Karov Documentary video project with 5th grade students in Neve Sharet
2008-2009 BFA Video art lecturer at Shankar College, Fine Art dpt.
2005 Photo project with Ethiopian Teens Ashkelon Israel
2004-2006 BA Video Art Technology Teaching College Kalisher Tel Aviv
1999-2005 BA Video Art Jerusalem school of Photography and New media
