Dana Levy was born in Tel Aviv to Egyptian and German parents, she was raised in the U.S, Israel and the U.K. 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
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Intrusions Braverman Gallery
2024 Silent Among Us Eres Foundation Munich Germany
2022 The Wake Flint Institute of Arts, Security Credit Union Gallery
2021 Currents 119: Dana Levy St. Louis Art Museum
2019 The Weight Of Things -Fridman Gallery NYC
2017 Impermanent Displays – 8 recent videos Dana Levy Guest of Honor of Art Market Budapest
2015 Literature of Storms, Israel Museum Jerusalem
2014 Impermanent Display, Petach Tikva Museum of Art
2013 The Wake, The Box at Wexner Art Center Columbus OH
2012
World Order, Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv Israel
The Fountain/The Wake– Ron Mandos Gallery Amsterdam (Two person show)
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 Back To The Sea Rosenfeld Gallery Tel Aviv
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS + SCREENINGS
2024
Yalla Habibi. Arab-Jewish touches The Jewish Museum Hohenems (upcoming September 2024)
2023
No Grey Zones Voloshyn Gallery Miami
Learning To Read With Lips and Stones Below Grand Gallery NYC
This Place We Once Remembered Wave Hill Glyndor Gallery
Zumu Museum On The Move Akko, Israel
2022
Culture Summit Abu Dhabi curated by Galit Eilat
Animal Games Project Space at GlogauAIR Berlin
12th Berlin Biennale Still Present Curated by Kader Attia + team
FestivAlt Krakow Poland
Think We Must! Akademie-Galerie Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf photo +, Biennale for Visual and Sonic Media)
Dissensus Legislation Planning Architecture/ Tel Aviv Museum of Art
In a Missing Place– The American University Museum Washington DC Curated by Noam Segal
Dread In The Eyes– The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts NYC
2021
Videonale.18 Fluid states. Solid matter Kunst Museum Bonn
Auf Ins KAFF Syker Vorwerk – Center for Contemporary Art; Syke Germany
Photomenta Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
Examples To Follow curated by Adrienne Goehler Museum On The Seam Jerusalem
Onion City Film Festival Boston
Oberhausen Film Festival
This Is Not My Tree – Nars Foundation New York
2020
Interfilm – International Short Film Festival Berlin
Natural Glitch Musrara New Gallery Jerusalem.
Ground Water New Gallery Ramat Hasharon Israel
Ghosts Ashdod Museum of Art Israel
Vividus Petach Tikva Museum Of Art curated by Bar Yerushalmi
2019
Rock, Paper, Scissors C24 Gallery NYC:
Even The Trees Bleed Museum on The Seam Jerusalem Curated By Raphie Etgar
Interior Monologues- Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
2018
Open House 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
To the End of Land National Gallery of Modern Art New Delhi India
2017
Mage-Organized by Roxana Fabius, Radiator Gallery NY
Migrating Stories Screen City Biennial Stavanger, Norway
Lives Between part 1– Kadist Arts Foundation San Francisco
Lives Between part 2– Center of Contemporary Art Tel Aviv
Oberhausen Film Festival
Almost Home: Between Staying and Leaving a Phantom Land at Dorsky Gallery
Surface Unrest -Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery NYC
Eccentric Spaces; Riccado Costanini Gallery; Turin Italy
2016
Residual Historical Haunting Johannes Vogt Gallery NYC
(Dis)Place Ashdod Museum of Art –
Les Rencontres Internationales , Paris at Gaîté Lyrique
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
Art and Social Activism: 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 V-Art Center Shanghai, China
2011
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, at the Centre Pompidou
One Two and … Three Mani house, Tel Aviv part of 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
2009
Hugging and Wrestling Contemporary Israeli Photography and Video
Nuit Blanche Michel Rein Gallery Paris, France
2008
Open Plan Living Helena Rubinstein pavilion, Tel Aviv Museum of Art part of ArtTLV biennial
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
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Saint Louis Art Museum
The American University Museum in Washington D.C,
Musée d’Art Moderne André Malraux Le Havre
Fotomuseum Winterthur in Winterthur, Switzerland
Haaretz Art Collection
Petach Tikva Museum
Ashdod Museum Of Art
Herzelia Museum of Art
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Israel Museum
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2022 Artis Exhibition Grant for exhibition Berlin Biennale
2020 Artis Exhibition Grant for exhibition Currents 119/ Dana Levy
2020 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Digital/Electronic Arts from The New York Foundation for the Arts
2019-2020 The Freund Fellowship 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 Residency
2010 Dumbo Arts Festival best studio award,
2008 Young Israeli Artist Award Ministry of Culture and Sport.
2006 Report From The Land Of Dreams traveling grant and residency initiated by curator Harm Lux
2007 A.I.R O’artoteca Residency Milan, Italy
2006 Hamburg Short Film festival jury award
SELECTED LECTURES/ VISITING ARTIST INVITATIONS/ TEACHING
2022 Limmud Berlin Talk and Screening
2022 Brandeis College MFA Visiting Artist
2022 Washington University St Louis Architecture Department Visiting Artist
2021 Oranim College Of Education Israel MA Student Mentor
2021 NYU Department of Photography & Imaging Institute of Emerging Media Visiting Artist
2021 Videonale Kunst Museum Bonn Public Talk about Video Last Man
2021 St Louis Art Museum – Solo exhibition Artist Talk
2020 In Conversation with Dienna Rockefeller Elisabeth Foundation for the Arts
2019 Sam Fox School of Art and Design Washington University St Louis Artist Talk
2019 Visiting Artist SVA Photography Deptartment
2019 Artist mentor MFA Fine Art Sam Fox School of Art and Design, Washington University in St Louis
2014, 2018 MFA student mentor at Lesley University College of Art and Design
2017 Impermanent Display artist talk Art Market Budapest
2017 This Was Home discussion with Rotem Rozental American Jewish University Los Angeles
2017 This Was Home discussion with Joseph Del Pesco Kadist Foundation
2016 Visiting Artist: 2 classes and studio visits with MFA student Art Institute of Chicago.
2016 Conversations From The Edge – organized by School of The Art Institute Chicago at the Gene Siskel Film Center Impermanent Display artist talk
2015 Marlyn Minter, Dana Levy Anna K.E in conversation with Barbara London at Fridman Gallery
2014 School of Visual Arts NY Naturally Hypernatural: Visions of Nature Conference Speaker
2013 Independent Curators International Belongings Dana Levy in conversation with writer Naomi Lev
2008-2009 BFA Video art and Experimental Cinema lecturer at Shankar College, Fine Art
2009 Karov- A Municipality of Tel Aviv project commission in collaboration with 5th grade students in Neve Sharet primary school.