EFA STUDIO PROGRAM: Member Artists
Dana levy
I work in the media of video, photography, sculpture and installation.
My work is influenced by a childhood spent between countries and cultures, as the daughter of an Egyptian-German couple. My transcultural biography has prompted me to interpret diverse cultures and customs through readings of their objects and artifacts.
I explore home interiors, historical sites and museums, botanical gardens, and archives.
I'm fascinated with the domestication of nature, with classifying mechanisms and cataloging – In the past decade, my work has focused on the apocalyptic: a sinking civilization caught in the struggle between nature and culture; the vulnerability of mankind and of the world.
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Dana Levy was born in Tel Aviv and Lives and works in New York. She was the 2019/2020 Freund Teaching Fellow at the Sam Fox School of Art in Washington University, St. Louis. She was the 2020 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Digital/Electronic Arts from The New York Foundation for the Arts. Other awards include the 2017 City of Budapest talent Award, and the 2013 the Beatrice Kolliner Award from the Israel Museum.
Her solo exhibition Currents 119: Dana Levy at the Saint Louis Art Museum opened in February 2021, other solo exhibitions include at Fridman Gallery NYC (2019), The Israel Museum Jerusalem (2015), Petach Tikva Museum of Art (2014), Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv (2012), Nicelle Beauchene Gallery NYC (2010), and more.
She has participated in group shows and screenings including at Videonale at the Kunstmuseum in Bonn (2021), C24 gallery NYC (2019) Screen City Biennal Stavanger (2018), Kadist Gallery San Francisco (2017), Johannes Vogt Gallery NYC (2016), Fridman Gallery NY (2015) Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena (2014), Wexner Center of Art (2012), The Bass Museum (2012), Tribeca Film Festival (2013), The Tel Aviv Museum (2016), Harn Museum of Art (2019), Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (2010), Tate London (2010), Invisible Exports NY (2010) and more.
Residencies include AIRIE Everglades National Park, Wave Hill Workspace, LMCC Workspace, Art Omi, I-Park, and Triangle Arts Association NY, Ok Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria, and Museumsquartier, Vienna.
Currently, she is part of of the 12th Berlin Biennale, with two new works: History Lessons and Erasing The Green: an installation of 32 prints: documents, photographs, and maps accompanied by a video with two experts who discuss the blurring of the Green Line in Israel. A previous version of the work is currently on view at The Tel Aviv Museum's show Dissensus Legislation, Planning, Architecture. She is also currently taking part in Düsseldorf photo+. Other group exhibitions include Videonale 18 Kunstmuseum Bonn (2021), C24 gallery NYC (2019), Screen City Biennale (2018), Kadist Gallery San Francisco (2017), Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena (2014), Wexner Center of Art (2012), The Bass Museum (2012),
