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Impermanent Display

Dana Levy

2014 00:07:50 IsraelHebrewColorStereo16:9HD video

Description

Museum collections of various kinds are the object of artist Dana Levy's ongoing, consistent study in the past decade. Levy traces their diffuse logic, always opting for the whole over the details, while exploring the passions setting the collectors in motion and the accumulated picture sketched by the collection at large...With the blessing of the Petach Tivka Museum of Art and the Israel Antiquities Authority, Levy was given permission to take some one hundred works from the collection storeroom, which were suspended on the walls of the Mazor Mausoleum archaeological site—a Roman tomb near Petach Tikva.

—Hila Cohen-Schneiderman, Petach Tikva Museum Curator

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.

In 2021 her solo exhibition opened at the Saint Louis Art Museum, 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.