Tom Levy, Born in Reading, England, 1987- BA Goldsmiths university of London in Fine Art and History of Art, 2011. MFA New York Academy of Art, 2017. Currently lives and works in New York.

I have used different strategies to explore forms of painting which offer meaning to me. I often feel as if I am an author writing several different books at the same time, which weaving in and out of one another in various ways offer different facets of me. Each body of work looks at the same thing from a different angel creating visual metaphors which explore perceptual experience. Playing with optics around photorealism and abstraction, I want my work to provide a calm space for the viewer to slow down and immerse themselves into the act of looking. Is it possible to provide a visual experience that then can be taken outside of the painting and into the outside world.

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Education:

• 2015-2017, New York  Academy of Art, MFA.

• 2009-2011, Goldsmiths College, University of London (BA Hons) History of Art and Fine Art.

• 2007-2009, Cyprus College of Art, Foundation Degree and BA in Art and Design.

Exhibition and Curatorial History:

Projects:

Solo:

  • 2024, Odyssey, SixtySix London. London.

  • 2024, Fade Out, The UN building New York city.

  • 2023, Wandering, The Space 312 Broadway, New York.

  • 2018, 7 years, Art Lines, New Jersey.

  • 2015, Visual Meditations, Camille, Hoxton, London.

Group:

  • 2024, Method Men, 3 person show, The Blanc, New York city.

  • 2024, Post Human 6, London.

  • 2024, Articulation, London.

  • 2024, An Open Studio Project, The Space 312 Broadway, New York.

  • 2023, Spring Break, The Tower of Babel, New York.

  • 2023, Post Human Rocketship Soup, The Space 312 Broadway, New York.

  • 2023, Post Human, Dolores54, Mexico City.

  • 2022, Move on, Be Happy, Grow Within, New York.

  • 2022, Spirit, secondavenuearts, New York.

  • 2021, Homefront fundraiser for homeless women’s charity, Princeton.

  • 2021, Animal instincts, StevenZevitas, Boston.

  • 2021, The Washhouse, Equity gallery, New York.

  • 2021, 6 Artists, KD Advisory, New York.

  • 2019, Satellite Art fair with Paradice palace. New York.

  • 2019, Right Behind the New Museum, Please step on the Grass. New York.

  • 2018, TAV, Measure, New York.

  • 2018, All My Friends, “Right Behind the New Museum”, New York.

  • 2018, Santo Santos, Mexico City.

  • 2018, 3 person show, Kouros, MEN gallery, New York.

  • 2018, Back Room and the Bathers, Four Eleven Gallery, Province Town, MA, USA.

  • 2018, Open Studio, 195 Chrystie st, New York.

  • 2018, Introductions, Trestle gallery, New York.

  • 2017, I <3 Black, 1969 gallery, New York.

  • 2017, Single Fare 4, Highline Stages, New York.

  • 2017, guest curator, lecturer undergraduate summer residency students, NYAA, New York.

  • 2017, flowers gallery summer ex, New York.

  • 2017, Perfection to a T, New York.

  • 2017, Ashurst emerging artist award, London.

  • 2017, Tribeca Ball, New York Academy of Art, New York.

  • 2017, Eye2Eye, Laura Skoler collection, New York.

  • 2015, Bay Ridge art space opening exhibition, New York.

  • 2015, Gruppenausstellung (group show), Dzialdov, Berlin.

  • 2014, Save a Childs Heart, Jewish Heritage Museum, London.

  • 2014, The premier league 2014, Lelios art point, Limassol Cyprus.

  • 2014, Cyprus college of art, exhibitor and curator, Paphos Cyprus.

  • 2013, Brewery Arts club, Time Stands Still, exhibitor, Kendal U.K.

  • 2013, cARTographies, exhibitor and curator, London.

  • 2013, Out of the Blue/ Stroke association, London.

  • 2012, Annulus Launch, exhibitor and curator, London.

  • 2012, Candid Admin, London.

  • 2011, Ephem Art, London.

  • 2011, Goldsmiths Degree show, London.

  • 2011, Marmite Prize for Painting assistant curator, London.

  • 2010, 400 Women, touring show.

  • 2010, Hot Tap exhibitor & curator, London.

  • 2009, Fry Up, Old Police Station (Deptford X), exhibitor & curator, London.

  • 2008, “Freskes Patates”, Cyprus College of Art, exhibitor & curator, Cyprus.

  • 2007, Study Art, Morfi gallery, exhibitor & assistant curator, Limassol, Cyprus.

Awards:

  • Two month residency at Dolores54 Mexico. city, 2023.

  • Financial award from the New York Foundation for the Arts, 2020.

  • Scott and Pat Moger teaching fellows, 2019.

  • Financial award from the New York community Trust, 2018.

  • (T)Here magazine. 24 hour art marathon in Miami 2017.

  • Finalist in the Ashurst emerging artist award 2017.

  • Honorary Fellow of the Cyprus College of Art. 2015.

  • Four month artist in residency scholarship at the Cyprus College of Art. 2015.

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