About and Contact
Dani Levine is an artist and educator living in Astoria, NY. Mixing pigments, binders, and other found materials, her alchemical practice questions assumptions about craft and abstraction. In recent paintings, she converses with queer-feminist aesthetics to explore themes of chance, agency, and resilience—ideas that recur throughout her work. As an educator and lecturer at schools such as Pratt Institute, Princeton, and Boston University, she aims to expand conversations about color as material, linking its history and contemporary uses to narratives of trade, science, and sociocultural ideas. She received her MFA from the Yale School of Art and BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Select honors include exhibitions at Sikkema Jenkins & Co, My Pet Ram, The Alfred Museum, SOLOWAY, and The Abrons Arts Center. In 2023, she was selected to be A.I.R. at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and is currently a Visual Arts Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center Provincetown, MA, in 2024.
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EDUCATION
2016 MFA, Yale University
2012 BFA, Rhode Island School of Design
2011 Norfolk Summer School of Art
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 Visual Artists Fellow’s Showcase, group exhibition, Provincetown Art Association Museum, Provincetown, MA.
2024 Lathe of Heaven, group exhibition featuring work by Alisa Bones and Nate Flagg. My Pet Ram, New York, NY.
2023 Evidence of Circumstance, group exhibition curated by Josephine Halvorson, Sikkema Jenkins & co, New York, NY.
2023 Currents, group exhibition, Basket Books & Art, Houston, TX.
2018 Conversations Between Women, group exhibition, Boston University, Boston, MA.
2018 Bang on, Divine Hammer, group exhibition curated by Jenna Pirella, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME.
2018 The Hard Problem, two person exhibition with Sara Coffin, The Abrons Art Center, New York, NY.
2018 Queering Space, group exhibition curated by Queering Space members, Alfred University, Alfred, NY.
2017 Collect, group exhibition curated by Soloway Gallery Directors, Soloway Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2017 Close Quarters, curated by Keiran Brennan Hinton, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY.
2016 Culture, group exhibition, Roots & Culture, Chicago, IL.
2016 Partners, Curated by Anoka Faruqee and Michael Queenland, Abrons Art Center, NewYork, NY
2015 Zoe Walsh, Erin Ikeler and Dani Levine, The Study, New Haven, CT
2015 Behind the Eight Ball, two person show with Kristin Walsh, Fjord Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2024-2025 Fine Arts Work Center Visual Arts Fellow, Provincetown, MA.
2024 Joseph Robert Foundation Grant, Philidelphia, PA.
2023 Artists In Residence (AIR), University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.
2015 Dumfries House Fellowship and Drawing Residency, London 2014 Vermont Studio Center Staff Artist Johnson, VT
2014 Vermont Studio Center Staff Artist Johnson, VT.
2013 Vermont Studio Center Grant Johnson VT
2011 Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship, Norfolk Summer School of Art Norfolk, CT
TEACHING/ LECTURES/ MATERIAL WORKSHOPS
2024-21 Adjunct Professor, Painting Processes, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
2024-21 Adjunct Professor, Light Color Design and Painting Processes, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
2024-22 Visiting Professor, Materials and Methods, Swarthmore College, PA.
2024-17 MFA Pigment/Grounds Workshop and Lecture, Boston University, Boston, MA.
2024-19 Pigment Workshop and Lecture, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
2024,2022 Guest Lecturer, Yale University, New Haven, NY.
2024 Guest Lecturer, Cooper Union, New York, NY.
2023 Artist Talk, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.
2022,18 Guest Lecturer and Mediums Workshop, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA.
2022 Guest Lecturer, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY.
2020 MFA Painting Critic, Boston University, Boston, MA.
2020-19 Adjunct Professor, Intro to Painting, Boston University, Boston, MA.
2020-16 Co-founder: Fabrication and Material Specialist, “CoffinLevine”, Astoria, NY.
2018-17 Materials Technician, Kremer Pigments, New York, NY.
2018-17 “Crash Course” Pigment Lecture, Kremer Pigments, New York, NY.
2018-17 “Crash Course” Grounds Lecture, Kremer Pigments, New York, NY.
PUBLICATIONS
2025 Materials, Microbiomes, and Metaphors, exhibition review by Abraham Storer, Provincetown Independent, MA.
2018 Von Coffin and Dani Levine Present “The Hard Problem”, interview with Alec Coiro, Ravelin Magazine, Sweden Unltd.
2017 Crone Space, Collection of works compiled by Brook Hsu, Lydia Glenn-Murray and Maren Marlson. With Kira Scerbin, George Carr, Jeffrey Krikscium, Halsey Rodman and Dani Levine.
2017 Connected, Read This When, Issue 2
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