Faculty

Profile

Michelle Levy is an interdisciplinary artist, storyteller, and arts organizer. She uses performance, video, text, and collective engagement to investigate the mediated spaces where identity is constructed. Through modes of storytelling, she questions how we can get closer to wisdom or “truth” when we remain alienated and disconnected from our own histories. Her works are explorations-in-process, made messy by her personal connection to them and by a state of continual becoming. She has presented her work in venues across New York City including Abrons Art Center, Dixon Place, Flux Factory, La MaMa Galleria, Magnet Theater, Spectacle Theater, and Theaterlab, as well as galleries, theaters, and museums in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Krakow, Szczecin, Warsaw, and Prague. Levy has 18+ years of producing exhibitions and artist programs at New York City arts institutions and was the Founding Director of the EFA Project Space, a cross-disciplinary exhibition and event venue at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. There, she also founded the Shift Residency for Arts Workers. Levy is a co-founder of Temp. Files, a cooperative video art publishing platform and remote residency, and is an independent consultant, mentor, writer, and editor for artists. 

Degrees Held

M.F.A., Digital and Interdisciplinary Art Practice, City College of New York (CUNY)

MA, Studio Art, Wesleyan University

Research Interests

Performance, reenactment, memory, archives