
About
BORN IN MOSCOW, U.S.S.R. 1960
LIVES AND WORKS IN NEW YORK, NEW YORK
Education
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1977-1979Moscow Architectural Institute, Moscow, U.S.S.R.
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1979-1983BFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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1985-1987MFA Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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2021Matvey Levenstein, Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
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2019Matvey Levenstein, Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
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2017New Works, Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome, Italy
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2012New Paintings, Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome, Italy
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2009Matvey Levenstein, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
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2007Matvey Levenstein, Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome, Italy
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2005Matvey Levenstein, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
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1997Matvey Levenstein, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
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1995Enough About You, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
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1991Matvey Levenstein, Gallery for the Visual Arts, Ohio University, Lancaster, OH
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2022The Armory Show, Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, New York, NY
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2022Singing in Unison: Artists Need to Create On the Same Scale That Society Has the Capacity to Destroy – Parts 2, 3, 5, and 6, Below Grand, Miguel Abreu Gallery, Scully Tomasko Foundation, and TOTAH, New York, NY
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2022Competere, Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus, GA
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2020Life During Wartime: Art in the Age of Coronavirus, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL [online]
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2020(Nothing But) Flowers, Karma, New York, NY
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201958th Venice Biennale, Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale that Society Has the Capacity to Destroy: Mare Nostrum, Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Penitenti, Venice, Italy
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2017The Curator’s Eggs, Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
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2016Outside and Inside Landscape, Able Baker Gallery, Portland, ME
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2015Intimacy in Discourse: Unreasonable Sized Paintings, Visual Arts Gallery of the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
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2013Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY
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2012Rainbow of Chaos, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
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2010Between Picture and Viewer: The Image In Contemporary Painting, Visual Arts Gallery of the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
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2009Party at Chris’s House, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
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2008Talk Dirty to Me, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
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2007Stable Scrawl, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
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2006The Beholder’s Eye, The Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
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2005Nostalgia, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
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2005Portraits on Paper, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
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2003Painting: The Ultimate Collection Vol. 1, Galleria Alberto Peola, Turin, Italy
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2003Portraits, Esso Gallery, New York, NY
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2002Artists to Artists, Ace Gallery, New York, NY
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2001First There Was A Drawing, The College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
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2000Drawings and Photographs: Foundation for Contemporary Performing Arts Benefit Exhibition, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY
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1999Not Quite Real, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
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1998People, Places, and Things, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
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1997Art on Paper: 33rd Annual Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
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1997Post Construction, Veknin and Schwartz Gallery, Atlanta, GA
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1997Color Detour, Apex Art, New York, NY
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1996Painting into Photography, Photography into Painting, Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
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1996Benefit Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas TX
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1996Benefit Exhibition, White Columns, New York, NY
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1994Mirage, Richard Anderson Gallery, New York, NY
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1993Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
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1993White Columns Benefit Exhibition, White Columns, New York, NY
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1992Emerging Sculptors, The Sculpture Center, New York, NY
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1992A Paper Trail, Berland/Hall Gallery, New York, NY
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1989Before or After: Form and Function, White Columns, New York, NY
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1989Form and Material, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
AWARDS AND HONORS
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2022The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, New York, NY
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2003Rome Prize, American Academy Rome, Rome, Italy
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2002Penny McCall Foundation Award, New York, NY
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1998Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Studio Grant, New York, NY
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1985-1987Katherine J. Horwich Grant, Jewish Foundation
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1983Anna Louise Raymond Traveling Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
SELECTED ARTIST TALKS & LECTURES
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Common Ground | Solidarity with Ukraine: Part II, The Brooklyn Rail, [online]. May 5, 2022.
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Matvey Levenstein in Conversation with Jarrett Earnest, New York, NY. September 2021.
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New Social Environment #49: Matvey Levenstein with Jason Rosenfeld, The Brooklyn Rail,
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Contemporary Perspectives on de Chirico, Center for Italian Modern Art, New York, NY. March
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Intimacy in Discourse: Unreasonable Sized Paintings, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY.
November 21, 2015.
COLLECTIONS
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Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
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Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
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The Progressive Art Collection, Mayfield, OH
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Phong Bui. “The Beauty of Friends Being Together: A Brief Meditation on the Paintings of John
Currin, Matvey Levenstein, Jesse Murry, and Lisa Yuskavage.” The Brooklyn Rail (November 2021). -
Christian Kleinbub. “Matvey Levenstein.” The Brooklyn Rail (September 2021).
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Jason Rosenfeld. “La nuova unione: Matvey Levenstein’s Recent Work.” The Kasmin Review
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Nancy Princenthal et al. Rethinking Painting. Ed. Joan Waltemath. Baltimore, MD: The LeRoy E.
Hoffberger School of Painting, 2021. -
(Nothing but) Flowers. New York: Karma Books, 2021.
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Jason Rosenfeld. “Art Seen,” The Brooklyn Rail (March 2019).
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Robert Becker. “Levenstein’s Long Exposures,” The New Criterion 3, no. 6 (February 21, 2019).
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Peter Schjeldahl. “Matvey Levenstein,” The New Yorker (February 18, 2019).
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Arianna Di Cori. “Matvey Levenstein Eterno Ritorno alla Pittura,” La Repubblica (November 25,
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Tell Me Something Good. Edited by Jarrett Earnest and Lucas Zwirner. New York: David Zwirner
Books, 2017. -
Phong Bui. Intimacy in Discourse: Unreasonable Sized Paintings. Jersey City, NJ: Mana
Contemporary, 2015. -
Thyrza Nicols Goodeve. “Matvey Levenstein: Church; Temple; Cathedral.” The Brooklyn Rail (October 20, 2013).
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Linda De Sanctis. “Matvey Levenstein la Lentezza della Pittura.” La Repubblica (September 14,
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Tom Huhn and Isabel L. Taube. Between Picture and Viewer: The Image in Contemporary Art.
New York: Visual Arts Press, 2010. -
“Matvey Levenstein.” The New Yorker (April 16, 2009).
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Phong Bui. “Matvey Levenstein with Phong Bui.” The Brooklyn Rail (April 2009).
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Pier Paolo Pancotto. “Levenstein, Fiori, Paesaggi e Nostalgie Romane.” L’Unita (October 2007).
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Rachel Somerstein. “Not-So-Still Lifes.” Art News (June 1, 2007).
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Linda Yablonsky. “Slides and Prejudice.” Art News 105, no. 4 (April 1, 2006).
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Bridget L. Goodbody. “Matvey Levenstein at Larissa Goldston Gallery.” Time Out New York
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Susanna Moore. Matvey Levenstein. New York: Larissa Goldston Gallery, 2005.
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Sabatina Cersosimo. “Galleria Alberto Peola.” Correire dell’Arte (November 1, 2003).
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Luigi Fassi. “Torino: Sette in Uno.” Flash Art 36, no. 242 (October 2003).
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Jacqueline Humphrey. “’Art on Paper’ Exhibition Has Lost Its Focus.” News & Record (November
26, 1997). -
Donald Kuspit. “Matvey Levenstein at Jack Tilton Gallery.” Artforum 35, no. 10 (Summer 1997).
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Amy Cappellazzo. Thirty-Third Annual Exhibition of Art on Paper. Greensboro, NC:
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1997. -
Bonnie Clearwater. Painting Into Photography Photography Into Painting. Miami: Museum of
Contemporary Art, North Miami, 1996. -
Faye Hirsch. “Matvey Levenstein at Jack Tilton Gallery.” Artforum 34, no. 1 (September 1995).
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Kim Levin. “Voices Choices.” The Village Voice (May 9, 1995).
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Robin Cembalest. “Levenstein’s Family Album of Beautiful and Dangerous Jews.” Forward 98,
no. 31009 (January 6, 1995). -
Gretchen Faust. “New York in Review.” Arts Magazine (April 1, 1992).
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Sybil Cantor. [Interview]. Dialogue Magazine (1991).
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“Art Today.” Art Video News (1990).
PUBLISHED WRITINGS
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Matvey Levenstein et al. “Looking at Late de Chirico: Matvey Levenstein, Stephen Ellis, and Lisa
Yuskavage.” The Brooklyn Rail (May 2017). -
Matvey Levenstein. “The ‘Naiveté of Morandi.” Art in America 11 (December 2008).
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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2010-2017Visiting Critic, School of the Arts, Columbia University, New York, NY
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2007-2017Painting Instructor, School of Visual Art, New York, NY
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2010Painting Instructor, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
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2006Critic, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
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2005Visiting Artist, The Cooper Union School for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY
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2004-2005Painting Instructor, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
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1995-2003Painting Instructor, New York University, New York, NY
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2001Advanced Painting Instructor, The Cooper Union School for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY
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2001Studio Perspectives Instructor, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
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2000Graduate Painting Instructor, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
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2000Painting and Drawing Instructor, Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art, Norfolk, CT
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2000Advanced Painting Instructor, The Cooper Union School for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY
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2000Painting Instructor, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
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1999Seminar Instructor, Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art, Norfolk, CT
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1996-1997Drawing Instructor, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
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1996Visiting Artist, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
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1990-1996Drawing Instructor, Department of Extended Studies, The Cooper Union School for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY
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1994Visiting Artist, New York University, New York, NY
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1990Painting Instructor, Department of Extended Studies, The Cooper Union School for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY