DANI LEVINE

Dani Levine is an artist and educator living in Astoria, NY. Mixing pigments, binders, and other found materials, her practice explores themes of chance, agency, and resilience—ideas that recur throughout her work. In her recent paintings, she draws on the queer-feminist aesthetics of 1960s and ’70s print culture, layering lesbian iconography with invented symbols to traverse time through image, material, and genre alike. She has taught and developed painting material workshops for schools such as Princeton, Boston University, Pratt Institute, and Swarthmore College. Through teaching, she engages artists’ materials as a means to build specificity, context, and agency within artists’ work. Her approach aims to open broader conversations about color as material—connecting its historical and contemporary uses, as well as its alchemic properties, to visual traditions, cultural references, and personal narratives.

Levine received her MFA from the Yale School of Art and BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Select honors include exhibitions at Provincetown Arts Association Museum, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, My Pet Ram, The Alfred Museum, SOLOWAY, and The Abrons Arts Center. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and a Fine Arts Work Center Fellow in Provincetown, MA. She is currently a Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder, New York, NY, and teaching at Princeton University.

A recent profile from the Provincetown Independent can be read HERE.

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EDUCATION
2016 MFA, Yale University
2012 BFA, Rhode Island School of Design
2011 Norfolk Summer School of Art

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2025 Motion, Motif, Fellows Showcase, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA.
2024 The FAWC Fellows, 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 Von 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

2025 Lower East Side Keyholder Residency, New York, NY.
2025-24 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 A Magician in the Studio, profile by Abraham Storer, Provincetown Indipendent, MA.
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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