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Dana Levy, Israeli, video artist, born in 1973. Active in the United States.

Dana Levy was born in Tel Aviv. At the age of 16, she studied art at a boarding school in England. Her early work was in oils, but in the 1990s, she began to create video art. At the end of 2000, she moved to the United States, where she currently lives and works.

Levy's work incorporates metaphoric images that explore memory and identity. In "Disengagement" (2005), for example, she created a wooden "fortress" being constructed on a tree top. In "The Wake" (2011), she showed butterflies that come back to life at a museum's entology research department.

Education

1992-1993 Foundation Course Art & Design, Camberwell College of Arts, London, England
1994-1997 BA Graphic Design, Camberwell College of Arts, London, England
1997-1998 Post Graduate Diploma, Electronic Imaging, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, Scotland.

Teaching

1998-1999 Camera Obscura School of Art, Teacher of Design and Typography, Neuro-imaging Department, Tel Aviv-Yaffo
1998-1999 Photoshop, Photography Department, Musrara, Naggar School of Photography, Jerusalem
2004-2006 Video, Kalisher Art School, Tel Aviv-Yaffo
2008-2009 Video, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Ramat Gan

Awards And Prizes

1999 Cinemateque Open Video Festival, Tel Aviv, First Prize, Tel Aviv Cinematheque, Tel Aviv
2003 O.K. Center for Contemporary Art, Upper Austria, Scholarship for studies and residency
2004 Scholarship at the TQW (Contemporary Dance Quarter) Artists and Scientist Lab, Vienna, Austria
2006 Jury Award, Hamburg short film festival, Hamburg, Germany
2006 The Fund for the Encouragement of Video Art and Experimental Cinema, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2008 Prize for a Young Artist, Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport
2009 The Fund for the Encouragement of Video Art and Experimental Cinema, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2009 Award, The Council of Art and Culture at the National Lottery
2010 Artist's Grant Recipient
2010 Best studio award, Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2011 Grant, Rabinovich Foundation, Tel Aviv
2013 Beatrice Kolliner Prize for a Young Israeli Artist, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2020 Grant for a Digital Media Artist, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York