Image is of the artwork "Memory Cloud" by Judith G. Levy, that pictures two women looking up at hundred of small image view finders hanging from the ceiling by clear fishing line.

Memory Cloud by Judith G. Levy

Judith G. Levy

Judith G. Levy is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the complexity, commonality and contradiction in personal stories, historical narratives, queer identity, and socio-cultural issues. She has presented solo exhibitions of her work at venues including The Lawrence Arts Center, The Spencer Museum of Art, the Gallery at the University of Missouri, The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana University and Big Car Gallery in Indianapolis, Soo Visual Arts Center in Minneapolis, Navta Schulz Gallery in Chicago, and the Paragraph Gallery in Kansas City. She has completed public art installations in Indianapolis, Chicago, Lawrence and Kansas City and has been included in group exhibitions at presenting institutions including The Touchstone Gallery, Wash. D.C., The Elmhurst Museum, Elmhurst, IL; Panoply Performance Lab, Brooklyn; PlugIn Institute for Contemporary Art, Winnipeg; Memorial Art Gallery Museum, Rochester; Bridge Art Fair, Miami; The Plains Art Museum, Fargo, and la Esquina in Kansas City. Her collaborative, public art installation, CHIPKO, was commissioned for The Spencer Museum of Art’s for Art in the Grove and was included in the regional exhibition project, Open Spaces.

Levy’s films have been showed nationwide in such venues as The New York City International Film Festival, The Rhode Island International Film Festival, The Palm Springs LGBT Film Festival, Free State Film Festival, The Boston LGBT Film Festival, The Vegas Indi Film Festival, The Columbia-Gorge Film Festival, The Kansas City LGBT Film Festival, and The Indianapolis International LGBT Film Festival, The Kansas City Art Institute’s H & R Block Artspace Performance Now Film Series, and Panoply Performance Lab, Brooklyn.

Levy received a BA in Drawing and Painting from Hunter College and a Masters in Social Work from Adelphi University. She has been awarded an Andy Warhol Foundation Rocket Grant, a Lilly Foundation Creative Renewal Grant, a Charlotte Street Foundation Fellowship, a Vermont Studio Residency Fellowship, a KC Arts Inspiration Grant, and the 2012 Kansas City Artopia award. She has attended artist residencies including Art Omi International Artist Residency, The Vermont Studio Center, The Millay Colony for the Arts, Santa Fe Art Institute, and Escape to Create. She will be attending the Elsewhere Museum and Artist Residency in Greensboro in 2021. Levy has been a judge for the Andy Warhol Rocket Grant awards, and serves as a mentor for the Charlotte Street artist residency program.



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