SOLO EXHIBITIONS, PRODUCTIONS, AND PERFORMANCES (selected)
2023 Dissolution, Museum of the Moving Image, New York
2018 Some of the People, All of the Time, Brooklyn Museum
2017 Private View, 83 Pitt Street
2017 A People's History of Performance Art, Williams College Museum of Art
2017 Light Matter VII, Fondation Cartier, Paris
2016 The Best New Work, Princeton University Art Museum
2015 Bystanders, Gallery TPW, Toronto
2014 WOW (work-in-progress), BRIC House, Brooklyn
2013 Talk Show IX, NADA Miami Beach
2013 The Sight of Blood Does Not Make Me Nervous or Afraid, CCS Bard/Luma Foundation
2013 Durance, Boston Museum of Fine Arts
2013 Square of Paranoia, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
2012 Habit, Essex Street Market, New York City
2012 Light Matter III, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles
2012 Light Matter I & II, Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin
2012 Anger at the Movies, PS122, New York
2011 Habit, Luminato /Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto
2011 An Untitled Opera About Milli Vanilli, Watermill Center, New York
2011 Habit, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
2010 Elegant Solutions (performance), Museum of Modern Art, New York
2010 Habit, Watermill Center, New York
2010 Hopeful, Frîche du Belle du Mai, Marseille
2010 Hopeful, François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles
2009 Hopeful, Cabinet Magazine Exhibition Space, New York
2009 Hopeful, Galerie Feinkost, Berlin
2009 Venice Saved, PS122, New York
2008 The Gallery will be Relocating over the Summer, CWB, Berlin
2007 The Barber Trial, Documenta XII, Kassel
2007 2 Forms of Endurance, Galerie Magnus Muller, Berlin
2007 Bauerntheater, Biorama-Projekt, Joachimsthal
2007 Actors at Work, Ice Factory NYC
2004 4 Seminars, European College of Liberal Arts, Berlin
2004 ‘Night, Motherfucker, Gavin Brown@Passerby, New York
2003 Babylon is Everywhere, Drama League, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2022 Fata Morgana, Jeu De Paume, Paris
2019 The Commons Artist, MCA Chicago
2019 Idiorhythmias, MACBA Barcelona
2017 Chalk Circles, REDCAT, Los Angeles
2016 That Time, CYCLE Festival, Iceland
2015 Hotel Theory, REDCAT, Los Angeles
2015 Drifting in Daylight, Creative Time, New York
2014 The Reluctant Narrator, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon
2013 Jew York, Untitled/Zach Feuer Gallery, New York
2012 Rogue States, Utah Museum Of Contemporary Art
2012 Test Run, Kunsthaus Dresden
2012 No Person May Carry a Fish into a Bar, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
2012 Meeting Point, Mount Tremper Arts, New York
2012 Our Work is Never Over, Matadero Madrid
2012 Boredom, Essays and Observations, Berlin
2011 Prelude ’12, CUNY Gallery, NYC
2011 You Are Free, Exnergasse, Wien
2011 The New Versimilitude, M+B Gallery, Los Angeles
2011 Rehearsing Collectivity, Tanzfabrik, Berlin
2011 A Painting Show, Autocenter, Berlin
2011 pertaining to a profession proverbially energetic and nervous, ICSP, New York
2011 Stay Hungry, POG Berlin
2010 The Clifford Irving Show, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp
2010 Feinkost Triennale, Program, Berlin
2010 During Office Hours, VGF Geschlossenes Fonds, Berlin
2010 Vivere Country, Grimmuseum, Berlin
2010 Love Letters to a Surrogate, Torrance Museum, Los Angeles
2010 Videodrome, Autocenter, Berlin
2010 In 15 Minutes Everybody Will Be Famous, Tape Gallery, Berlin
2010 One Million Random Numbers, Gridspace Gallery, New York
2010 You Are Free, Tape Gallery, Berlin
2010 Freischuss, Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Berlin
2009 Assume the Position, Town House Gallery, Cairo
2009 Communism Never Happened, Galerie Feinkost, Berlin
2009 Sleeper, Brown Gallery, London
2009 Exhibition June 13, Exhibition (NY)
2008 No Food for Visitors, Appartment22, Rabat, Morocco
2008 All I Wanted was a Pepsi, West Germany (Berlin), Malkasten (Dusseldorf), Elektrohaus (Hamburg)
2008 The Practice of Everyday Life, Galerie Feinkost, Berlin
CURATION
2017 Progeny!, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York
2017 Active Ingredients: Prompts, Props, Performance, Williams College Museum of Art
ARTICLES AND REVIEWS (selected)
Alex Kitnick, “No Resolution: Video Art in and Around the Contemporary”, Artforum, May, 2023
Aaron Peck, “Fata Morgana looks At How Images Mediate our Experience of the World”, Frieze, April 2022
Ryan Anthony Hatch, “Galleries: Resituating the Postdramatic Real”, in Postdramatic Theater and Form. Methuen: 2019
Jason Farago, “Best Art of 2018: Global Highlights,” The New York Times, December 12, 2018
Alex Bienstock, "Emotions for Hire: David Levine at the Brooklyn Museum", Art in America, June 11, 2018
Saul Anton, "David Levine Brings the Drama of a Political Antihero to the Brooklyn Museum", Cultured, Summer 2018
Paul David Young, "At the Brooklyn Museum, Actors Play at Faking Democracy", Hyperallergic, June 8, 2018
Ferdman, Bertie, Off Sites: Contemporary Performance Beyond Site-Specific. Southern Illinois UP, 2018
James N. Kienitz-Wilkins, David Levine, BOMB 139, Spring 2017
Judith Vranken, "Artforum Critic's Pick: That Time", November, 2016
Elvia Wilk, That Time, Frieze.com, November 9, 2016
Anna Altman, "A Real-Life GIF in Central Park", The New Yorker (online), May 15, 2015
Stephen Squibb, “Faux Pas: David Levine’s WOW,” Artforum, May 2014
Scott Indrisek, “The Surprise Genius of a Milli Vanilli Art-Opera,” Black Book, February 3, 2014
Hrag Vartanian, “Remember When Milli Vanilli Were Artists?,” Hyperallergic, January 31, 2014
Mike Thomsen, “Together We are None," The New Inquiry, January 30, 2014
Sara Kozinn, “Making Theater Art”, TDR/The Drama Review, Summer 2014
Andrew Russeth, “Do Opera Singers Lip-Sync?,” Gallerist NY/New York Observer, January 28, 2014
Dan Fox, “Act Natural,” Frieze, May/June 2013
Allison Vanouse, Notes on Odd Spaces, HowlRound.com, June 25, 2013
Ryan Anthony Hatch, “Performance Geometries, a Primer,” PAJ 35.2, March 2013
Beckett, Andy, “A User’s Guide to Artspeak,” The Guardian, January 27, 2013
Mark Beasley, “Best of 2012: Habit,” Frieze online, December 26, 2012
Dan Fox, “Best of 2012: “Habit," Frieze online, December 19, 2012
Dan Fox, "Best of 2012: "International Art English,” Frieze online, December 19, 2012
Daniel Schreiber, “Wie sind wir zu solchen Versagern geworden?” Theater Heute, October 2012
Dan Fox, “In Habit,” Frieze online, October 10, 2012
Michael H. Miller, “Daily Housework: In ‘Habit,’ David Levine Makes Acting a Chore”, Gallerist NY/New York Observer, October 2, 2012
Paul David Young, “David Levine’s Habit at the Essex Street Market,” Art in America online, September 29, 2012
Anna Altman, “Choose Your Own Adventure,” The New Yorker online, September 28, 2012
David Cote, “Habit,” Time Out New York, September 25, 2012
Ben Brantley, “You Have a Role in this Play: Peeping Tom,” New York Times, September 24, 2012
Gideon Lewis-Kraus, “The Next Big Former Thing,” Modern Painters, March 2012
Ana Pinto, “American Idol,”Mousse #30, Fall 2011
Gideon Lewis-Kraus, "Over and Over," Threepenny Review, Winter 2011
Amy Holzapfel, “The Habit of Realism,” Theater 42:1, Winter 2011
Whitney Kimball, “How the Marlborough Gallery Besmirched Itself,” Artfagcity, August 17, 2011
Michael H. Miller, “The Straight Story of the Matter of Rothko,” New York Observer, August 12, 2011
Murray Whyte, “David Levine’s Habit,” Toronto Star, June 15, 2011
Vivian Rehberg, “Best of 2011: Matter of Rothko,” Frieze online, December 21, 2011
Paul David Young, “Evolutions of the Performance Aesthetic,” PAJ 98, Spring 2011
Caitlin Berrigan, “Specters: David Levine,” EMPAC Uncertain Spectators Blog, January 2011
Nikki Columbus, “Double Play,” Artforum.com, June 1, 2010
Michael Rush, “Interview with David Levine,” Art International Radio, May 7, 2010
Tom Sellar, “The City’s Best (and Not So Best) Progressive Theater,” The Village Voice, Jan. 5–12, 2010
Ana Texeira Pinto, “Susan Boyle, C’est Moi,” Von Hundert 010, 2009
Naoko Kaltschmidt, “Hopeful,” Spike, Autumn 2009
Dominikus Mueller, “Hopeful,” Artforum, October 2009
Ana Finel Honigman “Critic’s Pick: Hopeful,” Artforum.com, August 2009
Dominikus Mueller, “Hoffnung auf Erfolg,” TAZ, July 8, 2009
Kari Rittenbach, “Keeping the Hope Alive,” Art in America.com, July 8, 2009
Ana Finel Honigman, “Inside the Actors’ Portrait Studio,” Interview.com, May 18, 2009
Helen Shaw, “Venice Saved: A Seminar," Time Out New York, April 2–8, 2009
Jason Zinoman, “The Audience has its Say during the Performance,” The New York Times, April 1, 2009
Tom Murrin, “Stage Notes: Venice Saved: A Seminar,” Paper Magazine online, March 19, 2009
David Cote, “Politics as Unusual at PS122,” Time Out New York Online, March 19th, 2009
Alexis Soloski, “Mr. High Concept,” The Village Voice, March 17–24, 2009
Gary Winter, “Venice Saved: A Seminar,” The Brooklyn Rail, March 2009
“Christian Hawkey in conversation with David Levine,” The Believer, Winter 2009
Astrid Mania, “Berlin Dispatches,” Art Review #25, September 2008.
Marvin Carlson, “David Levine’s Bauerntheater: The Return of the Matrix,” TDR, Fall 2008
Alix Rule, “David Levine in Conversation with Alix Rule,” Saatchi Gallery Online, July 2008
Walter Robbins, “Art Opening as Theater in Berlin,” Artnet, June 24, 2008
Geoffrey Scott & Aaron Cedolia, “David Levine & Bauerntheater,” BOMB #100
Thomas Irmer, “Auf fruchtbarem Boden” Shakespeare (Norway), Maska (Latvia), Didaskalia (Poland) July 2007, October 2007, May 2008
Wolfgang Behrens, “Wer Erntet die Dickste Kartoffeln?,” Theater der Zeit, June 2007
Anja Quickert, “Das Kartoffel-Konzept,” TheaterHeute, June 2007
Daniel Volzke, “Ertragreich,” Tagesspiegel, May 21, 2007
Sally McGrane, “An Actor Out Standing in his Field,” The New York Times, May 20, 2007
Max Glauner, “Die Kartoffeln sind Real,” Freitag, May 11, 2007
Kerstin Decker, “Es riecht nach Regen,” Der Tagesspiegel, May 8, 2007
Max Glauner, “Ackern fur die Kunst,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, May 6, 2007
PUBLICATIONS (selected)
“Some of the People, All of the Time” (artist’s edition) PPP Editions, 2019
“Some of the People, All of the Time” n+1 32, fall, 2018
"The Sight of Blood Does not Make Me Sick or Afraid" in Eccles, Keenan, Malik, Zolghadr, eds, The Flood of Rights Bard CCS/LUMA Foundation & Sternberg Press, 2017.
"Action" and "Installation" in Shannon Jackson, ed. In Terms of Performance. The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia and Arts Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, 2016
"You Had to Be There (sorta)" in Parkett, vol. 95, 2014
“A Genuine Subversion” in Mousse #41, December 2013
“Interview with Marina Abramovic”, Mono-Kultur, #35, November 2013
“Interview with Alexandre Singh,” BOMB online, November 12, 2013
“Curating People,” ed. Shannon Jackson (forthcoming), 2014
“Rothko Negatives,” Convolutions #2, 2013
“Hopeful,” reprinted in Curiosity and Method: Ten Years of Cabinet Magazine. Cabinet Books, 2012
“International Art English,” Triple Canopy #16, 2012
Draw it With Your Eyes Closed: The Art of the Art Assignment, Paper Monument Press, 2012
“Matter of Rothko” Triple Canopy #13, 2011
“Parking Plots,” Cabinet #41, 2011
“Unsolicited Submission,” Cultural Politics 6:1, 2010
I Like Your Work: Art & Etiquette, Paper Monument, 2009
“Hopeful,” Cabinet #31, 2008
“Sin City: The Art of Howard Chaykin,” Nextbook, 2008
“Bauerntheater Production Diary,” Theater 28:2, 2008
Bauerntheater [catalogue], Biorama Projekt/Kulturstiftung des Bundes, 2007
“Interview with Michael Thalheimer,” BOMB.com, 2007
“Actors at Work,” Cabinet #25, 2007
“Bad Art & Objecthood,” Art/US #13, May–June 2006
“Re-Public,” Theater, 2005
“Babylon is Everywhere,” Theater, 2004
DISTINCTIONS, RESIDENCIES, LECTURES, AWARDS:
Guggenheim Fellowship, 2018
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award, 2016
Artists on Artists Lecture on Bruce Nauman, Dia Art Foundation, 2015
Fellowship, Macdowell Colony, 2014
NYSCA Individual Artists Commission (for WOW), 2014
OBIE Award (for Habit), 2013
Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 2012-2013, 2013–2014
Spencer Lecture in Drama at Harvard University, March 2012
Brecht-Tage Lecture, “Brecht and the Gallery,” Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus, Berlin, February 2012
Watermill Center Artist-in-Residence, 2010 and 2011
Columbia University Collaboration Lab Faculty, 2011
Prelude Festival of New Performance, 2007, 2009, 2011
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, 2007
Florence Gould Foundation Commissioning Grant for Venice Saved, 2008
Etants Donnés (French-American Fund for Performance) Commissioning Grant for Venice Saved, 2008
German Federal Cultural Foundation Commissioning Grant for Bauerntheater, 2007
TEACHING:
Professor of the Practice of Performance, Theater, and Media, Harvard University, 2016-present
Professor of Art, Director of Studio and Performing Arts, Bard College Berlin, Germany, 2012–2016
Director, Studio Component, European College of Liberal Arts, Berlin, Germany, 2005–2011
Faculty, Columbia University Collaboration Lab, Summer 2012
Guest Professor, Freie Universität, Berlin, 2008
EDUCATION:
1992–1996 Harvard University, MA, Department of English Language & Literature,
Mellon Fellowship for Graduate Study
1988–1992 Cornell University, BA, 19th- & 20th-Century European Intellectual History