Michael Gac Levin

Michael Gac Levin (b. 1984, Los Angeles, US) is a New York-based artist whose paintings evoke the mystery and intensity of childhood. At the core of his work is a playful, diaristic drawing practice guided by repetition and humour. Riding a wobbly line down into memory, he finds images that speak to our predicament in the present and the uncertainty of the future. His reflective, dreamlike compositions offer views of a world in which everything is animate and purposeful. Color, form, and line work in tension with one another, making pictures in which pattern threatens to submerge the subject.

His latest solo exhibition took place at My Pet Ram, New York, in 2024, preceded by presentations at Hexum Gallery, Montpelier, VT; and at Parts & Labor, San Antonio, TX. He has shown extensively in group exhibitions, including at The Hole and Deanna Evans Projects, New York; at Marvin Gardens, Brooklyn; as well as online with Taymour Grahne Projects and Platform. His work has been featured in Artmaze Magazine and Maake Magazine, and he has completed special projects online for the Jewish Museum and SCREEN_.

 

He has been an artist-in-residence at The North Dakota Museum of Art, The Constance Saltonstall Foundation, Parts & Labor, and the Vermont Studio Center. He holds an MFA from Pratt Institute (2015), where he joined the faculty in 2017, and a BA from the University of Chicago (2006).