BIOGRAPHY

Born: Moscow, U.S.S.R, 1960
Resides: New York, New York
Education: Yale School of Art (M.F.A., 1987); School of the Art Institute of Chicago (B.F.A., 1983); Moscow Architectural Institute (1979).

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021 “Matvey Levenstein”, Kasmin Gallery, New York.

2019 “Matvey Levenstein”, Kasmin Gallery, New York.

2017 “New Works”, Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome.

2012 “New Paintings”, Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome.

2009 “Matvey Levenstein”, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 “Singing in Unison: Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale That Society Has the Capacity to Destroy,” Below Grand (Part 3) and TOTAH (Part 5), New York.

“Competere”, Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus, Georgia.

2020 “Life During Wartime: Art in the Age of Coronavirus”

(online), Contemporary Art Museum, University of Southern Florida, Tampa.

“(Nothing But) Flowers, Karma, New York.

2019 “Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale that Society Has the Capacity to Destroy: Mare Nostrum,” 58th Venice Biennial, Italy.

2017 “The Curator’s Eggs”, Kasmin Gallery, New York.

2016 “Outside and Inside Landscape”, Able Baker Gallery, Portland, Maine.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2021 Bui, Phong. “The Beauty of Friends Being Together: A Brief Meditation on the Paintings of John Currin, Matvey Levenstein, Jesse Murry, and Lisa Yuskavage.”, The Brooklyn Rail (November).

Kleinbub, Christian , “Matvey Levenstein.”, The Brooklyn Rail (September).

(Nothing but) Flowers, Karma Books.

2019 Rosenfeld, Jason. “Art Seen”, The Brooklyn Rail (March).

Becker, Robert. “Levenstein’s Long Exposures”, The New Criterion (February).

Schjeldahl, Peter. “Matvey Levenstein,” New Yorker (February).

2017 Di Cori, Arianna. “Matvey Levenstein Eterno Ritorno alla Pittura”, La Repubblica (November).

Earnest, Jarrett, and Lucas Zwirner, eds. Tell Me Something Good: Artist Interviews from The Brooklyn Rail. David Zwirner Books.