Aubrey Levinthal

Aubrey Levinthal (b. 1986) lives and works in Philadelphia. She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in 2008.

In her paintings, Aubrey Levinthal bears witness to everyday life in an almost meticulous manner. Inherent to her self-portraits, as well as images of friends, family, and ephemeral moments she picks up in her neighborhood, is a slow and diffuse sense of time. Her works use a palette of light greens, yellows, ochres, pastels, as well as darker colors, and their perspectives are often dislocated, evincing an air of melancholy and emotional imbalance. Her paintings oscillate between beauty and disillusionment, addressing loneliness as an accompanying phenomenon of our life in late capitalism, which is oriented towards performance and efficiency.

Aubrey Levinthal’s work has been shown in the USA at the ICA, Boston, in A Place for Me: Figurative Painting Now, and at the Flag Foundation, New York. It has had been presented in numerous (solo) exhibitions, such as Monya Rowe Gallery, NYC, USA; M+B, Los Angeles, USA; Grimm Gallery, London, UK; Marlborough Gallery, London, UK; Mathilde Le Coz, Paris, FR; Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK; Green Art Foundation, Dallas; USA; Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Aubrey Levinthal’s first publication CLOUD COVER, with texts by Dorothea Zwirner and Russel Tovey, was released on the occasion of her eponomous solo exhibition during Berlin Gallery Weekend held at Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin in 2024.


1986

geboren in Philadelphia, PA / born in Philadelphia, PA

lebt und arbeitet in Philadelphia / lives and works in Philadelphia

Ausbildung / Education

2011

M.F.A., Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2008

B.A., The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa Schreyer Honors College Scholarship Recipient, Visual Arts and Sociology

2007

Studio Arts Centers International, Spring Semester, Florence, Italy

Einzelausstellungen / Solo exhibitions

2025

Mirror Matter, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK

2024

Cloud Cover, Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin

Aubrey Levinthal, Process Art Space, The Mill, Westport, USA

2023

Some Day, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK

Tourist, M+B Gallery Los Angeles, USA

Spotlight: Aubrey Levinthal, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA

2022

Neighbors, Strangers, Bathers, Gazers, Monya Rowe Gallery, NYC

House Weary, Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin, Germany

2021

The Breakers, M + B Doheny, Los Angeles, CA

Nightstand Paintings, Taymour Grahne Projects, London (online)

2020

Vacancy, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY

2019

Recent Paintings, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY

2018

Volta NY, Representing Nancy Margolis Gallery, Pier 90, New York, NY

2017

Recent Paintings, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY

Refrigerator Paintings, The Painting Center, New York, NY

2016

Spaghetti for Breakfast, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Ausgewählte Gruppenausstellungen / Selected group exhibitions


2025

Modèle Vivant, Jack Siebert Projects, Beverly Hills, USA
New Life, Platform Project Space, New York, USA
Wings of a Butterfly, Ingleby, Edinburgh, UK

2024

2024

A Closer Look, Havercampf Leistenschneider, Berlin, Germany
New Work: Lacey Black and Aubrey Levinthal, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, USA
Licked by the Waves | New Bathers in Art, Museum MORE, Gorssel, The Netherlands
Folk Modern, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, USA

2023

Group show PACE Hong Kong, China

My World Play, Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin, Germany

Duality: The Real and the Perceived, Monya Rowe, New York

Close, curated by Russell Tovey, Grimm Gallery, London, UK

2022

A Place for Me: Figurative Painting Now, curated by Ruth Erickson, ICA Boston

Blind Field, curated by Matt Bollinger, 1969 Gallery, Tribeca, NYC

Shelf Life, curated by Jessica Draper, Marlborough Gallery, London

Where I Gaze, curated with Elsa Meunier, Mathilde Le Coz, Paris, FR

From Near and Far: Collage and Figuration in the Contemporary Age, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, curated by Katy Hessel

Women of Now: Dialogues of Identity, Memory and Place, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas.

2021

In Resonance with David Byrd, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

I am afraid to own a Body, curated by Jared Quinton and Izzy Lee, Poker Flats, Williamstown, MA

Odd Hours, Two Person Exhibition with Emily Pettigrew, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY

Sleep, Haverkampf Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Bedroom Show, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY

Contemporary Domesticity, Taymour Grahne Projects, Noho Studios, London

Me, Myself and I, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY

2020

Figure as Form, Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York, NY

Fête Galante, Heaven Gallery, curated by Gwendolyn Zabicki Chicago, IL

Sit Still, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York, NY

Outside Touch, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY

Still Life Painters, Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, LA

2019

Space Heater, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME

About Face, The Painting Center, New York, NY

Flowering: Inside/Outside, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY

2018

Real to Not Real, University of Southeastern Louisiana, Hammond, LA

Dynamic Intimacy, Kean University, Union, NJ

Looks, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Art at Kings Oaks 2018, Kings Oaks, Newtown, PA

2017

Cake Hole, Mrs. Gallery, Maspeth, NY

Blurring the Lines, Rowan University High Street Gallery, Glassboro, NJ

Frame Work, curated by Lauren Whearty, Ortega Y Gasset, Brooklyn, NY

Got Dressed in the Dark, curated by Emil Robinson, Divided Gallery, Dayton, OH

2016

April Flowers, Queens College Art Center, Curated by Xico Greenwald, Queens, NY

Drishti, 1285 Avenue of the Americas, Curated by Elisabeth Heskin and Patricia Spergel, New York, NY

Look Both Ways, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

2015

Figuration Inside/Out, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY

Star Gazer/Ancient Light, curated by Polly Shindler and Will Hutnick, Trestle Projects, Brooklyn, NY

Privacy Made Public, curated by Alex Cohen, New Hope Arts Center, New Hope, PA

Sow Your Rows, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2014

Image Makers, curated by Eleanor Ray and Avital Burg, Novella Gallery, New York, NY

A Fine Arrangement, curated by Jan Baltzell and Michael Gallagher, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, PA

Between Matter and Experience, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

The Intimate Gaze, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Women and Biography, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

2013

Aubrey Levinthal and Lauren Garvey, Finding What Was Not, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Sampler: Curated by Bill Scott, Cerulean Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Five to Watch, Avery Galleries, Bryn Mawr, PA

2012

New Moderns, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Annual National Juried Show, Juried by Yvonne Jacquette, Prince Street Gallery, Chelsea, NY

71st Annual Juried Exhibition, Juried by Alex Kanevsky, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

2011

Betsey Meyer Memorial: PAINT!, Selected by Bill Scott, Main Line Art Center, Bryn Mawr, PA

Intimations, Hopkins House Gallery of Contemporary Art, Collingswood, NJ

215/610: Regional Emerging Artists, Delaware County Community College, Media, PA

Thesis Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

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