In her paintings, Aubrey Levinthal (b. 1986, lives and works in Philadelphia) 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 is featured in a number institutional collections, including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; the Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia; Ballinglen Museum of Art, County Mayo, Ireland; the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, West Palm Beach, FL; the Flag Art Foundation, New York; the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas; the Danjuma Collection, Esher, UK; the Kriket Foundation, Berlin; and the X Museum, Beijing; the PAFA Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, among others. Her work was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Flag Art Foundation in New York in 2023, and she has been featured in group exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Museum MORE, Gorssel, Netherlands; the Xiao Museum, Rizhao, China; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas; Ballinglen Museum of Art, County Mayo, Ireland; the Painting Center, New York; and the Queens College Arts Center, New York, among others.
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. In summer 2025, a comprehensive monograph, Mirror Matter, was published by Ingleby Gallery, devoted to her work over the past decade, with texts by Jennifer Higgie and Hettie Judah.
Aubrey Levinthal is represented by Marianne Boesky, New York; Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh and Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin.
1986
geboren in Philadelphia, PA / born in Philadelphia, PA
lebt und arbeitet in Philadelphia / lives and works in Philadelphia
M.F.A., Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
B.A., The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa Schreyer Honors College Scholarship Recipient, Visual Arts and Sociology
Studio Arts Centers International, Spring Semester, Florence, Italy
Mirror Matter, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Cloud Cover, Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin
Aubrey Levinthal, Process Art Space, The Mill, Westport, USA
Some Day, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Tourist, M+B Gallery Los Angeles, USA
Spotlight: Aubrey Levinthal, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA
Neighbors, Strangers, Bathers, Gazers, Monya Rowe Gallery, NYC
House Weary, Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin, Germany
The Breakers, M + B Doheny, Los Angeles, CA
Nightstand Paintings, Taymour Grahne Projects, London (online)
Vacancy, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY
Recent Paintings, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY
Volta NY, Representing Nancy Margolis Gallery, Pier 90, New York, NY
Recent Paintings, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY
Refrigerator Paintings, The Painting Center, New York, NY
Spaghetti for Breakfast, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2026
Paper Trail, Boesky Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Songs of Innocence & Experience, Part II, Ingleby, Edinburgh, UK
A Nation of Artists, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Figures of Delay, Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin, Germany
Handpicked: Painting Flowers from 1900 to Today, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK
In the Company of Still Life, Art Yard, Frenchtown, NJ, USA
2025
Made in Philly, Uffner & Liu, New York, NY, USA
Why have my hands strayed?, Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin, Germany
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme, curated by Sasa Bogojev, Pelaires Galeria, Mallorca, Spain
A Certain Form of Hell, Karma, Thomaston, ME, USA
Looking In, Looking Out, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Modèle Vivant, Jack Siebert Projects, Beverly Hills, CA, USA
New Life, Platform Project Space, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Wings of a Butterfly, Ingleby, Edinburgh, UK
2024
A Closer Look, Haverkampf 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
All Walks of Life, 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.
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
Space Heater, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME
About Face, The Painting Center, New York, NY
Flowering: Inside/Outside, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
