American artist
Dan Levenson (born 1972)[1] is a contemporary artist based in Los Angeles, California.[2] He works in painting, sculpture, installation, performance and video.[3][4][5][6]
Early life and education
Levenson was born in New York City.[1] He attended Oberlin College as an undergraduate and the Royal College of Art for graduate school.[2]
Work
Levenson's work involves a fictional Swiss art school based on the Bauhaus, Russian Constructivism, and the Abstraction-Création group.[7][clarification needed] His work ties together themes of education, professionalization, utopia, freedom, labor, subjectivity, language, individualism, authorship, authenticity, theatricality, modernism, nationalism, and globalization.[2][8][9][10] He is influenced by the legacy of institutional critique, especially the artists Andrea Fraser, Hans Haacke, Mel Bochner, and the art historian and critic Benjamin H. D. Buchloh.[2]
Exhibitions
Levenson has performed at the Hammer Museum,[4] and has exhibited at Vielmetter Los Angeles,[9] Praz-Delavallade,[7] and the American Jewish University.[3][11]
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