Italian photographer, b. 1990
In 2013 Francesco Levy graduates from the Venice Academy of Fine Arts with a thesis on the aesthetics of new media and straight after enrolls on a three-year photography course at Fondazione Studio Marangoni in Florence that he will finish with honours and the scholarship as the best student.
Since 2017 he actively works in the field of contemporary photography participating at various festivals with collective and personal exhibitions including Fotografia Europea and SIFEST. Francesco Levy is a Celeste Prize finalist and winner of the Combat Prize Art Tracker award.
In 2018 he is invited by the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris for an art residency project during which he developed the project "Random Notes for a Necessary Urban Planning", presented in the IIC as a personal exhibition curated by Laura Serani and subsequently at the San Gimignano's Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery in a solo exhibition curated by Elio Grazioli. In 2019 he is included in the catalog "222. Giovani artisti su cui investire nel 2019 " edited by Exibart.
Currently lives and works in Italy.
Exhibitions.
Personal
> 2018, “About Memory and on being Elsewhere” | Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea Raffaele De Grada, San Gimignano
> 2018, SIFEST – On Being Now | Savignano sul Rubicone
> 2018, “Zeropuntocinque” | Galleria Cartavetra, Firenze
> 2018, "La Ville Fantôme" | IIC - Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Paris
Group
> 2019 “12 Artists of Tomorrow” | Galleria Mucciaccia Contemporary, Rome
> 2019 “Jeune Photographie Italienne” | IIC - Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Paris
> 2019 LUCCA ART FAIR | Art Tracker – Lucca
> 2018 PREMIO COMBAT PRIZE, Vincitore premio Art Tracker, Livorno
> 2018 JCE | Jeune Creation Europeenne, Vrå, Denmark
> 2018 OMNIBUS CIRCUS | Hotel de Sauroy, Paris
> 2017 OMNIBUS CIRCUS | Officine Fotografiche Milano, Milan
> 2017 PASÓ, PERO NUNCA LO VI | Galerìa de arte Jardines de Mexico, Mexico City
> 2017 MALA YERBA | Fototeca de Cuba, L'Avana
> 2017 Carpi Foto Fest | Carpi
> 2017 JCE | Jeune Creation Europeenne, Mountrouge, Paris
> 2017 Questioni di Famiglie | CIFA - Centro Italiano Fotografia d'Atuore, Bibbiena
> 2017 Celeste Prize | Visible White Project – In Conflict, Fondazione Studio Marangoni, Firenze
> 2017 LOOP | Giovane Fotografia Italiana, Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia
> 2017 International Photo Project 2017, La Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan
Publications
> 2020 Azimuths of Celestial Bodies | Crowdbooks
> 2019 “12 Artists of Tomorrow” | catalogue
> 2019 EXIBART – 222 Artisti emergenti su cui investire | edizione 2019, catalogue
> 2018 COMBAT PRIZE | catalogue
> 2018 SIFEST - On Being Now | catalogue
> 2017 JCE - Jeune Creation Europeenne | catalogue
> 2017 FOTOGRAFIA EUROPEA - Mappe del tempo, Memoria, archivi, futuro | catalogue
> 2017 INTERNATIONAL PHOTO PROJECT | catalogue
CONTACTS
levyfrancesco@gmail.com
LINKS
www.instagram.com/francescolevy/
In 2013 Francesco Levy graduates from the Venice Academy of Fine Arts with a thesis on the aesthetics of new media and straight after enrolls on a three-year photography course at Fondazione Studio Marangoni in Florence that he will finish with honours and the scholarship as the best student.
Since 2017 he actively works in the field of contemporary photography participating at various festivals with collective and personal exhibitions including Fotografia Europea and SIFEST. Francesco Levy is a Celeste Prize finalist and winner of the Combat Prize Art Tracker award.
In 2018 he is invited by the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris for an art residency project during which he developed the project "Random Notes for a Necessary Urban Planning", presented in the IIC as a personal exhibition curated by Laura Serani and subsequently at the San Gimignano's Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery in a solo exhibition curated by Elio Grazioli. In 2019 he is included in the catalog "222. Giovani artisti su cui investire nel 2019 " edited by Exibart.
Currently lives and works in Italy.
Exhibitions.
Personal
> 2018, “About Memory and on being Elsewhere” | Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea Raffaele De Grada, San Gimignano
> 2018, SIFEST – On Being Now | Savignano sul Rubicone
> 2018, “Zeropuntocinque” | Galleria Cartavetra, Firenze
> 2018, "La Ville Fantôme" | IIC - Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Paris
Group
> 2019 “12 Artists of Tomorrow” | Galleria Mucciaccia Contemporary, Rome
> 2019 “Jeune Photographie Italienne” | IIC - Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Paris
> 2019 LUCCA ART FAIR | Art Tracker – Lucca
> 2018 PREMIO COMBAT PRIZE, Vincitore premio Art Tracker, Livorno
> 2018 JCE | Jeune Creation Europeenne, Vrå, Denmark
> 2018 OMNIBUS CIRCUS | Hotel de Sauroy, Paris
> 2017 OMNIBUS CIRCUS | Officine Fotografiche Milano, Milan
> 2017 PASÓ, PERO NUNCA LO VI | Galerìa de arte Jardines de Mexico, Mexico City
> 2017 MALA YERBA | Fototeca de Cuba, L'Avana
> 2017 Carpi Foto Fest | Carpi
> 2017 JCE | Jeune Creation Europeenne, Mountrouge, Paris
> 2017 Questioni di Famiglie | CIFA - Centro Italiano Fotografia d'Atuore, Bibbiena
> 2017 Celeste Prize | Visible White Project – In Conflict, Fondazione Studio Marangoni, Firenze
> 2017 LOOP | Giovane Fotografia Italiana, Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia
> 2017 International Photo Project 2017, La Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan
Publications
> 2020 Azimuths of Celestial Bodies | Crowdbooks
> 2019 “12 Artists of Tomorrow” | catalogue
> 2019 EXIBART – 222 Artisti emergenti su cui investire | edizione 2019, catalogue
> 2018 COMBAT PRIZE | catalogue
> 2018 SIFEST - On Being Now | catalogue
> 2017 JCE - Jeune Creation Europeenne | catalogue
> 2017 FOTOGRAFIA EUROPEA - Mappe del tempo, Memoria, archivi, futuro | catalogue
> 2017 INTERNATIONAL PHOTO PROJECT | catalogue
CONTACTS
levyfrancesco@gmail.com
LINKS
www.instagram.com/francescolevy/
