EDUCATION
Diploma School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Boston, MA; Diploma in Painting, on Mary O.H. Longstrath Scholarship
BA Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA; BA in Zoology
2007- Visiting Scholar at NYU; PhD. candidate at Z-Node, a practice-based program for artists involved with science and technology.
SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS
2004-06 President College Art Association (CAA) (elected position).
2000 Studio Arts Theme Chair CAA 2000, NYC, Relationships among Art, Science, and Technology
1999 Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Arts and Sciences, Skidmore College, a position funded by the Henry Luce Foundation
1996 Award Recipient, AICA (Association International des Critiques D’Art), for Associated American Artists solo exhibition in Emerging Artist Category
Guest Editor with Sichel B, “Contemporary Art and the Genetic Code” Art Journal (Spring, 1996, 55:1), included Stephen J. Gould, Roald Hoffmann, Robert Shapiro, Dorothy Nelkin, Joe Davis, David Kremers
1985 Commission, NASA (The National Aeronautics and Space Administration) to create work based on the November 1985 launch of the Space Shuttle, Atlantis
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2002 Complexity, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, NY (cur Levy E, Galanter P), traveling exhibition
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS BY ELLEN K. LEVY (2001-present)
2006 “Art Enters the Biotechnology Debate: Questions of Ethics,” in Ethics and the Visual Arts, NY:Allworth Press (co-editors Levin, G and King, E), 2006, 199-216
“The Evolution of Art in the Age of Biotechnology: Cyborgs Meet Chimeras,” in Can we Fall in Love With a Machine,” Wood Street Studios (ed., Hart C), 105-110
2005 “l’art et l’industrie biotechnologique” in Art et Biotechnologies, GRAM (Montreal), Presses de l'Université du Québec, (eds., Poissant L, Daubner E.), 195-206
2004 “Art and the Human Brain: The Importance of Art on Roger Shepard’s Studies of Mental Rotation” (Levy E, Levy D, Goldberg M), Journal of the History of Neuroscience (invited contribution), 13:79-90
2003 “Complexity,” Leonardo Gallery Section: 36:4 (MIT Press), 259-267
“Initial Conditions to Final Results in the Complex Systems of Art and Science,” InterJournal (an online journal about complex systems), Manuscript Number: 599
2001 “Responses: Art and Biotechnology,” Art Journal, Spring, 60:1, 6
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
The Museum of Modern Art (Moscow)
New Britain Museum of American Art
The Newark (NJ) Museum
The National Academy of Sciences
International Business Machines (IBM)
The New Jersey State Museum
Rutgers Art Museum (Graphics Dept.)
The Prudential Insurance Company of America
Citicorp
Art Museum, Mount Holyoke College
Carnegie Associates
Malcolm Forbes (estate)
Sydney Lewis (Best Products)
RME Capital Corporation (Canada)
SUNY New Paltz Art Museum
BASF Corporation
Columbia University, Mahoney Center of Brain Research
Rothenberger Werkzeuge AG
