BIO

Silvia Levenson
Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Silvia Levenson immigrated to Italy in 1981,
during the “disappearances” of the Dirty War .
She explore daily interpersonal relationships through installations and objects that state
firmly what is usually felt or whispered. Her work is centralized on this unspeakable space,
which is oftentimes so small, located between what we can see and what we feel and use
glass to reveal those things that are normally hidden.
In 2004, Levenson received the Rakow Commission Award from the Corning Museum of
Glass in 2008 she was a shortlisted nominee for the Bombay Sapphire Prize and in 2016
she received The Glass in Venice Award from Istituto Veneto, Venice, Italy.
Her work has been exhibited around the world and is a part of several public collections
like Corning Museum of Glass, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fè, Houston Fine Art
Museum, Toledo Museum of Art ,Mint Museum, Charlotte, Chrysler Museum of Art,
Sunderland Glass Museum, UK, Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes , Buenos Aires,
Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung , Munich, MUDAC , Lausanne and Castello Sforzesco
Museum, Milan


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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, Munich, Germany

Bullseye Glass Company, Portland (OR) USA

Coleccion Casas de las Americas, Cuba

Comune di Castelvetro, Castelvetro (Modena).Italy

Corning Museum of Glass, Corning USA ( Rakow Commision)

Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk. USA

David Owsley Museum. Ball State University, USA

Ernsting Glass Collection, Coestfeld, Germany

Fine Art Museum, Houston. USA

Fondazione Banca San Gottardo, Italy

Fondazione Remotti, Camogli. Italy

Glas Museum Fraueneau, Germany

Glasmuseum Ebeltoft, Denmark

Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, Portland (OR) USA

Mineapolis Institute for Arts. Mineapolis. USA

Mint Museum, Charlotte, USA

Musée du Verre Sars Poteries, France

Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes, La Plata. Argentina

Museo del Vetro di Murano, Venice. Italy

Museo del Vetro, Altare. Italy

Museo di Arte Applicate. Castello Sforzesco. Milan,Italy

Museo di Storia ed Arte, Sondrio, Italy

Museo del Vidrio Leon Rigaulleau,Buenos Aires, Argentina

Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts, Lausanne. Swiss.

National Glass Center, Sunderland. UK

New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fè. USA

Racine Art Museum. Wisconsin. USA

The Toledo Museum of Art. Toledo. USA

Tikanoja Art Museum, Vaasa, Finland

SELECTED SOLO SHOWS

2018
Identidad Desaparecida. Museo Memorial de la Republica Dominicana. Santo Domingo

2017
Doble Ausencias. Museo del Vetro. Altare (SV), Italy

Sguardi Incrociati, with Francesca Gagliardi. Zaion Gallery, Biella. Italy

2016
Interior Voices. National Glass Center. Sunderland. UK

Identidad Desaparecida. Bullseye Projects. Portland (OR) USA

Identidad Desaparecida. Museo del Vetro di Murano. Venice, Italy

I Amsterdam, with Lorch Seidel Gallery, Berlin

2015
Identidad. American University Museum. Washington DC. USA

Who in the world arm I? ( with Luca Lanzi) Lorch-Seidel Gallery.Berlin, Germany

Identidad Desaparecida EAC – Espacio Arte Contemporaneo – Montevideo, Uruguay

Without Camouflage ( with Dafna Kaffeman) . Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco. USA

Identidad Desaparecida. Argentinian Consulate, Barcelona. Spain

Identitè Disparue. Galerie Argentine. Paris, France

Missing Identity. Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum, Riga,Latvia

Missing Identity. Museum of Occupations.Tallin, Estonia

2014
Identidad Desaparecida. Casa de las Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo. Ex Esma. Buenos Aires. Argentina

A subject to avoid. David Richard Gallery. Santa Fé. New Mexico. USA

The secret order. Bullseye Gallery. Portland(OR) USA

Without Camouflage ( with Dafna Kafemann)David Owsley Museum of Art. Ball State University. USA

Wonderland. Antonella Cattani Gallery. Bolzano, Italy

2013
Not Neutral , con Mindy Weisel. Lorch-Seidel Gallery. Berlin

Ostaggi, with Elizabeth Aro, Sala Santa Rita, Rome, Italy

2012
Life Strategies. David Richard Gallery. Santa Fè, USA

Camouflage.Luciano Colantonio. Brescia. Italy

2011
Everything is OK. Galeria Solange Guez, Buenos Aires. Argentina

2010
El plan era perfecto, curator E.Aro. Sansalvatore Artproject. Modena, Italy

I feel in balance. Project room at Fondazione Durini, Milano. Italy

2009
Io ti perdono. Galleria Traghetto, Rome,Italy

Piccoli Ulisse.  Sansalvatore Artproject, Modena,Italy

2008
You are not living alone…. Bullseye Gallery. Portland (OR) USA

The kitchen, el corazon de la casa. Galeria Montoriol, Barcelona, Spain

(with Natalia Saurin)

2007
Happy forever, Caterina Tognon, Venice, Italy

2006
Something’s wrong, with Natalia Saurin. Galleria Arthobler. Porto. Portugal

Piccoli Ulisse, Festival della Letteratura, Mantova

Plaza de Mayo, Galleria Traghetto. Roma

Algo anda mal, video with Natalia Saurin , Argentine Embassy, Roma

2005
I see you are a bit nervous. Bullseye Gallery. Portland(OR) USA

( installation + video con Natalia Saurin)

2004
Toys & Games, project with Galleria Caterina Tognon , Art Miami Fair, USA

Sit down!, Olivier Houg, Lyon. Francia

Emergencias, project room at FIAC Paris, with Galleria Caterina Tognon

2003
Piccolo Ulisse, Galleria Caterina Tognon, Bergamo

Games and Fairly tales. Bullseye Connections Gallery, Portland. USA

Bambina spinosa, Arthobler Gallery,Porto, Portugal

2002
Silenzio, bambini .Caterina Tognon, Venice,Italy

Toys (two persons exhibition) Galleria San Salvatore, Modena

2001
Bambina Spinosa, Centro Arte Contemporanea Cavalese,Italy

Piccoli Tesori, Galeria Esther Montoriol, Barcelona, Spain

Correre ai ripari. Museo del Credito Valtellinese di Sondrio,Italy

Correre ai ripari . Fioretto Arte Contemporanea, Padua,Italy

Bambina Cattiva, Gemine Muse. Museo Archeologico. Padova,Italy

Piccoli tesori . Galleria Maria Cilena, Milan – Italy

2000
Bambina Cattiva, Galleria Caterina Tognon Bergamo,Italy

Design by Silvia Levenson, Braggiotti Gallery, Amsterdam(NL)

Haute Glass, Bullseye Gallery, Portland, USA

1999
Fashion Glass, Spring-Summer 1999. Maria Cilena Gallery, Milan,Italy

Fashion Glass. Glasmuseum Ebeltoft, Denmark

1998
Cenetta Intima (table for two). Bullseye Gallery, Portland. Oregon (USA)

Braggiotti Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)

1997
Non guardarmi così,tesoro, con F.Martinez. Care/of . Milan,Italy

1996
Cannibalisme des sentiments. Musée Atelier de Verre, Sars Poteries. France

Levenson/Northbrook. Bullseye Connection, Portland,Oregon USA

1995
Il viaggio, with Florencia Martinez. Mercato del Pesce, Milano

Valijas transparentes. Centro Recoleta, Buenos Aires

Il viaggio:Selected Works.Bullseye Connection, Portland.Oregon (USA)

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2018
The element of change. Glass Project. Berlin, Germany

I 2018. Levantart Gallery. Shangai. China

ContemporaneA. Bi box, Biella. Italy

2017
The blood of women. Traces of red on white cloth. Galerija Forum, Zagreb. Croazia

The Glass Cieling. Palm Spring Museum. USA

Arte & Tecnologia. Lan Wan Museum, Quingdao. China

Un passion partagée. Musee Atelier de Sars Poteries. France

2016
Glass from the collection Bellini Pezzoli. Archeological Museum, Zara

Art Byre Project, North Lands, Scotland organized by Bullseye Projects

Fired Up : Conntemporary Women working in glass. Mint Museum, Charlotte. USA

Departures and arrivals. Lorch Seidel Gallery, Berlin. Germany

The emotional life of objects. Bullseye Projects. Portland (OR) USA

Il Sangue delle Donne.Casa Internazionale delle donne. Roma, Italy

Life is not a beach. Alexander Tutsek Stiftung Munich, Germany

2015
Colors . Hempel Glass Museum. Hempel, Denmark

Contemporary Glass at RAM. Racine Art Museum. USA

Attravetro. Archeological Museum, Pavia, Italy

Delicartessen 14. Galeria Esther Montoriol. Barcelona, Spain

2014
Body Talk. Ebeltoft Glass Museum. Denmark

Progetto Turna, Turin, Italy

Retrospective. Bullseye Gallery. Portland (Or)USA

2013
Chroma. Bullseye Gallery. Portland (Or) USA

2012
Fino alla fine del Mondo. Zaion Gallery. Biella, Italy

Greffè/Griffè. Biennale Nationale de Sculpture Contemporaine. Trois Rivieres, Canada

In the name of love. Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung. Koln. Germany

Miniature di vetro. Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arte. Venice, Italy

“50 years of Glass Studio”. Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft. USA

Fiori di Vetro, Museo Bagatti Valsecchi, Milano, Italy

2011
Amorphous Dream, Micaela Gallery, San Francisco, USA

Caos Termici, Casa Massacio, San Giovanni Valdarno

Cross Over. Bullseye Gallery, Portland (OR) USA

Hans hat Glück, Castello Gandeg, Alto Adige. Italy

Donnedonnedonne.Fondazione Remotti. Camogli. Italy

BodyWork, Bullseye Gallery, Portland, USA

Principes, princesas y cenicientas. Complejo San Francisco, Berazategui, Buenos Aires

2010
From_&_t(w)o
. Kunst Meran, Italy ( Valerio Dehò curator)

Case Study from the Bureau of Contemporary Art.New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fè (USA)

Bad girls. Galleria Caterina Gualco e Visionquest Gallery, Genova

The taste of glass. Vlaams Centrum voor Hedendaagse Glaskunst , Belgium

Hi honey, I’m Home. Broadfield House Glass Museum, Stourbridge, UK

I Glass 2010, Levant Art Gallery. Shangai

Maravee Domus, Sabrina Zannier curator. Castello di Susans (UD). Italy

2009
PF O9 . Prague Festival,Pokorna Gallery, Praga (CZ)

Welcome Home,Spazio AB 23, Vincenza

Favourites! From the contemporary glass collection. Corning Glass Museum. Corning, USA

Beyond Shared Language: Contemporary Art and the Latin American Experience. Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh. USA

Incontri Casuali, Zaion Gallery, Biella

Glass from Malou Majerus Collection. Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf. Germany

2008
European Glass Context.Bornholms Kunst Museum, Denmark

La Giostra dell’apocalisse. Rotonda della Besana, Milano

Flux, Reflections in Contemporary Glass, New Mexico Museum of Art,Santa Fè. USA

Presenters, Bullseye Gallery. Portland (OR) USA

My own Gallery, Milano. Bombay Sapphire Prize

Yalos, why Glass? Claudia Gianferrari, Milano

Yalos, why glass?. Caterina Tognon, Venezia

Shoes, Tikanoja Art Museum, Vaasa, Finland

Visionaria 17, Piombino

Videa2, rassegna di video art al femminile. Salerno

Videa2, rassegna di video art al femminile. Palazzo Strozzi, Ferrara

Delicartessen, Galeria Esther Montoriol, Barcelona, Spain

2007
Italien Ways in Contemporary Craft.Cheongiu International Craft Biennale, Korea

Aria. Fondazione Ermanno Casoli, Jesi

Annisettanta. Triennale. Milano

Il viaggio di Eva. Comune de San Donato Milanese (MI)

2 video, project on line, Undonet

A cena con Isabella, Museo Nazionale Atestino, Este

2006
Crafting a collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (USA)

Glass, Material Matters, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (USA)

XX Years On, GLasmuseum Ebeltof, Denmark

Rompecabezas, Galeria Montoriol, Barcelona. Spain

Biennale della fotografia, Brescia,Italy

Contemporary Kiln-Glass at Houston Center. USA

Contemporary Kiln Glass, University of Miami, College of Arts and Sciences Gallery, Florida. USA

2005
Quadriennale.Roma. Italy

Chez moi. Galleria Erasmus Brera.Milano

Sotto la superficie. Fabbrica del Vapore. Milano

Global Art Glass.Borgholms Slott. Vida Museum Sweden

2004
Something Different, Quadrivum Gallery. Sydney. Australia

Lilith, women in art. Scuderie Aldrobrandi. Frascati,Italy

Neruda. Istituto Latinoamericano, Roma

Pranzo di nozze, Fioretto Arte Contemporanea, Padova

Delicartessen, Galeria Esther Montoriol, Barcelona, Spain

Me design. Palazzo della Borsa, Genova

2003
Interior secrets of body, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary

Imagerie Art Fashion, Castello di Rivara, Trieste

Chaussè-croisés, Gewerbemuseum Wintherhtur, Germany

The Light Within, Kentucky Art Museum,USA

XS, Galleria San Salvatore, Modena

Fresh, Heller Gallery, New York USA

Delicartessen, Galeria Esther Montoriol, Barcelona, Spain

2002
Glass Way, Museo Archeologico. Aosta. Italy

Musica per occhi, Conservatorio, Bolzano. Italy

Galerie Olivier Houg, Lyon, France

Luoghi di Concentramenti, Artandgallery. Milano

Braggiotti Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Il lato scuro della letteratura. B&B Gallery, Mantua, Italy

Museum of Design, Lausanne. Swiss

Galeria Esther Montoriol, Barcelona. Spain

2001
Ghost, GianFerrari Arte Contemporanea & Ciocca Gallery, Milan, Italy

Tagli . Spazio Erasmus, Milano

Tutto l’odio del mondo. Arengario, Milano

Hora Cero, Galleria Esther Montoriol, Barcelona, Spain

La notte dei Musei. Bergamo

2000
Sui Generis. PAC, Milan

Frangibile. Spazio Trevi, Bolzano

Trapassato Futuro. Cartiera Vannucci, Milano

Vocazioni . Convento dei Celestini,Bergamo

All about Eve, Fioretto Gallery, Padova

No crime. San Salvatore Gallery, Modena, Italy

1999
Novecento, frammenti di un secolo breve. Festa Nazionale dell’Unità. Modena

12thAnniversary, Braggiotti Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)

1998
Preview, Galleria Maria Cilena, Milano.

Interpretations. Glasmuseum Ebeltoft, Denmark

Full Circle. Hoffman Gallery Portland,USA

Cronache Vere. Spazio Consolo, Milano

Ernsting Fondation,Alter Hof Herding, Coesfeld , Germany

L’opening è dentro. Istituto Penitenziario Minorile C.Beccaria

1997
O che acontece quando se muda de lugar,Contemporary Art Museum. Belo Orizonte, Brasil

3 person exhibition. Ernsting Fondation,Alter Hof Herding, Coesfeld, Germany

Galleria D’arte & Divetro , Bergamo

Braggiotti Gallery, Amsterdam

1996
Tracce/Huellas. Fuoricentro Gallery, Roma

1995
Libro Objeto. Centro Wilfredo Lam. La Habana, Cuba

International Exhibition of Glass, Kanazawa. Japan

SELECTED AWARDS, RESIDENCIES AND LECTURES

2018 Wilson Conference “ Who in the world am I?” at GAS Conference in Murano, Italy

2017 Conference “ The Plan was perfect”. Palazzo Loredan, Venice. Italy

2017 Visiting Instructor at Art Accademy. Brera, Milano, Italy

2017 Key Speaker at “ Women and Art Symposium”, National Glass Center, Sunderland. UK

2016 Glass in Venice Award. Istituto Veneto,Venice. Italy

2016 jury at New Glass Review 37, Corning Museum. USA

2016 invited artist at Byre Symposium. Northlands Creative Glass, Scotland

2016 jury at Salon Nacional del Vidrio. Berazategui, Argentina

2015 artist in residence, Berlin Glass

2015 Lecture at Australian University. Canberra, Australia

2014 artist in residence. Sunderland University. UK

2013 Lecture at Bezalel Art University. Jerusalem. Israel

2012 Jury at E-MERGE 2012. Portland OR (USA)

2011 Presenter at “Next 100 years”. Aalto University. Helsinki, Finland

2011 Presenter at BeCon, Crossover. Portland, Or. USA

2010 Jury at Warm Glass Prize. Bristol UK

2009 Visiting artist at Australia University,(ANU), Canberra, Australia

2008, Finalist , Bombay Saphire Prize

2005 artist in residence, Corning Museum of Glass. USA

2004 Rakow Commission Award Recipient, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NW

1998 artist in residence at Bullseye Co. USA

1996 artist in residence at Musée Atelier de Verre, Sars Poteries. France

1995 artist in residence at Bullseye Co. USA

CURATOR

2014 Arte KM0,tutor at residency and show. Big Bang Association, Italy

2011 Principes, Princesas y Cenicientas. Complejo Municipal San Francisco. Berazategui, Argentina

2010 Hi Honey, I’m Home. Broadfield House Glass Museum, UK

2008 Memorie sotto vetro. Glassmusset Ebeltoft, Denmark

2006 Levenson & Vetroricerca, Museo di Alcorcon, Spain

2005 Memorie sotto vetro. Bolzano, Italy