Florencia Levy
Visual artist, researcher and educator. With mutant methodologies that traverse disciplines, her practice attempts to approach a place of sensitive knowledge through long-term research projects that explore forms of subjectivities in relation to history, recollection, and intimacy within public space. Her work is often supported by fieldwork and on-site interviews, crossing mediums ranging from site-specific installations, film, and photography to community-based projects and publications, focusing on the political resonance of places and objects concerning conflict and affect.
Guided by the proximity to others, and thinking with the more-than-human, her work is currently exploring the relationships between geological time, the implications of contemporary technology production, and the dynamics between historical extraction processes, manufacturing, and consumption.
She studied at Central Saint Martins College of Arts in London and at Universidad Nacional de Artes in Buenos Aires. She has won international fellowships for participate in Artist Residencies in The Netherlands, Japan, USA, Taiwan, Cuba, South Korea, Malaysia, Poland, Israel, China and Switzerland. In 2020 and 2015 she won the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, New York, USA; in 2019 and 2016 she received the Creation Grant from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes.
She has received numerous awards and distinctions, among them: Premio Konex Arte y tecnología 2022; Lichter Art Award, Frankfurt, Germany 2021; Trabucco Otros Soportes Award, 2020; Presidency of the Nation Award for the Third Best Work of the National Salon, 2019; Honourable Mention Loop Discover International Award, Barcelona, Spain, 2019; Best Short Film Award Arquivo em Cartaz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2018; Second Prize Itaú Artes Visuales, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2018; First Prize Arte x Arte, 2017; First Prize at the Puebla Video Biennial, Mexico, 2016; Second Prize Norberto Griffa, Biennial of the Moving Image, 2016; Acquisition Prize Bienal de las Fronteras 2015, Tamaulipas, Mexico; Second Prize Klemm Foundation Award, 2015; First Prize Latin American Video Art Festival, 2012; 1st Prize Young Artists at the National Painting Prize of the Central Bank; Third Prize in Painting at the National Salon of Visual Arts, among others. She has exhibited her work in national and international institutions, such as the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany; the Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia; Arko Art Centre, Seoul, South Korea; National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile; POLIN Museum, Warsaw, Poland; OSDE Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre in Hong Kong, among others.
Since 2021, she co-directs the Contemporary Art Practices Degree from the School of Art and Heritage at Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires, where she also directs the Art and Science Research Centre.
In 2024, she is representing Argentina at the 15th Gwangju Biennale, in South Korea.
