Hannah Levy (b. 1991, New York, NY)
Hannah Levy sculpts works that blur the line between the organic and the industrial, transforming everyday objects—handrails, gym equipment, medial devices—into uncanny forms that suggest flesh, gesture, and hidden interiority. Her sculptures often fuse polished metal frames with silicone “skins,” glass, stone, and latex appendages; the result is tactile, disturbing, and intimate all at once. Curves, tension, distortion, and the defamiliarization of the familiar are central to her visual language.
Levy earned her BFA from Cornell University in 2013, and went on to receive the Meisterschüler title from Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main in 2015.
Her solo exhibitions include Pendulous Picnic (Casey Kaplan, New York), Surplus Tension (The Arts Club of Chicago), and Retainer (a High Line Commission, New York). She has also shown in major institutional contexts such as MATRIX 279 at UC Berkeley’s Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, The Milk of Dreams at the 59th Venice Biennale, and the Lyon Biennale (manifesto of fragility).
Levy’s residencies, commissions, and honors include her High Line public commission, participation in international biennials, and recognition in lists of emerging artists. Her work is represented in public and private collections that engage contemporary sculpture and design.
She lives and works in New York City.