Helen Levin
Staten Island, NY
1963 MFA, Columbia University (Painting)
1962 BFA, Hunter College
1980s-1990s Post graduate workshops at Women’s Studio Workshop, Pratt Manhattan Center, School of Visual Arts, Center for Book Arts
2023 Wagner College Union Gallery, Staten Island, NY. Sept. 2023
2021 Arts Council of Palm Beach County, Lake Worth, FL April-May 2021.
2011 Staten Island Museum. Gesture in Paint and Software. Helen Levin and Golan Levin, intergenerational exhibit. July 7, 2011 - Jan. 8, 2012
2010 Ezair Gallery, NYC. Paintings
2008 Agence BNP - Paribas, Espace Culturel, Nice, France - Paintings
2007 Mikst Media Gallery, Woudrichem, the Netherlands - Paintings
2006 Ceres Gallery, NY: Paperworks: Dreams and Innovations - Collages
2005 55 Mercer Gallery, - NYC, Large 2-person show, paintings, Invitational
2000 Art Lab Gallery ⁄ Snug Harbor Cultural Center, SI: “Helen Levin, Creative Output” SI, NY
1998-2007 Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art Garden, Flag Series Installation, SI,NY
1994 Wagner College Union Gallery, SI, NY: “Helen Levin: Paintings on Paper and Canvas”
1986 New York Open Center, NYC - “Earth Celebrations” - Paintings
1984 Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ “Recent Paintings”
2023 Women in the Arts Fndn. Inc. Online Exhibition
2017 Newhouse Gallery, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, “Art of the Five: S.I.”
2015 Carter Burden Gallery, NYC. Painting
2015 Arts Unbound, Orange, NJ (Invitational)
2015 Arts Council, Staten Island. 2 Paintings in new offices / site in SI Ferry Terminal
2014 Westbeth Gallery, NYC. 4 person show, paintings, Invitational.
2011 Inselgalerie “International Jewish Women Artists.” Berlin, Germany. Painting
2011 St. John′s University of Staten Island. - Collage
2008, 2006 Pleiades Gallery. Painting
2008 Staten Island Museum, Craftcase Exhibit, - Artist’s Book
2006 Mauro Graphics Gallery, “Artists as Artists as Art,” SI, NY, Photographs. (Self-curated)
2006 Paper Slam, Innovative Paperworks. NY Law School, NYC, Collages. (Self-curated)
2007 Pleiades Gallery - UCAE group show - Collage
2006, 2005 Ceres Gallery group show, co-op members, Friends of Ceres
2005 Synagogue for the Arts, NYC - Paintings, Gestural Abstraction, I curated.
2005 Gallery 402 of Organization of Independent Artists - Works on Paper, NYC
2004 Camera Club Gallery, NYC Group show: May 1 - May 15 - Photo
2003 SOHO 20 Invitational, NYC - Painting.
2003 Kentler International Drawing Center - Bklyn, NY. Wallbooks
2006–2002 and 1999, 1997, 1991 Broome Street Gallery, NYC - Paintings
2003, 1998, 1992. SI Institute of Arts and Sciences Biennials, N.Y. - Paintings, artists’ books.
2002 Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Access Gallery, Sculptural Artists Books, “Orihon and More”; I curated.
2002 Organization for Independent Artists Gallery, NYC - artists’ books
2000 Gallery 2/20, NY - Artists’ books, Wallbook
2000 Atrium Gallery of Chubb Ins.Corp.,Warren,NJ. Women Abstract Painters - I curated
1996, 1994 Westbeth Gallery, NYC - Paintings
1989 Nabisco Brands Gallery, E.Hanover, NJ. Painting Exhibit. Women in the Arts. I curated.
Hudson River Museum of Art, Yonkers, NY. Painting: “Earth Celebration”
Museum of Fine Arts of St. Petersburg, FL: Collage: “Twins of a Different Mother”
NYPL Stapleton Branch Library,SI. 2 Paintings: “Nature” and “Journey Sequence”
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, NYC: Painting, (Jerusalem) “Marketplace Reverie”
Brauer Museum of Art, IN: “Wallbook W” and “Wallbook X”
Hilliard Art Museum of Art, LA, Paintings: “Arch-Homage C”+”Arch-Homage H”
Museum of Modern Art, NY “Nested Pentabook” (Artists’ Book Collection)
Brooklyn Museum of Art, (Artist’s Book:Images and English Transl.), “L’Etang Chimérique”(L. Ferré)
Staten Island Museum, 2 paintings: “Arch-Homage VII” and ”Mindscape R”.
Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Israel, from Mail Art Show (’86); sculpture, Baby Punk.
Museum of the City of New York, Painting: “Conference House,SI”
Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art Garden (SI,NY): Abstract Flags (1996 through 2013)
Memorial Sloan Kettering, NYC Clinics: Five paintings.
Inselgalerie of Berlin, Germany, Painting: “Soupçon.”
NYPL, Huguenot Branch, SI,.Sculptural Maquettes for series, “Family Configurations”
International House Residence,NYC:2 shaped paintings: “Reflections,” “LaDanse I”
YellowFellow Fndn.,Netherlands,c/o Jan Verhoeven..Painting:“Distant Shores”+ “Wallbook Z”
MoMA, Guggenheim, Franklin Furnace, Donnell, Bklyn Museum of Art, Avery of Columbia University. My multiple artist’s book (1978): “Brainstorms, My Autobio. In Poems +Drawings”
Catalog of exhibit I curated: Orihon and More, Books by Artists is in collections of Tate Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum.Handconstructed by N. Nix.
Joanne Bober, CEO and attorney for JC Penney Corp. Texas : 2 Paintings
Dr. Pavla Bednarek, MD, in CA. Four paintings.
Artist Grants, Awards, Residencies
2008 Chenven Foundation, Grant for Painting
2002 Richmond County Savings Foundation, S.I., N.Y. Book Art catalog grant.
2002 Organization of Independent Artists, NYC., Exhibit - curation award
1993,1994 Dept. Of Cultural Affairs, Greater NY Arts Dev. Fund - 2 solo exhibits grants
1980 Artists Space, NYC- Exhibition grant
1994 Vermont Studio Center - residency
1992 Saskatchewan Artists ⁄ Writers Guild - Painting residency Muenster, SK
1991 Palenville Interarts Center painting residency
1983 Artpark Family Art Workshops
1963 Columbia University Scholarship, Grad. Program in the Arts - Painting scholarship
2011 “Opposites Attract,” R.Molaro, Industry Magazine, P. 60-61. July, Aug.
2011 “Helen Levin and Golan Levin...” Ed McCormack, Gallery and Studio July, Aug.
2011 “Like Mother Like Son,” M. Fressola, “Arts and Leisure” section. SI Advance. Oct.2, 2011.
“ Helen Levin in Mikst Media Gallery” - De Cultuurkrant - (Netherlands), April - May 2007
“Helen Levin” review, Ceres show by Robert Sievert, ARTEZINE.Online, Issue #13, 7-2006
“Six Artists Prove Primacy of the Gesture”, J. Sanders Eaton,GALLERY & STUDIO 11/12-05
“Newhouse Exhib. Suggests New Ways of Viewing Books”, M. Fressola, SI ADVANCE 8-23-02
“Helen Levin: Profile” Council on the Arts and Humanities of SI newsletter 2-94
“The Artist as Teacher...” Howard Farber, ARTSPEAK 5-93
“Art Lab Exhibiting Works by Helen Levin”, M. Fressola, SI ADVANCE 10-13-00
“Abstract Expressionism at Wagner College Gallery”, M. Fressola, SI ADVANCE, 10-28-94
“Awakening the Spirit of Abstraction”, CREATIVE INSIGHT - magazine, NYC
“Four Rewarding Solo Shows”, J. Merkel, ARTSPEAK, NYC 12-96
“Exhibit Belies Smug Assumptions...” Eileen Watkins, NEWARK STAR LEDGER 3-5-89
“Discoveries of a New Season”, B. Palmer Poroner, ARTSPEAK 9-17-81
“Eight Women Display Artistic Talents”, DAILY NEWS SI ed. 11-11-79
2018 Book:How Abstract Art Changed Society (by J.Verhoven). Essay and Art Image by Helen Levin. P.146, 147
2011 SI Museum: 130th Anniversary Journal cover. Painting: Arch-Homage VII
2011 Jewish Women Artists IV, Book by Hedwig Brenner (in German).
2011 Jewish Women Artists exhibition catalog, Inselgalerie, Berlin, Germany.
2008 Textbook Cover: Thinking Through Communication (Trenholm) Painting: Mindscape S
2006 Krasdale Foods Corporation, catalog: “Ceres Gallery Revisited”
2003 “Beyond the Page” Kentler Internat’l Drawing Cntr., Bklyn Pub. Libary, catalog
2002 Newhouse’s Access Gallery, SI, NY. - catalog - “Orihon and More”, etc.
1998 “World Artists for Tibet” Internat’l Events Calendar Booklet
WILSON LIBRARY BULLETIN, Cover reproduction: Painting,“Autumn Ground” - May 1994
1993 Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences Biennial Juried Art Exhibition - catalog
1992 “Women: Diversity and Vision” Art Lab Gallery, Snug Harbor Cult. Ctnr., SI - catalog
Small Gifts, A Memoir of an Artist in the Classroom (self published) 2019. On Amazon
New York Arts Magazine - 7 articles since 2004
Leonardo, Journal of Art, Science, and Technology “Endnote” 2002 + Leonardo Online 2008
Staten Island Advance - 5 articles in the 1980s, including a feature on the Noguchi Museum
SI Register - 30 articles, art reviews, and features in the 1978 - 1980.
Women Artists News 1980s : Art Reviews
New Directions for Women 1980s Book Reviews
Evaluation reviews of Visual Arts programs for the NY State Council on the Arts as a Field Representative 1981-1983