Based on live testimony, historical documents from my Egyptian Jewish family’s archives, and fragments from the renowned Cairo Geniza discovered in the 19th century in the Ben Ezra synagogue in Cairo, which includes documents from the 9th-19th centuries. Fatherland Archives illuminates the vanished world of Egyptian Jewish life and culture.
Dana Levy was born in Tel Aviv and lives and works in New York.
She was the 2019/2020 Freund Teaching Fellow at the Sam Fox School of Art in Washington University, St. Louis. She was the 2020 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Digital/Electronic Arts from The New York Foundation for the Arts. Other awards include the 2017 City of Budapest talent Award, and the 2013 the Beatrice Kolliner Award from the Israel Museum.
In 2021 her solo exhibition opened at the Saint Louis Art Museum, other solo exhibitions include at Fridman Gallery NYC (2019), The Israel Museum Jerusalem (2015), Petach Tikva Museum of Art (2014), Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv (2012), Nicelle Beauchene Gallery NYC (2010), and more.
She has participated in group shows and screenings including at Videonale at the Kunstmuseum in Bonn (2021), C24 gallery NYC (2019) Screen City Biennal Stavanger (2018), Kadist Gallery San Francisco (2017), Johannes Vogt Gallery NYC (2016), Fridman Gallery NY (2015) Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena (2014), Wexner Center of Art (2012), The Bass Museum (2012), Tribeca Film Festival (2013), The Tel Aviv Museum (2016), Harn Museum of Art (2019), Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (2010), Tate London (2010), Invisible Exports NY (2010) and more.