Sonia Levy's research-led practice considers shifting modes of engagement with other/more-than-human worlds in light of prevailing earthly precarity. Her work operates at the intersection of art and science, a co-becoming of practices tending to the reweaving of multispecies worlds.
She is currently based in London.
Friends & Collaborators
Dr Heather Swanson - School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University
Dr Jamie Craggs - Project Coral, The Horniman Museum and Gardens
Dr Marianne H Rasmussen -The University of Iceland Research Centre on Cetaceans in Húsavík
Alexandra Arènes & Soheil Hajmirbaba - SOC
Dr Frédérique Ait-Touati - EHESS/SPEAP
Nella Aarne & Sam Smith - Obsidian Coast
Gustav Geir Bollason - Verksmiðjan á Hjalteyri
Olga Koroleva - The Political Animal
She is the 2022 recipient of the
S+T+ARTS4Water’s “The Future of High Waters” residency hosted by TBA21, and she was the 2021 commissioned artist at Radar Loughborough and Aarhus University’s Ecological Globalization Research Group. Levy was a participant in the 2020 Artquest’s Peer Forum ‘Rewilding’ at the Horniman Museum and Gardens. She has exhibited in the UK and internationally, including shows and screenings at Centre Pompidou, Paris; Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris; Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris; ICA, London; BALTIC, Gateshead; Obsidian Coast, Bradford-on-Avon; Goldsmiths College, London; The Showroom, London; Pump House Gallery, London; ZKM Karlsruhe, Art Laboratory Berlin; HDKV, Heidelberg; Futura/Karlin Studios, Prague; Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge MA; Verksmiðjan á Hjalteyri, Iceland; and The Húsavík Whale Museum, Iceland.
Her work has been published by MIT Press, Antennae Journal, The Learned Pig, Billebaude, Verdure Engraved, and has appeared in NatureCulture and Parallax journals. She recently presented her research at NYU Gallatin, New York, The University of California, Santa Cruz, The Iceland Academy of the Arts, The Oslo School of Environmental Humanities, Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, and AURA: Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene.
Sonia Levy graduated from Villa Arson, École des Beaux–Art de Nice in France as well as École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.
In 2016 she took part in the Experimental Programme in Political Arts (SPEAP) at the School of Public Affairs, Sciences Po Paris. A programme developed and led by professor Bruno Latour.