Joel D. Levinson

Joel D. Levinson was born in Bridgeport, CT on April 24, 1953. He received a BA in Communications in 1975 and a Masters in Visual Arts in 1978 from the University of California, Berkeley. During his time at the University of California, Levinson was elected president of the university's photographic organization and received the Eisner Award in 1978 from the university for "Outstanding Achievement in Photography".

Levinson has had two books to date, including "Fleamarkets" and "Joel D. Levinson, Photographs". A third book, "After Eden", is currently in the works. There have been more than 50 magazine and international print articles featuring his work, including Aperture, Art, Artforum, Artfactum, Arts, Artweek, High Performance, Horizon, Interview, New Art International, People, Picture and Zoom.

Besides these two books, Levinson is also listed in Witkin and London's The Photograph Collector, the Macmillan Biographical Encyclopedia of Photographic Artists & Innovators; and Of People and Places: The Floyd and Josephine Segel Collection of Photography. He has been included in every edition of Who's Who in American Art since 1984. He is also in the Auer & Auer and the George Eastman House databases of photographers.

Levinson has had more than 31 one-man shows, including shows at the Center for Creative Photography-Tucson, the O.K. Harris Gallery, the Lamagna Gallery, the Mateyka Gallery, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Art Museum of South Texas, the Louisville J.B. Speed Art Museum, the Midwest Museum of American Art, the Crocker Art Museum, the Runter Museum of Art, the Davidson Art Center (Wesleyan University), the America Haus-Berlin, the Sprengel Art Museum, and the Wilhelm Hack Art Museum.

Museum and institutional collections that include Levinson's work (not including the above institutions): the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Bibliotheque National-Paris, the Boston Museum of Fine Art, the Brandeis Institute, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the California State University-Long Beach Library, the Denver Art Museum, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Musee Nicephore Niepce, the Museum fuer Kunst und Gewerbe-Hamburg, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Richmond Art Center, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the University of Minnesota Art Gallery, the University of Oklahoma Museum of Art, the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the Yale University Art Gallery. His work is also in other important corporate and individual collections.

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