POSITIONS:

2004-06: President, College Art Association

EXHIBITS:

2007: “Public Secrets,” solo exhibit, Michael Steinberg Fine Arts, NYC

2007: “Global Warming,” group exhibit, Boulder (CO) Museum of Art, cur. L. Lippard

2006: “Evolutionⁿ,” solo exhibit, Michael Steinberg Fine Arts, NYC

2006: “Evolutionⁿ,” solo exhibit, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan (CT) University, cur. N. Felshin

2006: “Water,” at The Museum of Water, NYC

2006: “Mendel,” at the Field Museum, Chicago, cur. C. Albano, M. Wallace

2005: “From Natural to TechnoCulture: Our Brave New Worlds,” group show, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Program, Long Island City (NY), cur. S. Henry

2005: “Crude Oil,” group show, Akus Gallery, Willimantic, CT, cur. E. Sorokina

2005: “Atomica,” group show, Lombard/Fried and Esso Galleries, NYC, cur. O. Agro

2004: “Face Off,” group show, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, NYC

2003: “Me, Myself, and I,” group show, CRG Gallery, NYC

2003: “American Dream,” group show, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, NYC

2003: “From Code to Commodity,” group show, NY Academy of Sciences, NYC

2002-03: “PhotoGENEsis,” group show, Santa Barbara Museum Art, Santa Barbara, CA

2002: “Complexity,” group show, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY

2002: “Dialogue between Science & Art ,” group show, Ceske Budejovice (CZECH Republic), cur. M. Giboda

1998: Solo exhibits in NY and Europe on themes of “Housing Nature” (based on evolutionary comparisons betwen cultural and natural forms) Associated American Artists

1997: “Cabinet of Wonders” (based on the renovated Jardin des Plantes), Institute Cochin, Paris

1996: “Converging Lineages” (based on classification theory as applied to construction sites), Associated American Artists

1985: NASA commission for paintings based on launch of the space shuttle, Atlantis

Art/science shows at the National Academy of Sciences, the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the National Technical Museum in Prague

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REVIEWS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY:

2004: H. Cotter, “Face Off,” New York Times, Nov. 26, E-41

2003: B.H. Kevles and D.J. Kevles, “Truth, Beauty and Double Helix,” Newsweek International, Feb. 24, 43-44 (click for ) and posted on the web at msnbc.com

2003: B. Pollack, Gene therapy: Four new exhibits showcase DNA-doctored art Time Out New York, Issue 191

2003: M. Kemp, “The Mona Lisa of Modern Science,” Nature 421:416-420

2002 (Nov): D. Frizzell, “The Butterfly Effect,” NY Arts

2002 (May-Jun): Genome News Network featured the work of Ellen K. Levy

2001 (Sep): G. Berman in Juilliard Journal OnLine reviewed the Prague installation

2000: B.H. Kevles and M. Nissenson at geneart.org

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EDUCATION:
Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston, MA: Diploma (MFA equiv) in painting on a Mary O.H. Longstrath Scholarship and

Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA: BA in zoology

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HONORS:
Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Arts and Sciences, Spring, 1999 at Skidmore College, funded by the Henry Luce Foundation

Member, Executive Board, College Art Association (CAA), 2000-2004

Studio Arts Theme Chair, College Art Association Convention (CAA), 2000 in New York with a theme, “Modeling Nature,” which explored intersections among art, science, and technology

Award Recipient: Association International des Critiques D’Art (AICA), 1995-96

Commission: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 1985

Guest-editor of the spring, 1996 issue of the College Art Association’s Art Journal on “Contemporary Art and the Genetic Code” (with B. Sichel and text by S. J. Gould, R. Hoffmann, R. Root-Bernstein, M.  Kemp, and D. Nelkin). Click to view table of contents in or .

Guest-editor two issues on photography and science of The Center Quarterly (published by the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY)

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VISITING ARTIST, TEACHER, AND LECTURER:
Teacher at Brooklyn College, the School of Visual Arts, and Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

Visiting lecturer/teacher at Williams College, University of Hartford, University of Tennessee (Chattanooga), Drew University (NJ), the Brooklyn Museum School, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Art advisor/teacher in “Mathematics in Art / Art in Mathematics”, a program sponsored by Rutgers University and the Montclair (NJ) Museum of Art

Moderator, “SmART: Art that Learns from Nature,” SLSA panel, NYC (2006)

Panelist on “Monkey Business” (at the School of Visual Arts), “Art and Science at the End of the Millennium” (at the University of Hartford), “Underground Utopias” and “Housing Nature” (at annual meetings of the Society for the History of Technology), and selected as panelist by R. Root-Bernstein on “The Arts and Thinking” (Packer School, Brooklyn, NY)

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