Dominique Lévy
| Dominique Lévy | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Dominique Astrid Lévy June 1967 (age 49) |
| Nationality | Swiss |
| Alma mater | University of Geneva |
| Occupation | art dealer and gallerist |
| Known for | Lévy Gorvy Gallery |
| Partner(s) | Dorothy Berwin |
| Parent(s) | André Lévy |
Dominique Astrid Lévy (born June 1967) is a Swiss art dealer, and a co-founder and partner with Brett Gorvy in Lévy Gorvy, a gallery with offices in New York City, London, and Geneva.
Dominique Astrid Lévy was born in June 1967, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Her father, André Lévy, a cotton merchant, left Egypt in 1958 after Gamal Abdel Nasser came to power. She organized her first exhibition when she was 18. Lévy studied art history and politics at the University of Geneva and received a BA in Political Science and an MA in Sociology of Art.
In 1987, she did her first internship for Christie's in New York. When she came back to Switzerland, she was hired by Simon de Pury to work at Sotheby's where she worked for four years. Afterwards, she worked with French art dealer Daniel Malingue on the opening of his gallery, and followed his co-director, Simon Studer, in the creation of an art curation business. Then she joined the team of London's art dealer Anthony d’Offay.
In 1999, headhunted by François Pinault, Lévy founded and was the international director of the private sales department at Christie's in New York. In 2003, she founded Dominique Lévy Fine Art, a boutique art advisory service with a focus on building long-term relationships with collectors. In August 2005, Lévy co-founded L&M Arts with Robert Mnuchin, which was based in New York and Los Angeles. The bi-coastal gallery provided client services and organized exhibitions of modern and postwar art, as well as new work by such artists as David Hammons and Paul McCarthy.
In September 2013, Dominique Lévy Gallery opened its Manhattan space with the exhibition Audible Presence: Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Cy Twombly, which was accompanied by the first public performance in New York of Yves Klein's seminal Monotone Silence Symphony.
In October 2014, Dominique Lévy expanded to London, opening a location at historic 22 Old Bond Street, close to the Royal Academy of Arts in the city's Mayfair district.
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