Dominique Lévy

Lévy was born in June 1967,[1] in Lausanne, Switzerland. Her father, a cotton merchant, left Egypt in 1956 after Gamal Abdel Nasser came to power.[2] She organized her first exhibition when she was 18.[3] 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.[2]

In 1999, headhunted by François Pinault,[2] 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.[2]

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.[4]

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.[5]. She co curated an exhibition of Pierre Soulages in New York in collaboration with Emmanuel Perrotin[6].

In 2015, her galleries exhibited Gerhard Richter's color charts,[7] miniatures of Alexander Calder,[8] Gego's work[9]

In 2017, she partnered with art dealer Brett Gorvy, former chairman and international head of post-war and contemporary art at Christie’s and they co founded Levy Gorvy with spaces in New York, London and Hong Kong[10].

In 2019, for the 100th birthday of Pierre Soulages, Levy Gorvy organized an exhibition ahead of his retrospective at the Musee du Louvre. Dominique Levy declared "The two projects complement each other and Alfred Pacquement, curator of the louvre exhibition is co-curator of the exhibition in New York, of which he wrote the catalog”. The aim of these two events is “to honor Soulages in Paris and New York, which are the 2 transformative places for him. It is also to celebrate the 100th birthday of this man, who has known Picabia and Mark Rothko and whose journey was not only European or French"[11].

The gallery currently represents the estate of Yves Klein, the estate of Roman Opalka, and the estate of Germaine Richier in the United States, as well as artists Enrico Castellani, Boris Mikhailov, Frank Stella, Pierre Soulages, and Günther Uecker.

• 2014: Movers and makers: the most powerful people in the art world, by The Guardian[12]
• 2013: Women in art, by Elle Magazine[2]
• 2012: 10 most influential art dealers, by Forbes[3][2]

• Official website
• Lévy Gorvy Gallery