Dominique Lévy

Dominique Astrid Lévy (born June 1967) is a Swiss art dealer, and co-founder and partner, with Brett Gorvy, of Lévy Gorvy Dayan, a gallery with offices in New York City, London, Switzerland, Hong Kong and Paris.

Early life Lévy was born in June 1967, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Her mother was born in Belgium and was an art collector. Her father, a cotton merchant, left Egypt in 1956 after Gamal Abdel Nasser came to power.

She attended Art Basel at the age of three

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. During college, she worked as an actress and a clown, performing a parties.

L&M Arts, 2005–2013 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 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. She co-curated an exhibition of Pierre Soulages in New York in collaboration with Emmanuel Perrotin.

In 2015, her galleries exhibited Gerhard Richter's color charts, miniatures of Alexander Calder, Gego's work.

Lévy Gorvy, 2017–2021 In 2017, Lévy 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. In 2020, the gallery added a Paris space.

In 2019, for the 100th birthday of Pierre Soulages, Lévy Gorvy notably organized an exhibition ahead of his retrospective at the Musee du Louvre.

The gallery currently represented the estates of Yves Klein, Roman Opalka, Germaine Richier and Carol Rama (since 2016) in the United States, as well as artists Enrico Castellani, Boris Mikhailov, Frank Stella, Pierre Soulages, and Günther Uecker. From 2017 until 2020, it also worked with the estate of François Morellet.

LGDR In August 2021, Lévy Gorvy announced plans to join forces with Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn and Amalia Dayan. The gallery would continue operations under the banner of Lévy Gorvy Dayan.

Controversies The three dealers wrote a response joint statement in Artforum to an open letter that a number of artists, writers, and other cultural producers made for the need of art institutions to speak out on Israel’s airstrikes on Gaza. The original letter did not mention Palestine's attack on October 7 that killed 1,200 Israelis. In the years of war following that attack, Israel has killed at least 17,000 Palestinians, nearly half of which are children, in retaliation during the ongoing Israel-Palestinian conflict. Notably, Amalia Dayan is the granddaughter of Israeli military leader and politician Moshe Dayan.

Personal life Levy had a long-term relationship with Dorothy Berwin, a film producer. The couple met in 1998 at the London premiere of a film co-produced by Berwin. The two started living together in 2001. For many year, the couple lived in a 6-bedroom, 6,000+ square-foot loft in Soho at 140 Franklin Street. In 2007, they purchased a 5,000-square-foot apartment at 170 East End Avenue for $12 million. For more than two years, the apartment in SoHo languished on the market. Initially priced at $12.2 million, the property eventually sold for just $7.9 million. They separated in 2019.

Recognition 2014: Movers and makers: the most powerful people in the art world, by The Guardian 2013: Women in art, by Elle Magazine 2012: 10 most influential art dealers, by Forbes