Pamela Levy

Pamela Levy (; 1949–2004) was an Israeli artist.

Biography Pamela Denman (later Levy) was born in Fairfield, Iowa. She completed her B.A. at the University of Northern Iowa. In 1972, she moved to New Mexico and joined an artists commune in Santa Fe. In 1976, she immigrated to Israel after converting to Judaism and marrying Itamar Levy, a psychologist and art critic.

In 2004, Levy died in Jerusalem of cardiac arrest.

Art career Levy's early works were hand-sewn textile collages influenced by the feminist Pattern and Decoration art movement. From the 1980s, she began to paint large figurative oils based on photographs.

Awards and recognition In 1980, Levy won a Guggenheim Foundation grant. In 1987, she won the Jacques and Eugene O'Hana Prize for a young Israeli artist, and in 1990, she was awarded the Israel Minister of Education and Culture Prize for Painting and Sculpture. She participated in group exhibitions at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and held solo exhibitions at the Tel Aviv and Herzliya art museums, as well as art galleries in the United States, Germany, Australia and Israel. In 1996 she received a Heitland Foundation Grant, taking her to Hanover, Germany. The following year she was an Artist in Residence at the Canberra School of Art in Australia.

Solo exhibitions 1978 Russ Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 1979 Debel Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel 1981 American Cultural Center, Jerusalem, Israel 1981 Artists' House, Jerusalem, Israel 1981 Alternate Space Gallery, New York City, United States 1982 Ahad Ha'am Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 1985 Aika Brown Gallery, Artists' Studios, Jerusalem, Israel 1987 Gimel Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel 1987 Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 1989 Aika Brown Gallery, Artists' Studios, Jerusalem, Israel 1990 Nelly Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 1994 "Paintings, 1983-1994", Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel (catalogue ) 1995 Galerie im b.i.b., Hanover, Germany (catalogue) 1995 Galerie Zonig and Mock, Hanover, Germany (catalogue) 1996 Nelly Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 1996 Kunstverein, Holzminden, Germany 1997 Nelly Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 1997 "Aquarelle und Olbilder", Kunstverein, Gifhorn, Germany 1997 Photospace, Canberra School of Art, ANU, Canberra, Australia 1999 "Paintings: Class Picture", Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, Israel (catalogue) 1999 Nelly Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 2001 "Paintings", Golconda Fine Art, Tel Aviv, Israel (catalogue) 2002 "Woodcuts", Gallery of the David Yelin Teachers Academy, Jerusalem 2003 "Pamela's Zoo", Golconda Fine Art, Tel Aviv, Israel (catalogue)

Book illustrations 1998 Monsoon: Poems by Media by Dahlia Ravikovitch, with woodcuts by Pamela Levy, Even Hoshen, Ra'anana