Artist Resume
b. Johannesburg, South Africa.
South African and German citizen.
1991
Graduates at Woodmead High School, JHB, with distinctions in Art and Drama.
1992 - 1996
BA Fine Arts from Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town.
Dean’s Merit List; 3rd & 4th years.
Graduates with distinction in painting (BAFA Honours).
http://www.michaelis.uct.ac.za
1996 - 1998
Exhibitions :
Michaelis Graduate Show, Cape Town.
International Exhibition of Art Colleges in Hiroshima, Japan.
Johannesburg Biennale; ‘Cunning Stunts’ Jhb Fringe.
Warren Siebrits Group Show, Jhb.
1999 - 2018
Works primarily as a film director with intermittent painting practice (Film resume available on request).
Lives and works in London from 2002 to 2010.
2010
Returns to Cape Town to continue directing and painting.
Group Show ‘Big Wednesday’ at WHATIFTHEWORLD Gallery, Cape Town. https://www.whatiftheworld.com
2011
Solo exhibition ‘Nature Ends’ - painted works with WHATIFTHEWORLD Gallery, Cape Town. https://www.whatiftheworld.com
2012 - 2017
Continues in film.
2018
Moves into full time painting practice.
September - Exhibits painted works on Michaelis Alumni ‘ReGroup’ group show - 196 Victoria, Woodstock.
December - Exhibits painted works on ‘Penumbra’ group show - Desmond Tutu Inst. CT. Curated by Wendy Fredriksson.
2019
February - Kalashnikovv Gallery at Investec Art Fair, Cape Town. https://kalashnikovv.com
April - Project Room Solo exhibition at Kalashnikovv Gallery, Johannesburg. https://kalashnikovv.com
October - Group Exhibition - 131 Gallery, Woodstock, Cape Town. https://www.131agallery.com
2020
February - Group Exhibition - 131 Gallery, Woodstock, Cape Town. https://www.131agallery.com
February - Kalashnikovv Gallery at Investec Art Fair, Cape Town. https://kalashnikovv.com
March - Everard Read Cape Town - selected works on Autumn group show. https://www.everard-read.co.za
August - Solo Exhibition - 'Asymmetrical Identities' 131 Gallery, Woodstock, Cape Town.(Exhibition moved to online due to Covid) https://www.131agallery.com
2021
November/December - Group Exhibition - 131 Gallery, Woodstock, CT. https://www.131agallery.com
2022
Participating artist: INVICTUS - NFT Lab ‘Out Of Africa’ Collection https://cdn.invictuscapital.com/NFT/NFT_participating_art_collection.pdf
2023
April, Autumn Group Exhibition - 131 Gallery, Woodstock, CT. https://www.131agallery.com
September - Group Exhibition - Kevin Atkinson Retrospect - SMAC Galley, Woodstock, CT. https://www.smacgallery.com
October - Group Exhibition - I Never Promised You A Rose Garden - The Gallery - Cavalli Estate, Stellenbosch. https://cavalliestate.com/artboutique/gallery/
2024
April - Group Exhibition - I Never Promised You A Rose Garden part 2 - The Gallery - Cavalli Estate, Stellenbosch. https://cavalliestate.com/artboutique/gallery/
Figurative painter based in Cape Town.
Moving from film directing to full time painting practice in 2018, Daniel Levi's return solo show was called 'Please Accept My Resignation' held at Kalashnikov Gallery in Johannesburg in 2019.
Exerpt from review by South African arts journalist Robyn Sassen:
"It’s an intense and carefully honed debut for this young artist, which reveals both his painterly skill and his penchant for twisting sweetness to reveal something that’s difficult to get your head around, emotionally. Principles of Trust sees a figure masked and an interplay of worked up detail and gestural lines. The dotted eyelashes of the character represented here skirts between something evocatively violent and the old pretty traditions of easy schlocky art.
And as you look at each of these works, including Expansion, a painting of a dead bird, that give and take between life and death, light and dark, horror and sentimentality comes to the fore. It’s a modest yet explorative, internally rich yet outwardly almost hard-boiled debut, which demonstrates that Levi is someone to watch, as he matures."