UPCOMING COFFEE TALK

Artist Walkthrough with Morgan Levy

Morgan Levy

Join us on January 24th from 1:00PM – 3:00 PM for an intimate artist led through of 2025 Mid-Career Artist Initiative Recipient, Morgan Levy’s, solo exhibition Spark of a Nail and hear behind the scene details about the making of her project.

Throughout her work, Levy takes an interest in photography’s generative potential, its capacity to probe and visualize what is often hidden or ignored, frequently turning her lens towards environments or landscapes in flux or transition. For Spark of a Nail, Levy collaborated with tradespeople in both apprenticeship programs and professional settings, providing a forum for conversation and demonstration of expertise. The resulting images enact a form of world-making, where acts of labor and gestures of rest unfold within physical and material spaces that women and non-binary people build and transform of their own volition.

ABOUT MORGAN LEVY

Morgan Levy is a photo-based artist and educator originally from Philadelphia, PA. She is a recipient of the 2025 V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography and was a Barbara Deming Memorial Foundation and a Puffin Foundation grantee in 2024. In 2023 she was a finalist for the Aperture Portfolio Prize and participated in UnionDocs’ Research & Development lab.
Her work is currently on view at Large Glass gallery in London in the group exhibition Light Industry, was recently on view at Copeland Gallery in London as part of the 2025 V&A Parasol Foundation Prize, and was included in the group exhibition On Land and Place at the Vermont Center for Photography. In 2024, her work was shown as a part of group exhibitions at the Throughline Collective in Houston, TX and Gallery Kannski in Reykjavik, Iceland. Previous group exhibitions include the Print Center, Philadelphia, PA (2021), Archive/Project Space, Pittsfield, MA (2021), and Society for Photographic Education, Philadelphia, PA (2018).
Her photographs have been published in contemporary art journals including Artforum, 1000 Words Magazine, Valentine Editions, and Capricious Magazine. Her work has also been published in numerous publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Time, and The New Republic.
Levy received her MFA in Photography from the Yale School of Art in 2020 and a BFA from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in 2007. She is currently a part-time faculty member in the Photography Department at Parsons School of Design in New York, NY. She lives with her partner Håkan, their cat, and their child in Brooklyn, NY.