Background
Dominique Astrid Lévy was born in June 1967, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Her father, André Lévy, a cotton merchant, left Egypt in 1958 after Gamal Abdel Nasser came to power.
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Lévy studied art history and politics at the University of Geneva and received a Bachelor in Political Science and an Master of Arts in Sociology of Artist
Career
She organized her first exhibition when she was 18. In 1987, she did her first internship for Christie"s in New 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. In 1999, headhunted by François Pinault, Lévy founded and was the international director of the private sales department at Christie"s in New 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 with Robert Mnuchin L&M Arts, which was based in New York and Los 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 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. In October 2014, Dominique Lévy expanded to London, opening a location at historic 22 Old Bond Street, steps from the Royal Academy of Arts in the city"s Mayfair district. 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.
In 2015, her galleries exposed Gerhard Richter"s color charts, miniatures of Alexander Calder, Gego"s work.
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.
