Sonia Levy is an artist and research-led filmmaker with a diasporic Berber-Polish background. Her work combines site-specific inquiries and interdisciplinary collaborations to examine how Western expansionist and extractive logics reshape hydrosocial worlds.
She has exhibited and screened her work at institutions including Tate Modern, ICA London, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Villa Arson, ZKM, Ocean Space, Kunsthal Aarhus, CCA Radius, MarinMOCA, Goldsmiths University, Nottingham Contemporary. Her research has been published by the MIT Press and recently presented at the University of Chicago, Paris, the Glasgow School of Art, the University of Exeter, London Metropolitan University, TU Delft, NYU Gallatin, and the University of California, Santa Cruz. Levy is an Associate Lecturer at the Royal College of Art, School of Architecture, convenor of How Like a Reef, and a Steering Committee member for the UN Ocean Decade programme on Connecting People and the Ocean.
1: Installation view of Sonia Levy: We Marry You O Sea as a Sign of True and Perpetual Dominion, 2023
2: Installation view of For the Love of Corals: An Ecology of Perhaps, 2020
3: Installation view of Sonia Levy: We Marry You O Sea as a Sign of True and Perpetual Dominion, 2023
4: We Marry You O Sea as a Sign of True and Perpetual Dominion, 2023, video still
5: Sonia Levy at work
