Levani (Levan Mindiashvili, b. Tbilisi, Georgia - ze, zir) is a transdisciplinary artist based in New York. Idea-driven and research-based, zir practice materializes as immersive installations, sculptures, neons, images, sound, collective dinners, and dance parties. Through Queer ecology, neuroscience, microbiology, cosmology, and spiritual practices, Levani attends to questions of identity & world-building, imagining shifts from binary taxonomies to radical transformations and planetary justice. 

Levani graduated with an MFA from Buenos Aires National University of Arts (2010) and a BFA from Tbilisi State Academy of Arts (2003). Ze had exhibited extensively at the institutions and venues at The National Museum of Georgia, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Socrates Sculpture Park, National Art Museum of China, EFA Project Space, BRIC Biennial, Tartu Art Museum, Yerevan Folk Arts Museum, Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, Artists Alliance Inc., Kunsthalle Tbilisi, Marisa Newman Projects, NARS Foundation, Silk Museum, Fridman Gallery, and more. 

Levani is a recipient of the Artists Alliance Inc. LES studio residency program; Socrates Sculpture Park Fellowship; Peter S Reed Foundation Grant; NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program fellowship; Creative Time X Summit Grant; AIM Fellowship of the Bronx Museum of the Arts; NARS Foundation Studio Residency and the National Endowments for the Arts. Zir work has been reviewed in publications such as Frieze, Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, HYPERALLERGIC, The Art Newspaper, BOMB magazine, ART PAPERS, ArtAsia Pacific, PIN-UP Magazine, Huffington Post, OSMOS, and more. 

Levani’s work is in public collections of The Georgian National Museum, The National Art Museum of China, Beijing, and the Silk Museum, Tbilisi.