Cara Levine

Education

2012 MFA summa cum laude, California College of the Arts
2007 BFA summa cum laude, University of Michigan School of Art and Design 

Bio and Affiliation

Cara Levine is an artist based in Los Angeles, CA, holding an MFA from California College of the Arts (2012). Her work has been exhibited globally in one-person, group exhibitions, and participatory events in venues such as the The Oregon Jewish Museum, Portland, OR, (2025-2026), The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco (2023), MOCA Geffen Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA (2020); Creative Time, New York, NY (2019); The Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK, (2019), Tenderloin Museum, San Francisco, CA (2017); Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel; Wattis Institute For Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA (2012); and Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan (2006). Levine has participated in numerous residencies including, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles, CA (2020), Santa Fe Art Institute (2017); The Arctic Circle, International Territory of Svalbard (2017); Sedona Arts Colony, Sedona, AZ (2016); SIM Residency, Reykjavík, Iceland (2015); Anderson Ranch, Aspen, CO (2014); and others. She was an inaugural recipient of the Cultural Leadership Fellowship at the Mandel Institute (2023-2025). Levine has also worked with the disability arts community since 2011 in roles at various progressive art studios including the ECF, Inglewood, CA and Creative Growth, Oakland, CA. She organized the first annual Self-Taught Artists Fair with Public Annex in Portland, OR in 2017. She is currently an Associate Adjunct Professor at Otis College of Art and Design and a Lucas Arts Fellow at Montalvo Arts Center (2024-2027) and a member of the Board of Directors at Creative Growth Art Center (Oakland, CA).