Arik Levy (b. 1963, Tel Aviv)

Lives and works in Saint-Paul de Vence and Paris, France

“Creation is an uncontrolled muscle,” says Arik Levy — a phrase that pulses at the core of a practice defined by intuition, material sensitivity, and the search for unseen
structures. Sculptor, artist, designer, and thinker, Levy’s work transcends conventional boundaries, engaging with space, movement, and the intimate geometries of perception.

 With a strong, recognizable visual signature renowned for his Rock series and large-scale public sculptures, Levy navigates multiple dimensions of making - from photography and video to scenography, installations, and functional forms. His artistic language is both raw and refined, where the organic collides with the engineered, and the invisible becomes form. Yet at the heart of his practice lies a persistent humanism: “The world is about people, not objects.”

Born in Israel, Levy moved to Europe in 1988 after participating in a group sculpture exhibition in Tel Aviv (1986). Following formative years in Geneva and Paris, his artistic vocabulary was profoundly shaped by a pivotal period in Japan, where he immersed himself in the culture of minimalism, philosophy and process. It was there that he began to craft a language of restraint and resonance, drawing inspiration from silence as much as from form.

During the 1990s, Levy collaborated with contemporary dance and opera companies, creating installation on stage that sculpted space through light, motion, and emotion. These experiences continue to inform his understanding of the spatial choreography between people, objects, and the environments they inhabit.

A profoundly dyslexic, Levy was gifted with a visual intelligence that became his primary mode of expression. Surfboards became his first canvases, and an early studio practice - part art lab, part sanctuary - laid the foundation for a lifelong investigation into
transformation and abstraction. He later studied at Art Center Europe in Switzerland, earning a BS with distinction in 1991.

Levy’s body of work explores the interplay between organic growth and a systemic order, emotional intuition and architectural clarity and contradiction. His sculptures - often monumental - embody tensions and
balances, fractures and alignments. They function as silent witnesses to the forces that shape both the natural world and the human condition.

In 2021, Levy inaugurated his private Sculpture Park in Saint-Paul de Vence, a living extension of his studio and a site for research, contemplation, and open-air exhibition. Set within a Mediterranean landscape, it is a place where form and nature coexist in a dynamic dialogue.

Levy’s works are included in major public and private collections, notably the Centre Pompidou in Paris, The Baker Museum in Florida, the V&A museum in London, DKM museum in Duisburg… He has exhibited widely throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas, private and permanent public installations can be found around the world. 

Arik Levy was awarded in 2009 the title Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the French Republic.