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Suzanne Levesque
Born1983 (age 41–42)
Luxembourg
NationalityUS-American
Known forPainting
Websitesuzanne-levesque.com

Suzanne Levesque (born 1983) is an American painter whose work explores themes of time, consciousness and perception. She is known for emotionally charged imagery and tactile surfaces. She lives and works between Berlin, Vienna, and New York City.

Work

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Levesque's work has been shown alongside Louise Bourgeois, Cecily Brown, Kiki Smith, Lisa Yuskavage and Lucien Freud [1] as well as a three person show in at Museum Pyrmont in Germany with the artist duo Christo and Jeanne Claude for which she created a large scale site-specific outdoor water installation.

In the London based documentary series "Seven Points", Suzanne Levesque reflects on her process; “What would I make if I were to immediately destroy it after making it?” [2]

In July 2025 Levesque's paintings were published in County Highway (magazine) with the essay "The View Master" by Will Self. [3]

Early Life and Education

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Suzanne Levesque was born in Luxembourg and raised between the US and Germany. She began drawing at a young age, naming Sally Mann as having a profound influence on her early artistic development[4] . From 2006 to 2012, she attended the Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (HAW Hamburg), earning a diploma in painting with distinction under Israli artist Nir Alon. During her studies, she extensively painted patients and procedures at the Amalie Sieveking clinic in Hamburg. From 2009 to 2010, Levesque studied under Mimi Gross at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore on a DAAD scholarship.[5]

Selected Solo Exhibitions

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  • 2022 – Parallel Vienna, Galerie Schloss Parz, Semmelweis Frauen-Klinik, Vienna, Austria[6]
  • 2020 – Eigengrau, Galerie Pfundt, Berlin, Germany
  • 2018 – Tingle, Museum Macura, Belgrade, Serbia
  • 2018 – Snug, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, USA
  • 2017 – Müde bin ich, Galerie Schloss Parz, Austria[7]
  • 2016 – Inzwischen, Kulturfabrik Hangar 21, Detmold, Germany[8]
  • 2014 – Atta Girl!, Fabrik der Künste, Hamburg, Germany[9]
  • 2014 – Jahresgabe Alfred Lichtwark Gesellschaft e.V.
  • 2013 – Lullabies, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, Germany[10]

Selected Group and Two-person Exhibitions

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  • 2025 – Haut, Haare, Holz (with Laura Eckert and Isa Stein), Galerie Schloss Parz, Austria[11]
  • 2024 – Broad Picnic, Europa, New York, New York[12]
  • 2024 – Kunstsalon, Schloss Museum Linz, Austria
  • 2023 – Seek and Hide Christo & Jeanne-Claude and Suzanne Levesque, Museum Pyrmont in the Schloss Pyrmont, Germany[13]
  • 2022 – Günter Brus, Suzanne Levesque, Peter Niedertscheider, Galerie Schloss Parz, Austria[14]
  • 2022 - Roll To Tie (with Claudia Vitari), curated by Veronika Hykova, Temporary Art Space, Berlin [15]
  • 2018 – Bernhard Heiliger + Suzanne Levesque, Galerie Pfundt, Berlin, Germany

Critical Reception

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Levesque has received positive reviews for her psychologically evocative visual language. In a 2025 Noah Becker Whitehot Magazine review of Haut, Haare, Holz, the New Yorker art critic David Jager described her paintings as "murky reservoirs where fragments of memory and figuration float up from the depths and into view." He emphasized her use of "sooty palettes and stitched material as an effective metaphor for the fragility of the human psyche."[16]

Her work was also highlighted in KID-IN Magazine in which Larissa Zaharuk views her paintings as "unorthodox conceptualizations of childhood"

Selected Awards and Residencies

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Collections

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Bibliography

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  • Suzanne Levesque: Seek and Hide, Museumsverein im Schloss Pyrmont e.V., 2024. ISBN 978-3-00-077254-2
  • Suzanne Levesque: Lullaby, Dr. R. Busch, R. Mattheis, Sautter + Lackmann, Hamburg ISBN 978-3-88920-068-6
  • Aufatmen, Landesverband Hamburger Galerien e.V. ISBN 978-3-00-073820-3.
  • Dents: Iconographies du Contemporain Giacomo Rambaldi, Gli Ori, Pistoia ISBN 978-88-7336870-0
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References

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  1. ^ "Roar!!!". 16 March 2023.
  2. ^ ""What would I make if I immediately destroyed it afterwards?" Suzanne Levesque // Seven Corners". YouTube. 26 February 2024.
  3. ^ https://www.countyhighway.com/ [bare URL]
  4. ^ "I'm Younger Than That Now".
  5. ^ "Suzanne Levesque". suzannelevesque.allyou.net.
  6. ^ "Parallel 2022 mit Suzanne Levesque". September 5, 2022.
  7. ^ "PARZ ONE: SUZANNE LEVESQUE | Müde bin ich". August 25, 2017.
  8. ^ "Ensemble Horizonte". www.ensemble-horizonte.de.
  9. ^ https://www.fabrikderkuenste.de/exhibition/zwischenwelten-atta-girl-jens-goethel [bare URL]
  10. ^ Mediengruppe, FUNKE (February 22, 2013). "Malerin Suzanne G'sell Lévesque zeigt ihre Werke im Harburger Bahnhof". www.abendblatt.de.
  11. ^ "Haut, Haare, Holz at Galerie Schloss Parz". Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art.
  12. ^ "EUROPA". www.europa.nyc.
  13. ^ "Museum im Schloss Bad Pyrmont | Vergangene Ausstellungen". www.museumpyrmont.de.
  14. ^ "Galerie Schloss Parz: Ausstellungseröffnung mit Suzanne Levesque und Peter Niedertscheider - Grieskirchen & Eferding". MeinBezirk.at. May 20, 2022.
  15. ^ https://artspaceberlin.com/unlock-the-berlin-artists-innovative-look-at-the-lost-human-experience/?fbclid=PAQ0xDSwMkFIRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABp0VEL1RKzRjXjUSW0dd27DC1Za_nr-JRV5V9K3njnhvifsjySYEi-YDs4htY_aem_33GuAgCfSb2gOOmP5OwyXw/ [bare URL]
  16. ^ "Haut, Haare, Holz at Galerie Schloss Parz". Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art.
  17. ^ ""suzanne-levesque.com"". suzanne-levesque.com.
  18. ^ https://www.grand-elysee.com/fileadmin/Dokumente/Galerie/GE_22_287_Elysee_Preis_fuer_Malerei_Preistraeger.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  19. ^ "Rückblick - Künstler zu Gast in Harburg e.V." January 8, 2025.
  20. ^ "Suzanne Lévesque (3 digital object(s)) Archives / Film, Video and Sound". 25 November 2016.