Hannah Levy

Hannah Levy, born 1991, is an American sculptor known for her visceral work that combines organic and industrial forms into uncanny visages. She works mainly in steel and silicone, and focuses on the relationship of these materials to flesh and object.

Levy is represented by the Casey Kaplan gallery in New York City, where she lives and works. Her work was the subject of the solo exhibition Surplus Tension at the Arts Club of Chicago. Her piece "Retainer" was commissioned for the High Line in New York City in 2019, completed in 2020, and exhibited 2021–2022. Levy's work was included in the 2022 Venice Biennale.

Levy’s art concerns the human figure and how our bodies interact with the world around us. She takes everyday objects like medical equipment, vegetables, and furniture and defamiliarizes them using material and scale. Her work is quasi-sexual, meant to provoke an instinctual and at times humorous response. Her combination of sleek steel with fleshy, stretched silicone evokes Surrealist themes of the confusion between body and object. Her work also addresses the socio-political conflict between what structures appear to be and what they actually are.