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Gosha Levochkin (b.1986) is a Russian American painter, best known for his larger scale acrylic works in the tradition of ligne claire. To this day Levochkin practices, teaches and resides in New York City. As a child, he abruptly moved to Hollywood from Moscow, just one year after the Collapse of the Soviet Union. Being a child of immigration, he learned very early on about the importance of adaptation as a cultural survival skill. The embodiment of this skill has been a coherent and prevalent theme throughout his life’s work to this point. Gosha dropped out of high school to pursue art and work at a local art supply store called Blue Rooster in Los Angeles California. While there, he was able to converse with and gain insight from many of LA’s most notable artists. Through this, he immersed himself into obsessively learning every masters tool and technique behind acrylic painting, watercolor painting, and drawing. His intuitive knack for developing unique characters, a dynamic use of space, and the keen ability to tell a story in his paintings, quickly brought him notoriety and gallery attention within the contemporary Los Angeles art world. Through a decade plus of building his career in LA, Levochkin held solo exhibitions and took part in group shows in many of the city’s most prevalent galleries. During this time he worked closely alongside with artists like Rob Sato, Maxwell Mcmaster, Devin Liston, and assisted for Benjamin Jones. In 2015 Gosha moved to New York City. Since there, he has continued his daily studio practice in Brooklyn New York. He also founded Dirty Hands Workshop in Lower East Side Manhattan, where he offers an art education unavailable in traditional art school settings.

Levochkin’s un-identifiable characters both create and solve problems within the spatial environment of the canvas. Each piece can be interpreted as some kind of worldly event in which these characters, who naturally dismiss the bounds of cultural hegemony, must harmoniously connect to over come and adapt to the situation they are in. This connectivity creates a sculpturesque confluence of human like figures and objects, who together make up a forceful puzzle to solve the mayhem. Gosha’s use of space can be observed as both elemental and structural. Though it is geometrically premeditated, it is highly rooted in the substance of nature. One can get an overwhelming sense of mutualism and respect between all components that make a single Levochkin composition.

Gosha Levochkin

B. 1986, Moscow, Russian-American

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024

The Hole NYC

https://thehole.com/exhibitions/gosha-levochkin

https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/above-interview-with-gosha-levochkin/6322

O2023

ALLOUCHE BENIAS, Athens, Greece https://allouchebenias.com/exhibitions/opera-portal

PLOP Residency London, UK

2022

The Hole NYC O EXHIBITIONS

2021
Over the Influence, Los Angeles, CA,

Ramp gallery London, UK

Art Brussels, The Hole NYC

2020
Over the Influence, Hong Kong

2016
KP Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2015
Soze Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2013
CAVE gallery, Venice, CA, USA

2012
HOLDUP, Los Angeles, CA , USA

2010
CAVE gallery, Venice, CA, USA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS And FairsR

2024

TheMass , Shibuya , Tokyo

PLATO , NYC , USA

2023

Dallas Art Fair, Texas , Over The Influence

INTO THE VORTEX, THE PIT, Palm Springs CA

ZONA MACO, Mexico City Mexico, THE HOLE

ART SG Fair, with Gana , Singapore

2022

Gana Art, Seoul, Korea

KIAF Art Fair, Korea, Over The Influence LA

ENTER Art Fair, Copenhagen THE Hole NYC

Unsafe AT Any Speed Curated By Kenny Schachter NYC OUP EXHIBITIONS

2021
KIAF Art Fair, Seoul, Korea, Over the Influence LA The Armory, THE Hole NYC
Art Central Hong Kong, Over the Influence

2020
Fine Art Asia Art Fair, Over the Influence, Hong Kong Ramp gallery London, UK

2019
The Garage Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL KP Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2014
KP Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA New Image, Los Angeles, CA, USA Soze Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2013
Soze Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2012
Giant Robot, Los Angeles, CA, USA