Nina Levitt
{{Short description|Canadian artist and educator}}
Nina Levitt is an artist who works primarily in the area of photography, installation, and video.{{Cite web|url=https://www.yorku.ca/nlevitt/html/about/index.htm|title=Nina Levitt, Nina Levitt, ARTWORK|website=www.yorku.ca|access-date=2019-03-23}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.ninalevitt.com/about/|title=ABOUT|website=Nina Levitt|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-23}} Levitt is also an associate professor in the Department of Visual Art and Art History at York University.
Biography
Levitt has shown her work extensively in Canada, and also in the United States, and the United Kingdom. Her work focuses on the experiences of women and frequently uses techniques which involve the reuse and manipulation of existing images, and video.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thestar.com/news/2008/11/09/the_secret_life_of_women_spies.html|title=The secret life of women spies {{!}} The Star|website=thestar.com|date=9 November 2008 |language=en|access-date=2019-03-23}} Levitt's work has been extensively reviewed in publications such as: Canadian Art,{{Cite web|url=https://canadianart.ca/features/nina-levitt-2/|title=Nina Levitt: Red Herrings and Real Herstories|website=Canadian Art|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-23}} the Toronto Star, and The Globe and Mail.{{Cite news|url=http://www.ninalevitt.com.customers.tigertech.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/100yrshealing.pdf|title=One hundred years of healing|last=Mackrael|first=Kim|date=June 9, 2011|work=The Globe and Mail|access-date=March 23, 2019}} Levitt has received commissions from the Gladstone Hotel, and Women's College Hospital.
Levitt also works in through research and received a Research Creation grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council. This work was focused on the story of British female spies. This work culminated in two exhibitions at the Koffler Gallery and Robert McLaughlin Gallery.