Laura Levine is a self-taught artist whose paintings are in the permanent collections of the Museum of International Folk Art, The House of Blues, and the Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Rome). Her work has been shown at La Luz de Jesus, Copro-Nason Gallery, Kunstmuseum Luzern (Switzerland), the Museum of American Illustration, the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Private collections include Michael Zilkha, Harry Shearer & Judith Owen, Nora Ephron, Lisa Bonet, Tom Freston/MTV Networks, Laurie David, and Cher.
Levine's award-winning illustrations have been commissioned by The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Blab! and The New York Times Magazine as well for numerous books and CD covers. She's created an animated television pilot for MTV and several critically acclaimed children's picture books. Levine's short subject and feature-length film documentaries have screened at over a dozen film festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival and the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Levine's iconic rock photography portraits have appeared in countless magazines, album covers and books, as well exhibitions and published collections of fine art photographs and have been exhibited at The Museum of the City of New York, Institute of Contemporary Art (London), Museo Colecciones ICO (Madrid), and are in the permanent collection of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. In 2009, her photographs will be exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum and the Portland Museum of Art.
In her spare time, Levine, who grew up in New York City's Chinatown and graduated from Harvard University, is the proprietress of Homer & Langley's Mystery Spot, an unusual antique/ oddities/ junk shop in the Catskill Mountains.