Renée Levin, a contemporary oil painter, is best known for her highly rendered large-scale paintings that transform organic forms and found objects into meditative explorations of beauty, presence, and impermanence. Rooted in a deep connection to nature, her practice is guided by observation, stillness, and the sensory richness of the natural world. Light, form, and negative space play a central role in her carefully curated compositions, cultivating a sense of presence where emotion, memory, and fleeting moments unfold. Levin is drawn to objects that are marked by time and transformation, approaching beauty not as an ideal, but as something shaped by change. Her work reveals the subtle interplay between fragility and resilience found in both nature and human experience. Levin has developed a signature style that has gained attention worldwide. Her work has been placed in numerous private and corporate collections and has received notable features in publications including Vogue, Artnet, Hyperallergic, Observer and Veranda, among others.
Renée Levin
SELECTED SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 Nauti by Nature, SoHo House; Little Beach House Malibu, Malibu CA
2023 Tickled Pink: An Ocean Narrative, Ella Walton Richardson Fine Art, Charleston SC
2022 In Black + White, The Foundation Room, Asbury Ocean Club, Asbury Park NJ
2022 Knotty Girls, Atelier Newport, Newport RI
2022 Riches from the Sea, Ella Walton Richardson Fine Art, Charleston SC
2021 In & Out: An Exploration of Shells, Beauregard Gallery, Rumson NJ
2021 Ebb & Flow: Coastal Rhythms in Black and White, Ella Walton Richardson Fine Art, Charleston SC
2020 Bivalves, Heirloom Kitchen, Old Bridge NJ
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Open Ended, The White Room Gallery, East Hampton NY
2026 Intro, Hidell Brooks Gallery,Charlotte NC
2026 Landscape & Power, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara + Wienholt Projects, Culver City CA
2025 Magic Hour, Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park NJ
2025 Hamptons Designer Showhouse, Bridgehampton NY
2024 Fall Group Exhibition, Space Gallery St Barth, Gustavia, St Barth FWI
2024 Hello...My Name Is, Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park NJ
2024 Visual Vacation, Kelly-McKenna Gallery, Spring Lake NJ
2023 Ladies to the Front, Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park NJ
2022 Localish, Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park NJ
2021 Oceana, Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park NJ
SELECTED PROJECTS AND COLLECTIONS
Hamptons Designer Showhouse, Bridgehampton NY
White Elephant Hotel, Nantucket MA
Duryea’s, Montauk, NY
Trama’s Trattoria Long Branch NJ
Sea Hear Now Music Festival NJ
RESIDENCY
2026 Malibu Beach Inn, Malibu CA
2025 Bell Works, Holmdel NJ
2023 White Elephant Nantucket, Nantucket MA
Commission of 21 works
PRESS
2026 C-Heads Magazine
2026 Artnet
2026 Culturalee
2026 Observer Magazine
2026 Dolce Magazine
2026 Whitehot Magazine
2026 Modern Luxury
2026 Hyperallergic
2026 Glimpse Magazine
2026 Fault Magazine
2025 Hamptons Cottages & Gardens
2025 Ocean Home
2023 Goodspeed
2023 Barron’s
2023 Veranda
2022 Hotel Designs
2021 Charleston Style & Design
2021 Vogue, Digital
2021 Vogue, Print