Aaron Levy

Levy is the Executive Director and Senior Curator of Slought, a Philadelphia-based non-profit organization, where for nearly two decades he has harnessed the power of university and community collaboration in developing shared programming and networks of solidarity. He has also curated extensively, including Into the Open (2008), the US representation at the Venice Biennale for Architecture, which traveled to the National Constitution Center; and the Perpetual Peace Project (2010) with the International Peace Institute and United Nations University, which traveled to the New Museum and other venues. He is also the editor of several publications including Cities Without Citizens (2002); Helene Cixous' Ex-cities (2007); John Cage's How to Get Started (2010); and On Listening as a Form of Care (forthcoming, 2020).

Levy has also worked to elevate stories and histories of the struggle for justice in Philadelphia and beyond, and to inscribe practices of mutual aid, community care, and health equity within the cultural and academic sectors. He is Director of the Health Ecologies Lab as well as the Social Justice and Arts Integration Initiative in the School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania, and Special Advisor for Health and Humanities Initiatives at Penn Medicine Academy, where he directs the Penn Medicine Listening Lab. Levy is also a Senior Lecturer in the Departments of English and the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught since 2002. A passionate advocate for project-based learning, his courses apply the humanities to such diverse fields as curatorial studies, social work, design, and health. Prior to Levy's life in the academy, he was a visual artist and poet.