Photo by Katya Konioukhova.

Levana Katz is an artist based in Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang / Montréal, and holds a BFA in Painting and Drawing from Concordia University. She works across drawing, printmaking, sculpture and fibre arts within her installations.

Katz’s work has been shown in several galleries in Montréal, including Arprim, Ada X and the Fofa Gallery. She was awarded the Don Wright Scholarship (2023-2024) at St. Michael’s Printshop, relocating to St. John’s, Newfoundland. Upon return to Montréal she completed a residency at L’imprimerie (2025), awarded as the recipient of the Prix Albert Dumouchel. Her work has been supported by granting bodies such as the Canada Council for the Arts, and the City of St. John’s. Alongside her artistic practice, Katz works as an art educator at the Visual Arts Centre in Westmount, and recently published an artist book supported by the Museum of Jewish Montreal.

Driven by an interest in material processes, I work across drawing, printmaking, and fibre arts to create multimedia sculptures and installations. I explore techniques that bind elements from different sources, focusing on repetition and sequence when connecting materials. I am interested in how art and ritual practices create rhythm, engage the body, and shape time. I often draw on my Jewish cultural traditions to delve into my personal archive, exploring specific ritual objects and family histories. 

Lines, drawing and impressionability are at the centre of my practice. I work with  materials which record my interactions with them, reflecting the specific moments in which they were created; rolls of paper, stitched lines, hanging threads, handwritten text, embossed concrete, plaster and wax. I ground these materials in contemplative and cyclical gestures, considering how memories can be transformed into tactile objects and images. Through these processes, I examine the contrasts that collapse in everyday life, between the divine and mundane, the precious and brutal, and the public and private.