Andrew Leventis

Andrew Leventis makes meticulously detailed oil paintings of contemporary vanitas, a motif popularized in early still life in which food, flowers, and other perishable objects represent the fleeting nature of life and the passing of time. Often his work is infused with iconography reflecting his queer identity.

Leventis received an MFA in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and an MA in Fine Art from Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Art in Painting from the American Academy of Art, Chicago.

He has exhibited internationally at museums and galleries, most recently at Zepster Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2025); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland (2024-2025); Novilla, Berlin (2023) the Mint Museum Uptown, Charlotte, NC (2022); and the Venice Arsenale, Italy (2021). Leventis’ work is represented by SOCO Gallery. He is an associate professor of painting at UNC Charlotte. In 2022, he helped establish a partnership with the local organization Goodyear Arts, through which UNC Charlotte art students are featured in an annual exhibition.

Other recent artistic activity in Charlotte includes:

“Nature Morte: Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still Life Tradition”, presented at UNC Charlotte, previously traveled to Sweden, Norway, Poland, London, co-curated by Michael Petry, Roberto Ekholm, Andrew Leventis, and Adam Justice, 2022

McColl Center Artist in Residence, September – December, 2024

60 Years: UNC Charlotte Alumni Exhibition, presented by Hodges Taylor, co-curated by Andrew Leventis and Lucy Graham-Fleishman, November 8 – December 16, 2024

“Forever Transient,” Group Exhibition presented at Central Piedmont Community College, co-curated by Andrew Leventis and Susan Jedrzejewski, 2024