Cary Levine

Cary Levine is Professor of Contemporary Art History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and was a recipient of a year-long J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. His first book, "Pay for Your Pleasures: Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Raymond Pettibon" (University of Chicago Press, 2013) examines the work of these artists in terms of post-60s politics, popular culture, mass media, and strategies of the grotesque. His second book, "The Future is Present: Art, Technology, and the Work of Mobile Image" (MIT Press, 2024, co-authored with Philip Glahn) focuses on a visionary telecommunications art collective and the intersections of art, politics, and technology. He was a 2020 recipient of the Art Journal Award and a 2014 recipient of the Hettleman Prize for Scholarly Achievement at UNC. He has lectured nationally and internationally, has written for various magazines and museum catalogues, and previously worked at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.