Les Levine (1935, Dublin) is a pioneer of video and media art, living in New York City. Levine studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, London, before moving to Toronto in 1958, where he continued his studies at the New School of Art. His artistic practice has been explored through various means including painting, sculpture, installation, performance work, mail art and artists’ books. Moving to New York in the 1960s, he became a leading conceptual art figure, intersecting art and life in a variety of projects such as Levine’s Restaurant, 1969 and the conceptual museum he invented in 1970 called the Museum of Mott Art, Inc. He regards himself as a media sculptor, “mould(ing) media the way others would mould matter.” In the 1960s, Levine was one of the first artists to work with video and television. His work was to become a precursor to the new generation of experimental artists who were exploring the possibilities of the moving image including Dan Graham, Gary Hill and Bruce Nauman. Since the 1980s Levine has become particularly recognised for his billboard works in which he subverts the language of mass advertising to interrogate social and political problems. Solo exhibitions include the Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne; Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo; and the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver.