Aaron Levy is the founding Executive Director of the Slought Foundation (sloughtfoundation.org) and is responsible for the organization's administration and strategic development. As a Senior Curator at the Foundation, he is respected for a collaborative approach and for discursive projects that topically intervene in contemporary debates around art, architecture, and critical theory.

As a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania, he leads the Seminar in Contemporary Culture; he also led the 2007-8 RBSL Bergman Foundation Seminar for the Department of the History of Art. His interdisciplinary courses explore critical theories about art and literature and provide students with curatorial experience. He is completing a doctorate in History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds.

His many symposia organized explore topics such as democracy and disappointment, surveillance and spectacularity, and the politics of display at institutions including La Maison Rouge, The Drawing Center, and The Cooper Union. He is currently organizing a symposium around Immanuel Kant's Perpetual Peace (1795) with the European Union National Institutes of Culture.

He has curated exhibitions internationally, including Into the Open, the official U.S. representation at La Biennale di Venezia (2008, labiennale.us) which explores America's rich history of architectural experimentation and the original ways architects today are working collaboratively to invigorate community activism and environmental policy. The exhibition traveled to Parsons The New School in New York and is currently on view at the National Constitution Center on Independence Mall in Philadelphia (both 2009). He also curated Osvaldo Romberg's Theaters of Transparency at the Neue Galerie Graz in Austria, which traveled to the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany (both 2009); Gary Hill's Art of Limina at Slought Foundation (2009); and Braco Dimitrijevic's The Casual Passer-By I Met at 3.01 pm on historic facades at the University of Pennsylvania (2008). His first exhibition, Cities Without Citizens (2002), juxtaposed historical materials from the Philadelphia-based Rosenbach Museum and Library with contemporary art and architecture to examine the cities and settlements of early America and how the nation's past connects with contemporary concerns about statelessness.

He has edited fifteen publications, including Braco Dimitrijevic: Tractatus Post Historicus (2009); Blood Orgies: Hermann Nitsch in America (2008); Helene Cixous' Ex-Cities (2007); Rrrevolutionnaire: Conversations in Theory (2006); and William Anastasi's Pataphysical Society (2005). Evasions of Power: On the Architecture of Adjustment is forthcoming (2009). He is also the editor of a series of DVD publications featuring work by Werner Herzog, Dennis Oppenheim, Vito Acconci, Alain Badiou, and Peter Weibel.

He has lectured widely at institutions including the Architectural Association, the inaugural Aspen Institute Cultural Diplomacy Forum, the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, the Graham Foundation, Goldsmith's College, the European Union Culture Commission at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, the American University of Paris, the Syracuse University School of Architecture and Humanities Center, Columbia University's School of Architecture, and Sciences-Po. As a critic, he has penned articles and interviews for Tank, Cabinet magazine, Rhizome.org (rhizome.org/editorial/1959), and build, among other publications.