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"I started working in collage when I was fourteen: covering cigar boxes with snippets of found images I thought the intended recipients might enjoy. 

I LOVED the tension that the juxtapositions created. 

In my twenties I studied painting, and modelled for my photographer friends in exchange for prints - prints which soon found their way into my paintings. I found the interplay of the paint and the photos electrifying. 

After years of combining my photos with paint, I started experimenting with Photoshop, layering images onto each composition long into the night, in a state of bliss. It seemed nothing short of magical...I was hooked.

I find that the way different images and different media call to each other - whether melting together, or each staunchly holding its ground - is one of the most fascinating and exciting aspects of my practice."

 

Born in Atlanta, Dunlevie lived in six different states by the time she was 12, and in Paraguay when she was 16. She has a B.A. in fine arts from Rice University and studied art history and film at the University of Paris, painting at California College of the Arts, and photography in Madrid. 

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She has received numerous awards and fellowships, including two

Arts Council Silicon Valley Artist Laureate Fellowships. Her work has been exhibited in the People's Republic of China at the Fujian Huaguang Photographic Art Museum, and at the Pingyao International Photography Festival, as well as in Moscow with the US Art in Embassies Program, at Toronto’s Gallery TPW, and in the United States at FotoFest International, San Francisco Camerawork, PhotoAlliance, the Southeast Museum of Photography, Washington DC’s Art Museum of the Americas, and the Institute of Contemporary Art San Jose.

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​Her work has been reviewed in Spain’s La Fotografia Actual, in Korea’s photo +, in Germany’s Profifoto, in San Francisco's Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts, in Visual Art Source, and in AestheticsToday.blogs.