Daniel Levine was born in New York City in 1959. He earned a BFA in 1981 and an MFA in 1983 from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

In addition to exhibiting his paintings in Europe and the United States since 1984, in 1989 he curated Amerikarma, exhibiting John Currin, Steven Parrino, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Cady Noland, Jim Shaw, Al Ruppersberg, Raymond Pettibon and others. He also curated World View in 1985, exhibiting Jennifer Bolande, Richard Prince, Peter Nagy, Meyer Vaisman and others. He is currently organizing an exhibit tentatively titled, Another Log Cabin, Another Bird House, Another Ashtray.

He was the recipient of a Pollack-Krasner Foundation grant in 1989 and a New York Foundation for the Arts grant in 1989. His work is represented in the collection of the Panza Collection, The Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano, Switzerland, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo and private collections in Europe and the United States.

He lives in New York City.