Ivette Ramos Levy is a multidisciplinary artist based in Fort Worth, Texas. Her practice is deeply shaped by her experience of migration and by the sixteen years she spent navigating the U.S. immigration process. Born in Mexico, she entered that process determined to follow every rule required of her. What began as a legal process gradually shaped the way she understood waiting, language, compliance, and her own body. Those experiences continue to shape her artistic practice.

Her current body of work, The America I Was Allowed Into, examines the distance between legal recognition and the lived experience of belonging. It asks what changed in her after citizenship was granted, and what remained: the accent that arrives before she does, the habits of self-correction, and the awareness of being read before being known. The work considers what it means to become American on paper while still negotiating how that identity is received, interpreted, and lived.