Mikhaël Levy was born in Paris, France in 1974. He held his first solo show in Paris in 1993 and was represented by Gallerie de L'Europe. In 2001, his work was shown at the Parisian fair "Jeunes et Grands Peintres d'Aujourd'hui." Followed a series of travels. In 2003, seeking subtropical light and a new bohemia he joined the nascent artists' community and the alternative gallery scene that had emerged in Miami's Wynwood district before it was dismantled by development in the mid-2010s. In 2020, under the pen name Scarr, he published at Plica Press books of drawings: Reading Freud will not Cure You, A Day in Kakistocracy, and an experimental graphic novel …and the Pursuit of Nothingness.