Biography
Bonnie Levinson is a multi-and inter-disciplinary artist who works in mixed media, painting, printmaking, multi-image photography, and performance. She is intrigued by the intersection of all forms of the arts. Her new studio is at 1608 S Dixie Highway in West Palm Beach, Florida, in Studio 201. She recently completed three years as a resident artist at the Arts Warehouse in Delray Beach, Florida.
Her artwork is in many private collections, homes, and offices in Manhattan, East Hampton, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Asheville, North Carolina, Aspen, Nashville, Palm Beach, Delray Beach, Lake Worth, Florida, and Ocean City, Ft. Lee, and West Orange, New Jersey, and on the yacht, Serena, in Newport Rhode Island. She has been included in juried and group exhibitions throughout the country. Recently, she had a solo exhibition of 49 works in Roxbury Abbey in the Catskills of New York.
Levinson has worked in the arts in leadership positions in cultural institutions as a museum and arts educator, curator, deputy director, and vice president. She served as Deputy Director at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, in charge of External affairs, including marketing, development, communications, and visitor services. Her years in New York were enhanced by her long tenure at the New York Public Library as Vice president for Development. During the past ten years, she has returned to her passion for art making and a full-time arts practice.
Awarded the Boca Raton Innovation Campus (BRIC) 2023 Artist of the Year, in honor of her work featured at the entry of the main BRIC campus.
"Keys to Light" On view at the Cornell Art Museum "Nature's Palette: Art Inspired by the Earth" 2024-25
On View at Boca Imaging Studio awarded and organized by Women in the Visual Arts 2024
“Coffee and Conversations” held at the BRiC. Bonnie created this series where she invited collectors, designers, opinion makers, leaders, and others for an open conversation on art related topics.
Bonnie Levinson Arts Management (BLAM!)
Her firm, BONNIE LEVINSON ARTS MANAGEMENT (BLAM!), worked with cultural organizations, creating public programming and consulting in development, marketing, and strategic planning. BLAM! also worked with individuals bringing art into their lives through active looking, aesthetic education, and the joy of collecting.
She acted as the curatorial and cultural consultant for the visual arts at Federal Hall National Memorial in New York City, part of the National Parks of New York Harbor Conservancy. In this capacity, she curated large-scale art installations and exhibitions that illustrate how debate defends democracy.
In addition, Levinson directed and co-curated an arts education and artist residency program, commissioning artists to create public art for the campus at the Making Waves Academy, a charter school in Richmond, California.
She earned a B.A. cum laude from Kenyon College and a Master of Arts in Teaching Museum Education from George Washington University. Upon graduation from Kenyon, Levinson received a Thomas J. Watson Foundation Fellowship, an independent year abroad studying pottery as an expressive form reflecting national character. That year prepared her for her career in museums. During her graduate studies, she received an NEA travel grant for photography documenting the eight northern Pueblo Indians for the Festival of American Folklife for the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.
She is a founding board member of the Oxbow School in Napa, California, and served on the boards of the San Francisco Art Institute, the Kenyon Review, and the Gund Gallery of Kenyon College, as well as, Arttable, Inc., The Hudson River Museum of Westchester, National Society of Fundraising Executives, and the Mamaroneck Council for the Arts.
Mel Ziegler's Installation "A Living Thing: Flag Exchange" in the rotunda of Federal Hall National Memorial, Summer 2017 https://federalhall.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/events-2017-flag-exchange-essay2.pdf
Eureka, a 17th century Dutch Canal House installed in the rotunda of Federal Hall, artist Brian Tolle Summer 2018 hall/https://www.nps.gov/articles/eureka-sculpture.htm
Beautiful mosaic designed and executed by Rigo for the Making Waves Academy resulting from work with the students.
"Multiple Visions" at the BRIC exhibition curated by Bonnie and featuring Resident Artists at the Arts Warehouse. 2024-25