Bonnie currently works out of Studio 201 at 1608 S Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach, FL. She furthered her art making studies at the San Francisco Art Institute, Anderson Ranch Art Center, City College of San Francisco, Colorado Mountain College and the Center for Fine Art Photography. She is a member of Arttable, Women in the Visual Arts (WITVA) and the Palm Beach Watercolor/Media Society.
Exhibitions & Installations
2024
Nouveau -The November Show at Studio 1608 (November 30- January 2025) Boundless, Florida’s Creative Resilience Exhibition (November 1-30) Palm Beach Art Antique & Design Showroom Arts Warehouse- Resident Artist Exhibition, Our Walls Talk ( November 1, 2024- January 2025 Nature’s Palette, Art Inspired by the Earth- Juried group exhibition, Cornell Museum of Art “Keys to Light” (September 2024 - February 2025)
Just A Taste Gallery - Just A Taste-Solo exhibition of 12 works (April - September)
Boca Raton Innovation Campus - Art From the Soul - Palm Beach Watercolor/Media Society (April-October)
Boca Raton Innovation Campus - Best of the Blues - WITVA (April - October)
Hatch 1121 - Lake Worth Beach - Movers & Shakers: The Art of Cultural Workers, “Bridge to Sardinia”, “The Emergence of an Idea”, “Sea Creatures” (March)
West Boca Raton Imaging Studio – Spotlight - Women in the Visual Arts - installation of 8 works (February-June)
Boca Raton Innovation Campus - Multiple Visions - Exhibited and Curated exhibition of 12 Resident Artists from Arts Warehouse (February-August)
Artist Space Gallery, BLUE, Online Exhibition, “Fragmented Sea”, “On the Precipice”, “The Empty Pool” (January 2024)
2023
The Arts Warehouse - Resident Artist Exhibition (December 2023 - January 2024)
ART ON BRIC WALLS - Artist of the Year Award 2023 - Painting Boca Raton Innovation Campus - And Then There Was Art, Juried Exhibition, Palm Beach Watercolor/Media Society (November - April)
Artist Space Gallery, Abstract Art, Online Exhibition, “Home is Where the Hearth is” and “Into the Atmosphere” (October)
Judi & Allan Schulman Museum Gallery, JCC Boca Raton-Call Me Creative, Women in the Visual Arts (October 23 - December 12)
Liberal Arts at Roxbury Abbey, Metanoia, Solo Exhibition Roxbury, NY (July 27 - August 6)
Boca Raton Innovation Campus - A Painting is Worth a Thousand Words, Palm Beach Watercolor/Media Society (April 20 - October 25)
Light Space Time - 14th Annual Abstracts-Special Merit “On the Precipice” (April 1-30)
Southern California Open Regional Invitational Exhibition, San Fernando Valley Arts & Cultural Center, In the Abstract, “At the Preserve”, “Mapping Adventure”, “A Change of Pace”, “On the Precipice” (March 1-31)
Artist Space Gallery, Botanicals, Art Exhibition, Online, four pieces accepted (Feb. 1-28)
Sugar Sand Park, For the Love of Art Juried Exhibition, Palm Beach Watercolor/ Media Society, Boca Raton, FL (Feb. 1-28)
Parkland Library, Mystery of Art” Juried Exhibition, Honorable Mention, Palm Beach Watercolor/Media Society, Parkland FL (Jan. 2-31)
2022
The Arts Warehouse, In Pieces, Resident Artist Exhibition, Delray Beach, FL (Dec.2-Dec. 25)
The Arts Warehouse, Waves, Juried Exhibition, Delray Beach, FL (Sept. 2-October 29)
2021
Bankhead Theater Gallery, Composing the Future, NCWCA Juried Exhibition, Livermore, CA
Artspan SF, Juried Exhibition and Benefit Auction, San Francisco, CA
Las Laguna Art Gallery, Women in Art , Online Exhibition, Laguna, CA
ArtRoom Gallery, Colors, Juried Online Exhibition, Honorable Mention
PhotoPlace Gallery, Botanical, Juried Exhibition and Catalog, Middlebury, VT
RES IPSA Installation, Malibu, CA
ARC Gallery & Studios, SPARCX, 10th Anniversary Celebration & Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
2020
PhotoPlace Gallery, Portals: Windows, Mirrors & Doors, Juried Exhibition and Catalog, Middlebury, VT
Arc Gallery & Studio, Arc Studio Artists Group exhibition, San Francisco, CA
ARTSPAN Open Studio Virtual
Abrams Claghorn Gallery, The Ground Upon Which We Stand, California Women’s Caucus for Art Juried Art Exhibition and Publication, Albany, CA
PhotoPlace Gallery, The Poetry of the Ordinary, Juried Exhibition and Catalog, Middlebury, VT
2019
Arc Open Studios, Artspan SF 2019, San Francisco, CA
Artspan SF, Juried Exhibition and Benefit Auction, San Francisco, CA
Center for Fine Art Photography, The Life of Water, Juried Exhibition, Honorable Mention, Fort Collins, CO
Arc Gallery & Studio, Arc Studio Artists Group Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
PhotoPlace Gallery, Water 2019, Juried Exhibition and Catalog , Middlebury, VT
Anderson Ranch Art Auction, Curator’s Choice, Juried Exhibition, Snowmass, CO
2018
Arc Gallery & Studio, SF, Diptych, Arc Studio Artists Group Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
Artspan SF, Juried Exhibition and Benefit Auction, San Francisco, CA
Blue Streak Gallery, Mixed Media, curated exhibition, Wilmington, DE
Anderson Ranch Art Auction, Curator’s Choice, Juried Exhibition, Snowmass, Colorado, CO
Healdsburg Center for the Arts, Purely Abstract, Vision in Line, Form and Color, Healdsburg, CA
Center for Fine Art Photography, Water, Juried Exhibition, Fort Collins. CO
Artspan and Zephyr Real Estate, Strokes of Genius, featured in 2018 Calendar collaboration of art and home
2017
Arc Gallery & Studio, Resistance, Arc Studio Artists Group Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
Artspan SF, Juried Exhibition and Benefit Auction, San Francisco, CA
Marin Society of Artists, Images 2017, Juried Exhibition of Photography San Rafael, CA
2016
McLoughlin Gallery, H2O Group exhibition, San Francisco, CA
Artspan SF, Juried Exhibition and Benefit Auction, San Francisco, CA
Residencies & Workshops
Iguazu Falls, Artist Immersion Residency at Awasi -September 2024
Resident Artist at Arts Warehouse, Delray Beach, FL – 2021 - present
La Napoule Foundation Residency, La Napoule, France - Summer 2019
Anderson Ranch Art Center, CO- Workshops-photography, mixed media, painting with master teachers 2013-2019
San Francisco Art Institute Workshops 2013-2020 plus private mentorship with professor Jeremy Morgan
Colorado Mountain College Workshop 2014
Kenyon College Writers Residency - Summer 2012
Whoops, I Forgot to Have Kids/ You Complete the Picture -
Original one-woman show written and performed in San Francisco, New York, and Aspen:
The Lark Play Development Center, NY 2010, 2012, 2015
Tides Theatre, SF 2013, 2014
Abington Theatre Company, NY 2013
ODC Theater, SF 2007
Professional Work Experience
BLAM! Bonnie Levinson Arts Management
January 1999-present
National Parks of New York Harbor Conservancy at Federal Hall- Curator for the Visual Arts in New York City developing exhibition and arts-inspired public art programming engaging contemporary artists in interpreting themes relating to democracy. Resulting in exhibition of public art works at Federal Hall Memorial in New York City. Creative Consultant and Executive Producer for the National Parks of New York Harbor Conservancy creating a Harbor Symphony celebrating New York Harbor.
Making Waves Academy- Curator for Arts Education program at the charter school in Richmond California developing an arts education and artist residency program resulting in permanent public art for the campus.
The Magnes Museum, The Mexican Museum, The San Francisco Film Society, The Oxbow School, The Museum of Modern Art- Strategic consulting and planning with Executive Directors and the Boards of the Museums and arts organizations.
Penn Station Arts Foundation- Develop public art plan and strategy for the Pennsylvania Station in New York.
Art Advisory services for private clients in aesthetic education, collecting and collection strategies in San Francisco and New York.
Represented the Estates of artists GH Rothe and Clifford Odets; facilitated exhibition of never before seen work of GH Rothe at the San Francisco Art Institute; Seven Paintings (Nov 9-Dec.12, 2015)
THE SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
Deputy Director, External Affairs; Acting Director of SFMOMA: 1997 -1999
THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
Vice President for Development; Manager of Corporate Relations and Special Campaigns: 1988 to 1997
THE HUDSON RIVER MUSEUM OF WESTCHESTER
Associate Director; Director of Development and Marketing; and Director of Education: 1981- 1987
THE DELAWARE ART MUSEUM
Assistant Curator of Education: 1977-1981
Awards, Grants & Fellowships
Museum Management Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust, UC Berkeley, July 1987
Smithsonian Institution, Travel Grant for photography for the Festival of American Folklife, Washington, DC, 1976
National Endowment for the Arts, Internship Stipend, 1975-1976
The Thomas J. Watson Foundation, National Fellowship Award. Post graduate independent study grant for travel abroad investigating the nature of pottery as an expressive form reflecting national character, 1973-1974