Bonnie Levinson Biography
Bonnie Levinson is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice encompasses mixed media, painting, printmaking, multi-image photography, and performance. Her work investigates the fluid boundaries between media, drawing on their intersections to evoke atmosphere, emotional resonance, and what exists beyond the visible.
Levinson maintains a dedicated studio at 1608 South Dixie Highway, Studio 201, in West Palm Beach, Florida, following a three-year artist residency at Arts Warehouse in Delray Beach.
Her work is included in private collections across the United States, with placements in New York, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Los Angeles, California; Asheville, North Carolina; Aspen, Colorado; Nashville, Tennessee; and throughout Florida, as well as aboard the yacht Serena in Newport. She has exhibited in juried and group exhibitions nationwide and recently presented a solo exhibition of 49 works at Roxbury Abbey in the Catskills of New York.
For more than three decades, Levinson held leadership roles in prominent cultural institutions as an arts educator, curator, museum executive, and arts administrator. She served as Deputy Director of External Affairs at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and, before that, was Vice President for Development at The New York Public Library. Ten years ago, she returned to her passion for artmaking, dedicating her professional life to a comprehensive studio practice.
Levinson earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Kenyon College and received a Thomas J. Watson Foundation Fellowship for post-graduate independent study and arts travel abroad, catalyzing her museum career and continued engagement with global arts communities. She later earned a Master of Arts in Teaching Museum Education from The George Washington University. Additional study at the San Francisco Art Institute, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, City College of San Francisco, and Colorado Mountain College has further shaped and informed her artistic development.
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