About
Anne Marie Purkey Levine is an accomplished arts professional with over two decades of international experience in curating, managing, and producing contemporary art exhibitions and related events for cultural institutions and independently. Her career spans prestigious institutions across the United States, Latin America, and Europe, where she learned to create engaging outreach programs that effectively communicate artistic value to broad audiences.
Anne Marie's institutional consulting portfolio includes premiere organizations such as the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Colby College Museum of Art and the Maine Arts Commission. Before establishing her art consulting practice in 2016, Anne Marie was a public art project manager for the San Francisco Arts Commission, where she helped manage the city's collection of more than 4,000 public artworks. Her earlier prior employment experience also extends to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She has worked on projects with renowned contemporary artists including Nick Cave, Mark Bradford, Richard Serra, Jasper Johns, and Yayoi Kusama.
While based in La Paz, Bolivia, Anne Marie organized and curated temporary exhibitions by local artists from her home, where her work garnered recognition in the New York Observer. In Basel, Switzerland, she has served as Deputy Director for VITRINE, a contemporary art gallery showcasing emerging artists globally. She is currently focussed on developing innovative art programs with an interdisciplinary approach.
Anne Marie remains steadfastly committed to fostering diversity in the art world and creating meaningful experiences that resonate across cultures while pushing the boundaries of contemporary art. She holds a Master of Arts in Humanities from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Scripps College in Claremont, California.