About

Anne Marie Purkey Levineis a matchmaker for contemporary artists, galleries and private clients. She is committed to working with those who desire meaningful connections, and who are interested in supporting emerging and under-represented artists.

Anne Marie has a proven track-record in art exhibition, collection, and special project management, with a focus in contemporary and public art. She empowers arts organisations and commercial and private clients to effectively manage their projects based on a deep understanding of contemporary artistic processes, materials and museum-standard best practices. Anne Marie brings projects to fruition with her adaptive working style, easygoing professionalism, and natural leadership. 

Anne Marie has over two decades of art collection and exhibition management experience, with a focus in contemporary and public art in an international setting. While living in Basel, Switzerland, she was Deputy Director for VITRINE, a contemporary art gallery highlighting the work of emerging artists from around the world, and Co-Director for SCULPTURE AT, a commissioning platform for contemporary public sculpture. Her institutional clients include the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Colby College Museum of Art, Maine Arts Commission, and TEMPOart Portland. Before launching her art consulting practice in 2016, she 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. She also has held management positions at 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 holds a Master of Arts in Humanities from the University of Chicago, and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Scripps College.

Anne Marie is dedicated to contemporary artists with art lovers and collectors interested in emerging and under-represented artists, and currently organises and curates temporary exhibitions in her home in La Paz, Bolivia. Her work in Bolivia has been written about in the New York Observer.