Anne Lynne Willieme is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice navigates the intersections of art and sensory perception. Through painting, choreographies, interactive performances and installations, and video her work investigates the embodied experience of our senses.

Born in NYC, Willieme currently lives between Washington D.C. and New York City. She received her MFA from The Georges Washington University in Washington D.C. in 1992. She has shown her work in group and solo exhibitions in galleries and public spaces such as The Athenaeum, Alexandria, VA; HereArts, New York City, Silicon Gallery, New York City; Galerie l’Escale, Brussels; Change + Partner Contemporary Art, Rome; Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, Universita degli Studi di Roma Sapienza, Rome; Temple Gallery, Temple University, Rome; and Gallery AK, Frankfurt.

Willieme’s practice explores the translational spaces between the senses, opening pathways toward expanded forms of perception. Her Dance Synesthesia series for which she translates taste into dance exemplifies this process. Additionally, individual works often function as sensory triggers, inviting moments of heightened sensory awareness.

Interactivity is a central axis within her process. Her performance-installations operate as hybrid environments that merge the visual, tactile, and participatory into collective fields of experience. Her recently completed The Listening Project reflects this approach.

Willieme’s practice is also informed by her education design work developed in the art and medicine field. She has created courses for medical schools that uses art to heighten physicians’ sensory capacities. Such increased abilities serve to help doctors enhance patient care. Her seminars have been the subject of research studies by academic institutions such as Columbia University and NYU’s School of Medicine, which found decisive positive metrics for the participants, who took her classes. She is currently on the seminar faculty at New York University’s Grossman School of medicine, where she leads perceptual-art courses for medical students.