Anne Willieme is a visual artist and cultural practitioner, whose work navigates the intersections of art and sensory perception. Through painting, choreographies, interactive performances and installations, her pieces investigates the embodied experience of our senses.

Born in New York City, Willieme grew up in Europe in a bi-cultural English/French home, and currently divides her time between Washington DC and New York City. She received her MFA from The Georges Washington University in Washington DC. and 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, supporting personal and collective ecologies.

The itinerary as a locus of perceptual transformation is also central to her work. Through structured attention, movement and interactivity, her approach forms a “travel” dramaturgy, where visual, tactile, and participatory elements converge into shared experiential fields.

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 Grossman School of Medicine, which found decisive positive metrics for the participants, who took her trainings.