Christian Levett

Christian Levett is a former British investment fund manager who founded FAMM (Female Artists of the Mougins Museum), the first museum in the world outside of the USA entirely dedicated to women artists. Opened in 2024, FAMM reflects his long-standing commitment to addressing gender imbalance in art history.

Levett began collecting at age seven with medals and coins. After a successful career in finance, he deepened his passion for art while living in Paris, gradually shifting from antiquities to modern and contemporary works, with a particular focus on women artists. Today, his collection comprises nearly 2,000 artworks, including over 700 by women artists, among them 168 works by Abstract Expressionists such as Joan Mitchell, Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler and Elaine de Kooning.

His Florentine palazzo, hung exclusively with works by women artists and open by appointment since 2021, welcomes collectors, curators and academic groups. Works from the collection are regularly loaned to international institutions, and Levett has made more than 1,500 loans to exhibitions worldwide, including to Tate Modern, the Serpentine Galleries and Schirn Kunsthalle. In 2024, he opened FAMM in Mougins, transforming his former museum following the sale of a significant part of his antiquities collection in 2023 to focus on women artists.

A committed philanthropist, he has supported exhibitions at institutions including the British Museum, the Met, the Royal Academy, the Tate and Palazzo Strozzi, as well as archaeological digs and restoration projects. He serves on the boards of the Ashmolean Museum, the Met and Palazzo Strozzi, and is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. He also supports initiatives such as the CURA Art Residency and the FAMM Women’s Prize, launched in partnership with the Norval Foundation and the Sovereign Art Foundation. Through FAMM, his publishing initiatives and programmes such as the FAMM Women’s Prize, he continues to champion the visibility and legacy of women in art.