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Nate Lewis
natelewisart@gmail.com
Born in Beaver Falls, PA
Lives between New York City and Washington, DC
Education
2009, Virginia Commonwealth University, BSN , Richmond, VA
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2019 The Armory Show, solo, Fridman Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Expo Chicago, solo, Fridman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018: 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Special Projects, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Latent Tensions at Spring Break Art Show curated by Dustin Yellin
2017 Mosaic Project, Pennsylvania College of Art & Design,
Lancaster, PA
2017 Tensions in Tapestries, Morton Fine Art, Washington DC
2016 Cheryl Derricotte and Nate Lewis: Fragile Vessels, Loyola
University, Baltimore, MD
2016 Biological Tapestries 1st Movement, Morton Fine Art,
Washington DC
Group Exhibitions
2019 Dress Up, Speak Up: Regalia and Resistance, 21 C Museum, Cincinnati, Oh
2019 Men of Change, Smithsonian Institute Traveling Exhibition Services, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH
2019 Plumb Line: Charles White and the Contemporary, California African American Museum in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2019 William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum, Yale Center for British Art, Yale, New Haven
2018 Shifting Gaze: A Reconstruction Of The Black & Hispanic Body In Contemporary Art, Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL
2018 Strange Beach, Fridman Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Legacy Of The Cool: A Tribute To Barkely Hendricks, Bakalar & Paine Galleries, Mass College of Art & Design, Boston, MA
2017 Prizm Art Fair, Miami, Fl
2017 Art on the Vine, Marthas Vineyard, MA
2017 Terrestrial Resonance, Art in Flux, Harlem, NY
2016 Handmade : Made by Hand, Morton Fine Art, Washington,
DC
2016 Art on the Vine, Marthas Vineyard, MA
2016 SELECT WPA Art Auction Exhibition, Washington DC 2016 Alchemical Vessels, Joan Hisoka Gallery, Washington, DC 2016
The First, Cordesa Fine Art, San Francisco, Ca
2016 Selfish, Brilliant Champions Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2015 Transformer Auction, Washington DC
2015 WPA Art Night, Hickok Cole Architects, Washington DC
2016 Texas Contemporary, Exhibited with Morton Fine Art,
Houston, TX
2016 We may be through with the past, GalleryNine5, New York,
NY
2015 Aqua Art Fair showed with Morton Fine Art, Art Basel,
Miami Fl
2015 SELECT WPA Art Auction Exhibition, Artisphere, Rosslyn,
VA
2015 DC Commission of the Arts & Humanities Visual Artist
Grant Recipients Exhibition, Washington DC
2015 Alchemical Vessels, Joan Hisoka Gallery, Washington, DC
2014 Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series Regional Final Washington
2014 Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series National Finals, SCOPE art fair, Art
Basel, Miami
DC, Anacostia Arts Center, Washington DC
2014 WPA Art Night, Hickok cole Architects, Washington DC
2014 Call + Response IV, Hole In The Sky, Washington DC 2014 Timeless Remnants, Morton Fine Arts, Washington DC
2014 Over the Edge: Paper works unbound Part 1 and Part 2 : Juried by Claire Gilman, Curator at the Drawing
Center, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn NY
2014 Art Show_05, Pizza Factory , Hole In The Sky,
Washington DC
2013 Art Show_02, A Room Full of Murals, Hole In The Sky,
Washington, DC
2013 Art Show_01 , A DC Showcase, Hole In The Sky,
Washington, DC
2013, Decon/Recon,
2013, Cardiac Arrest,
2012, Select Fair at,
2012, Artomatic, Crystal City, VA
Union Arts, Washington, DC The Dunes, Washington, DC Art Basel Miami, Miami, FL
Collaborative Projects
2017 Created and designed Paperhaus Album Cover
2016 Created and designed Paperhaus Single Cover, Silent
Speaking
2019 Yale Center for British Art
2017 Yale University, Imaginary Racial Institute with Claudia Rankine
2017 Pennsylvania College of Art & Design
Media and Publications
2018 Fired Up! Ready To Go! : Finding Beauty, Demanding Equity : An African American Life in Art. The Collections of Peggy Cooper Cafritz. Rizzoli Electa
May 9, 2017 Review / |
The Body as a Field for Graphic Experiments / Hyperallergic/ https://hyperallergic.com/377626/art-in-flux-harlem-terrestrial-resonance/ |
2017 Mosaic Project Artist Nate Lewis uses his experience as a nurse in his art/ Lancaster Online/ November 1 2017. http://lancasteronline.com/features/entertainment/mosaic-project-artist-nate-lewis-uses-his-experience-as-a/article_ea288888-bf15-11e7-b1dc-3360fbc7ac3a.html 2017 Review / Tensions in Tapestries Exhibition Reviewed / Washington Post / April 20, 2017 https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/ museums/in-the-galleries-at-annual-benefit-show-the-world-goes-round/ 2017/04/19/4531c3a0-23a0-11e7-a1b3-faff0034e2de_story.html?utm_term=. 9419cc5d707b |
2015 Article / Fall Art Fair Fever / Houston Chronicle / “Robed in Chants” mentioned and pictured . http:// www.houstonchronicle.com/lifestyle/style/ luxe-life/article/Fall- art-fair-fever-9210722.php#photo-10892666 2016
2016 Article / Textured Biological Tapestries Depicted Over Cut Photographs byNate Lewis / Strictly Paper August 9,2016 / http://strictlypaper.com/blog/ 2016/08/textured-biological- tapestries-depicted-over-cut-photographs- by-nate-lewis/
2016 Article / Nate Lewis Cuts to the Chase / Akeem Duncan for Quiet Lunch No 3. Print Magazine
2016 Review / Biological Tapestries / Margaret Carrigan for Washington City Paper
2016 Interview / From Operating Table to Canvas, Nate Lewis Finds Intricate Art / Mark Lieberman for DCist
2012 A Body of Work, Scrubs Magazine, pg 48, Spring 2012
Grants/Awards/Residencies
2018 – Dieu Donne : Artist Workspace Residency, Brooklyn, NY
2017 – Pioneer Works : Artist in residence , Brooklyn, NY 2017 –
2017- Agora Culture, Art on the Vine Artist In Residence, Marthas Vineyard, MA
2017 -Recipient, DC Commission of the Arts & Humanities Visual
Artist Fellowship Grant
2016 -Recipient, DC Commission of the Arts & Humanities Visual
Artist Fellowship Grant
2015 – Recipient, DC Commission of the Arts & Humanities
Visual Artist Fellowship Grant
2014 – Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series Regional Winner,
Washington DC
Private Collections
Studio Museum of Harlem
21 C Museum and Hotels
Gund Gallery Collection, Kenyon College
Petrucci Family Foundation Collection
University of Maryland
Yuko Nii Foundation