2018
NATE LEWIS
Born in Beaver Falls, PA (1985). Lives and works in New York City.
Nate Lewis explores history through patterns, textures, and rhythm, creating meditations of celebration and lamentations.
He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing from VCU, and practiced critical-care nursing in DC-area hospitals for nine years. Lewis’ first artistic pursuit was playing the violin in 2008, followed by drawing in 2010. Since 2017 he has lived and worked in New York City.
Lewis’ work has been exhibited at the California African American Museum; The Studio Museum in Harlem; The Yale Center for British Art; 21c Museum Hotels; with the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services.
Past residencies include the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, Fountainhead, Pioneer Works and Dieu Donne. Lewis’ work is in the public collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Carnegie Museum of Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Blanton Museum of Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Grinnell College Museum of Art, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Kadist Foundation, and 21c Museum Hotels. He has lectured at Yale University as part of Claudia Rankine’s Racial Imaginary Institute, the Yale Center for British Art, and Paris Photo.
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