Born in Beaver Falls, PA

Lives and works in New York City, NY

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025

"Tuning The Signals," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

2023

"Still Tuning the Current," Ziddoun Bossuyt, Paris, France

2022

"Tuning the Current," Fridman Gallery, New York, NY

2020

"Latent Tapestries," Fridman Gallery, New York, NY

2019

"Untitled Art Miami Beach with Remy Jungerman," Fridman Gallery, Miami, FL

"Paris Photo," Curiosa section, Fridman Gallery, Paris, France

The Armory Show, Focus section, Fridman Gallery, New York, NY

2018

EXPO Chicago, Fridman Gallery, Chicago, IL

"1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair," Special Projects, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY

"Latent Tensions," Spring Break Art Show curated by Dustin Yellin

2017

"Mosaic Project," Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, Lancaster, PA

"Tensions in Tapestries," Morton Fine Art, Washington D.C.

2016

"Cheryl Derricotte and Nate Lewis: Fragile Vessels," Loyola University, Baltimore, MD

"Biological Tapestries 1st Movement," Morton Fine Art, Washington D.C.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023

"Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Lost/Found, Galleria Poggiali, Milano, Italy

"Get That Old Thing Back," Sugar Hill Children's Museum, New York, NY

"Still, Life! Mourning, Meaning, Mending," 21c Museum Hotels

"Day Jobs," The Blanton Museum, Austin, TX

Expo Chicago, group booth, Ziddoun Bossuyt, Chicago, IL

Felix Art Fair, group booth, Fridman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2022

"This is Not What it Seems," Ziddoun Bossuyt, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

Recent Acquisitions, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

2021

Recent Acquisitions, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

"A Stranger’s Soul Is A Deep Well," Fridman Gallery, New York, NY

"Arches and Ink," Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY

"Retro Africa Gallery presents Do This in Memory of Us," Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY

"What is Past is Prologue," 21 C Museum, Louisville, KY

2020

"Hide and Seek: Portraying, Projecting, and Playing," 21c Museum, Kansas City, MO

"Translating Valence," Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI

"Listening for the Unsaid," David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

"Parallels and Peripheries: Fractals and Fragments," Curated by Larry Ossei Mensah, Galleria Anna Marra, Rome, Italy

"Shifting Gaze: A Reconstruction of the Black & Hispanic Body in Contemporary Art," Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA

"Art On The Grid," Public Art Fund, New York, NY

"Statues Also Die," Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT

2019

"Men of Change," Smithsonian Institute Traveling Exhibition Services, Washington State Historical Society, Tacoma, WA

"Dress Up, Speak Up: Regalia and Resistance," 21c Museum, Cincinnati, OH

"Men of Change," Smithsonian Institute Traveling Exhibition Services, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH

William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT "Plumb Line: Charles White and the Contemporary," California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA

2018

"Legacy of The Cool: A Tribute to Barkley Hendricks," Bakalar & Paine Galleries, Mass College of Art & Design, Boston, MA

"Strange Beach," Fridman Gallery, New York, NY

2017

"Art on the Vine," Martha's Vineyard, MA

"Terrestrial Resonance," Art in Flux, Harlem, NY

"Handmade: Made by Hand," Morton Fine Art, Washington D.C.

2016

"Art on the Vine," Martha's Vineyard, MA

SELECT WPA Art Auction Exhibition, Washington D.C. "Alchemical Vessels," Joan Hisaoka Gallery, Washington D.C.

"The First," Cordesa Fine Art, San Francisco, CA

"Selfish," Brilliant Champions Gallery, Brooklyn NY

Texas Contemporary, Exhibited with Morton Fine Art, Houston, TX

"We may be through with the past," Gallery Nine 5, New York, NY

2015

Transformer Auction, Washington, D.C.

"WPA Art Night," Hickok Cole Architects, Washington D.C.

Aqua Art Fair showed with Morton Fine Art, Art Basel, Miami, FL

SELECT WPA Art Auction Exhibition, Artisphere, Rosslyn, VA

D.C. Commission of the Arts & Humanities Visual Artist Grant Recipients Exhibition, Washington D.C. "Alchemical Vessels," Joan Hisaoka Gallery, Washington, D.C.

2014

Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series Regional Final Washington D.C.

SCOPE Art Fair, Miami, FL

WPA Art Night, Hickok Cole Architects, Washington D.C.

"Call + Response IV," Hole In The Sky, Washington, D.C.

"Timeless Remnants," Morton Fine Arts, Washington D.C.

"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

2013

Art Show_05, Pizza Factory, Hole In The Sky, Washington D.C.

Art Show_02, A Room Full of Murals, Hole In The Sky, Washington D.C.

Art Show_01 , A D.C. Showcase, Hole In The Sky, Washington D.C.

Awards & Grants

2023

Art Hx Artist in Residence, Department of Art and Archeology, Princeton University

2022

Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, New York, NY

Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL

2020

BRIC

Colene Brown Art Prize

Art Noir 12

2018

Dieu Donne: Artist Workspace Residency, Brooklyn, NY

2017

Pioneer Works: Artist in residence, Brooklyn, NY

Agora Culture, Art on the Vine Artist In Residence, Martha's Vineyard, MA

Recipient, D.C. Commission of the Arts & Humanities Visual Artist Fellowship Grant

2015

Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series Regional Winner, Washington D.C.

Bibliography

2025

Carollo, Elisa. "On View: Nate Lewis’ Language of Bodies at Vielmetter," The Observer, March 6

Jacobson, Andrew S. "Nate Lewis’ ‘Tuning the Signals’ at Vielmetter Los Angeles: The Rhythm of Movement and Meaning," LA Sentinel, February 26

Silverman, Erica. "Nate Lewis Delves Deeper with “Tuning the Signals” at Vielmetter Los Angeles," Whitewall, February 20

2023

Jacobson, Andrew S. "DMV Artists Impress at LA Vielmetter Exhibition," The Washington Informer, July 21

Wexler, Ellen. "How Artists’ Day Jobs Shape Their Craft," Smithsonian Magazine, March 10

2022

Waddoups, Ryan. "Nate Lewis’s Dancing Figures Awaken a Sense of Healing," Surface Magazine, September 26

2020

Mitter, Siddhartha. "This Artist Got His Start as an I.C.U. Nurse," The New York Times, March 19

Royale, Renee, "Nate Lewis’ Intricate Paper Sculptures Are Informed by What He Learned in Nursing School," The Observer, Febraury 28

Cowan, Katy. "Nate Lewis's intricately carved works on paper share his experience as a 'critical-care' nurse in Washington DC," Creative Boom, January 30

Publications

2020

Lewis, Nate and Niama Safia Sandy. Nate Lewis: Latent Tapestries. New York: Fridman Gallery, 2020.

Special Projects

2019

Kassa Overall, Jazz Gallery Residency, The Jazz Gallery, New York, NY

Kassa Overall, Ben Lamar Gay, Matana Roberts, Luke Stewart, Melanie Charles, Fridman Gallery, New York, NY

2016-2017

Created and designed Paperhaus Album and Single Covers

Public Collections

21c Museum Hotels

Artistic Museum of Contemporary Art, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin Grinnell College, Austin, TX

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

Gund Gallery Collection, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH

Hall Art Foundation, Reading, VT

International African American Museum

Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, FL

Petrucci Family Foundation Collection, Asbury, NJ

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

The Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, NY

University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA

Wellin Museum of Art, Oneida County, NY

Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC

Yuko Nii Foundation, New York, NY