Vielmetter Los Angeles invites guests to join us on March 29th at 2pm for a conversation between artist Nate Lewis and curator and writer, Taylor Bythewood-Porter on the occasion of Lewis’s solo exhibition Tuning the Signals on view through March 29th.
Nate Lewis (b. Beaver Falls, PA) lives and works in New York, NY. A self-taught artist, Lewis has received numerous grants, residencies, and awards, including the 2017 Pioneer Works Artist in Residence, the 2017 D.C. Commission of the Arts & Humanities Visual Artist Fellowship Grant, the 2020 BRIC Art Prize, the 2020 Colene Brown Art Prize, the 2022 Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in New York, and the 2022 Fountainhead Residency in Miami, among others. He has held solo and two-person exhibitions in New York, Paris, and Washington D.C. His work has been displayed in several group shows at institutions such as The Blanton Museum in Austin, TX; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts in Kalamazoo, MI; Santa Barbara Museum of Art in Santa Barbara, CA; Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore; Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art in Virginia Beach, VA; California African American Museum in Los Angeles, among others.
Lewis’s work is included in the public collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; the Blanton Museum, Austin, TX; the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA; 21c Museum Hotels; the Artistic Museum of Contemporary Art, Cardiff, United Kingdom; the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; the International African-American Museum, Charleston, SC; the Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, CA; the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; and the Wellin Museum of Art, Clinton, NY. He has lectured at Yale University as part of Claudia Rankine’s Racial Imaginary Institute, the Yale Center for British Art, the Phillips Collection, and Paris Photo.
Taylor Bythewood-Porter is a curator and writer. She is the current Curator of History at the Museum of Riverside (MoR), where she is curating First Comes Love: Courtship in the Victorian Era (2025). In 2023, she received the American Association for State and Local History Award of Excellence for her exhibition Rights and Rituals: The Making of African American Debutante Culture (2021) at the California African American Museum (CAAM).
Prior to her appointment at MoR and doing independent projects, Bythewood-Porter was an Assistant Curator at CAAM and co-curated Tatyana Fazlalizadeh: Speaking to Falling Seeds (2023), Cross Colours: Black Fashion in the 20th Century (2020), The Liberator: Chronicling Black Los Angeles, 1900–1914 (2019), Making Mammy: A Caricature of Black Womanhood, 1840–1940 (2019), California Bound: Slavery on the New Frontier, 1848–1865 (2018), and Los Angeles Freedom Rally, 1963 (2018). She also contributed to How Sweet the Sound: The History of Gospel Music in Los Angeles (2018), Circles and Circuits 1: History and Art of the Chinese Caribbean Diaspora (2017), and Lezley Saar: Salon des Refúse (2017).
Her writing has appeared in Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, Frieze Week, and Yesterday We Said Tomorrow for Prospect.5.
She holds a Master of Arts in art business with a concentration in contemporary art from Sotheby’s Institute of Art at Claremont Graduate University and a Bachelor of Arts in Communications with a focus on public relations and journalism and a minor in art history from Monmouth University.
