MARK LEWIS

Mark Lewis is one of Canada’s most renowned and internationally acclaimed artists working in film-based media (digital and analog), and photography. He was born in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1958, and has worked most of his life in Toronto and in Vancouver. He currently lives and works in London, England. Starting out as a photographer, Mark Lewis attended Harrow College of Art (London) and the Polytechnic of Central London, and began making films in the mid 1990s. He has had major solo museum exhibitions all over the world, including: the Vancouver Art Gallery, Hamburger Kunstverein, Musée d’art moderne (Luxembourg), BFI Southbank (London) and the National Museum of Contemporary Art (Bucharest, Romania), and in 2007 presented at PS1 as part of the International Projects Series. His work is in many prestigious museum collections including the National Gallery of Canada, Museum of Modern Art New York, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, and the Centre Pompidou (Paris).

Mark Lewis is co-founder and co-editor, with Charles Esche, of Afterall —a research and publishing organisation based at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London. He is a founding and co-editor of Afterall Journal, and the series editor of the One Work, a series of books, published by Afterall Books that examine important single modern and contemporary works of art. Recent titles in the series include Andy Warhol: Blow Job by Peter Gidal and Alighiero e Boetti: Mappa by Luca Cerizza. Afterall also publish a series of readers and recently co-produced Art and the Moving Image with Tate Publishing. Mark Lewis is a Research Professor at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of Arts London. Mark is represented by Monte Clark Gallery (Vancouver), Clark & Faria Gallery (Toronto) and Galerie Serge le Borgne (Paris)

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photo courtesy Mark Lewis