Tony Lewis

Tony Lewis è nato nel 1986 a Los Angeles. Attualmente vive e lavora a Chicago.


La pratica di Lewis si concentra sulla relazione tra semiotica e linguaggio per affrontare temi sociali e politici come la razza, il potere, la comunicazione e il lavoro. Lewis crea disegni utilizzando grafite, matita e carta, mezzi che l'artista usa per tracciare e sviluppare narrazioni astratte e riflessioni sulla nozione di gestualità. Spingendo i confini del disegno e le possibilità dell'astrazione, l'artista espande l'uso del "materiale" nel linguaggio. Come ha affermato Melissa Chiu, direttrice dell'Hirshhorn Museum: "Lewis si è rapidamente affermato nel mondo dell'arte contemporanea formando un vocabolario visivo distinto che integra poesia e testo con le proprietà dell'astrazione. I suoi disegni monocromatici attingono a varie fonti visive e scritte, che vanno dal personale al politico. Separando, riordinando e cancellando il testo, sposta il modo in cui ci muoviamo attraverso il linguaggio per aprire nuove e inaspettate letture"

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Opere

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2023
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2021
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2020
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2019
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2015
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Biografia

Mostre personali
Anno
Paese, Titolo mostra, Location
2023
USA, CASUAL T, Orange County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
HK, New Song We Wrest! Who Throng Heat Yet? Tone Got Flower Work., MASSIMODECARLO, Hong Kong
F, CASUAL T, MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique, Paris
2022
USA, EONS OF NEON NESCIENT PEONS POPCORN INFLUENCE AND SUCH, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
2021
UK, Sing Plunder, Think Gentle Damage, Maintain Tomorrow, Et al., MASSIMODECARLO, London
UK, Noise! Yourself, Also Distrain, MASSIMODECARLO, London
2020
I, The Dangers (As Far As I Can See), Massimo De Carlo, Milano
2019
USA, Charlatan And Ultimately A Boring Man, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
2018
E, Campo de juego, Art Projects Ibiza, Ibiza
USA, Anthology 2014-2016, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington
HK, Engine Insist Itself Nothing Short Etc., Massimo De Carlo, Hong Kong
2017
USA, Jot, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
UK, When I Felt Like I Could Sing That, Then I Felt Like I Was In, Massimo De Carlo, London
USA, Plunder, Rose Art Museum, Waltham
2016
I, Alms, Comity and Plunder, Marino Marini Museum, Florence
2015
USA, Tony Lewis: nomenclature movement free pressure power weight, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland
USA, Pall, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago
I, Wordnonpseudo, Massimo De Carlo, Milano
CH, Art Basel Unlimited, Basel
2014
UK, I Believe History Is a Force, Massimo De Carlo, London
2012
USA, Nine Drawings for Charles, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago
2011
USA, Autumn Space Presents: Tony Lewis, Autumn Space Gallery, Chicago
Mostre collettive
Anno
Paese, Titolo mostra, Location
2024
USA, Come One, Come All, Anthony Gallery, Chicago
USA, RETROaction (part two) A cura di Homi K. Bahba, Kate Fowle, Charles Gaines, Ellen Tani, Hauser & Wirth, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles
USA, WORKS BY: Tony Lewis with Bethany Collins, Devin T. Mays & Ellen Rothenberg, Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, Chicago
2023
USA, Levity, Alexander Berggruen, New York
2022
ROK, MINIMALISM-MAXIMALISM-MECHANISSMMM A cura di Jacob Fabricius, ArtSonjeCenter, Seoul
USA, Sympathy for the Translator, The ICA at MECA&D, Portland
USA, In With The New…, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
USA, Sculpture as Verb, Gund Gallery, Gambier
USA, Citing Black Geographies, GRAY Gallery, Chicago
I, Reading a Wave A cura di Douglas Fogle and Hanneke Skerath, Palomar, Pognana
USA, In With The New…, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
USA, Sympathy for the Translator, ICA at Maine Collage of Art & Design, Portland
USA, In These Truths, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York
I, Winter Wunderkammer, MASSIMODECARLO, VSpace
2021
USA, Thing, The Gerald Luss House, Ossining, New York
USA, Grain of a Hand: Drawings with Charcoal, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
I, Villa Chiuminatto, Villa Chiuminatto, Torino
USA, Hiding in Plain Sight, Pace Gallery, New York
USA, At The Luss House: Blum & Poe, Mendes Wood DM and Object & Thing, The Gerald Luss House, Ossining, NY
2020
USA, 5,471 miles, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
USA, The Long Dream, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2019
USA, Words, Alexander Berggruen Gallery LLC, New York
2018
USA, Untitled (Monochrome), 1957-2017, Richard Taittinger Gallery, New York
USA, Under Erasure A cura di Heather and Raphael Rubinstein, Pierogi, New York
USA, This is a Pipe: Realism and the Found Object in Contemporary Art, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago
USA, Second Sight: The Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick
2017
PA, Speech/Acts, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
USA, Color People, Rental Gallery, East Hampton
UK, The Gap Between the Fridge and the Cooker, The Modern Institute, Glasgow
2016
UK, Self, Massimo De Carlo, London
USA, Chicago Invites Chicago, Galerie Lelong, New York
USA, The Revolution Will Not Be Grey, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen

Bibliografia

Anno
Autore, Titolo pubblicazione, Data
2021
Artdaily, april
2020
Giorgini, Elena, ArtsLife, February
2019
Zara, Janelle, Artnet News, May 31
2018
Webwire.com, February
Catlin, Roger, Smithsonianmag.com, March
Gould, Jocelyn, Thejustice.org, April
Hallé, Isabelle, Bowdoinorient.com, February
Lewis, Tony, Anthology 2014-2016, Catalogo della mostra.
2017
Bay State Banner, December
2016
Zero, Aprile
LA Times, 2 May
Fassi, Luigi, Mousse Magazine
Flash Art Edizione Italiana, March/April
2015
Inside/Within
Fabricius, Jacob, Mousse
Michalska, Julia, The Art Newspaper, June 18th
ARTFORUM, Nov
Tony Lewis: Free movement power nomenclature pressure weight, Catalogo della mostra.
Fabricius, Jacob, Making Room for Drawing Series, Catalogo della mostra.
2014
Tony Lewis speaks with Dr. Robert P. Vande Kappelle
Blake, Kevin, Bad at Sports, April
Duray, Dan, Andrew Russeth e Zoe Lescaze, 12 Things to Do in New York's Art World Before May 11th
Foumberg, Jason, Newcity
Pechman, Ali, Art Forum
Samuels Gibbs, Adrienne, Chicago Sunday Times
museumagazine online
2013
Judd, Jason, Make Space
Niendorf, Emmaline, Simply Magnificent
Schouweiler, Susannah, Knight Arts

Collezioni pubbliche

Paese
Location
Italy
Collezione La Gaia, Busca
United Kingdom
The Zabludowicz Collection, London
United States of America
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington D.C.
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
University of Michigan Museum of Art, in Ann Arbor, Michigan

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