Tau Lewis

b. 1993, Toronto, Canada

Lives and works in Brookyn, NY

SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2024

Spirit Level, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston (ICA Boston), Boston, MA

Coloratura, The Polygon Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada

2023

Tau Lewis, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami (ICA Miami), Miami, FL

2022

Vox Populi, Vox Dei, 52 Walker, New York, NY

2021

Symphony, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada

2020

Triumphant Alliance of the Ubiquitous Blossoms of Incarnate Souls, Cooper Cole, Toronto, ON, Canada

Sparkle’s Map Home, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON, Canada

2019

The Coral Reef Preservation Society, Yorkshire Sculpture International at The Hepworth Wakefield,

Yorkshire, UK

when you last found me here, Kenderine Art Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, SK, Canada

I’m countin on you to ground me again, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

I heard a heartbeat down in the black hole, Cordova, Barcelona, Spain (two-person)

2018

I bet this cave has been here for a really long time, Shoot the Lobster, New York, NY

when you last found me here, The Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, ON, Canada

Cheyenne Julien and Tau Lewis, Chapter NY, New York, NY (two-person)

making it work to be together while we can, Jeffrey Stark, New York, NY

Tau Lewis, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA

2017

Through the people we are looking at ourselves, Cooper Cole, Toronto, ON, Canada (two-person)

cyphers, tissue, blizzards, exile, 8-11 Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada

2016

foraged, ain’t free, The Pendulum Project, Studio 223a, Toronto, ON, Canada

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 2023 2022 2021 Color Is the First Revelation of the World, Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA), Costa Mesa, CA

Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, Barbican, London, UK

Making Their Mark, The Shah Garg Foundation, New York, NY

Playscape, JTT, New York, NY

My Way: A Gathering, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY

Au-delà: Rituals for a New World, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, France

To Begin Again, ICA Boston, Boston, MA

Black Atlantic, Public Art Fund at Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York, NY

The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

Awakening: seeing beyond the frame, Musée d’art de Joliette, Joliette, QC, Canada

WHAT DO YOU SEE, YOU PEOPLE, GAZING AT ME, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK

The Armory Show, Platform Sector curated by Claudia Schmuckli, New York, NY

Yesterday we said tomorrow, Prospect.5, New Orleans, LA

No Humans Involved, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Time Takes a Cigarette, Josh Lilley Gallery, London, UK

Threadbare, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UKSELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS CONTINUED

2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 Majeure Force: Part Two, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Liminal States, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, Germany

Estuary, Art Gallery of Nanaimo, Nanaimo, BC, Canada

People, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA

Ragga NYC x Mercer Union, Mercer Union, Toronto, ON, Canada

Yard Show curated by Marcus Jahmal, Shrine Gallery, New York, NY

Unmasked, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, Canada

In Pursuit of the Perfect Rose, Gallery 44, Toronto, ON, Canada

Ragga NYC x MoMA Ps1: Back to School, MoMA PS1, New York, NY

Entering the Landscape, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Migrating the Margins, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, ON, Canada

True Lies, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Red Hills of Lardoss, Down & Ross, New York, NY

CAN’T TOUCH THIS, Mulherin, New York, NY

Ragga NYC: All the threatened and delicious things joining one another, New Museum, New York, NY

DOORED 29, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada

The Un-Othered Body, OCAD Graduate Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada

Open House, Sleep Center, New York, NY

Fresh Constructions, Katzman Contemporary in collaboration with YTB Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada

PRISMATIC, The Drake Hotel, Toronto, ON, Canada

Future 33, Younger than Beyoncé Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada

BODY TALK, Project Gallery Studios, Toronto, ON, Canada

Massive Party 2016: Midnight Massive, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada

Nice Pile of Bricks, House of Vans, Toronto, ON, Canada

DON’T CARE ABOUT LOSING, 1287 Dupont, Toronto, ON, Canada

CHOST HOLE VIII, Jam Factory Co., Toronto, ON, Canada

Bad Girls Club, 116 Geary Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada

Carbon Paper Issue #4 launch, 8-11 Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada

Women in Music and Arts, Emmanuel Howard Park United Church, Toronto, ON, Canada

Massive Party 2015: HOTBED, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada

TAVES 2014, Sheraton Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada

This Is Not For You, Brockton Collective, Toronto, ON, Canada

This Is Not For You, Creatures Creating, Toronto, ON, Canada

This Is Not For You, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada

BOOKS AND CATALOGUES

2024 2023 2022 2019 2017 Tau Lewis, ICA Boston and Delmonico Books

Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, Barbican and Prestel

What Do You See, You People, Gazing at Me, Sadie Coles HQ and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König

To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood, ICA Boston and Delmonico Books

Clarion V: Tau Lewis, David Zwirner Books

Making Their Mark: Art by Women in the Shah Garg Collection, Gregory R. Miller & Co.

Prime: Art’s Next Generation, Phaidon

drawing together: 201 Exquisite Corpses, Edition Moderne Museum im Bellpark

Migrating the Margins: Circumlocating the Future of Toronto Art, Art Gallery of York University

Everything is a time capsule, Magenta Foundation (National Gallery of Canada, Library and Archives Collection)ARTIST TALKS / PANELS

2024 2023 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 Pratt University MFA artist talk, New York, NY

The Work in the World: Thinking through “Called to Create: Black American Artists of the South”, National Gallery of Art,

Washington D.C.

Tau Lewis in conversation with Woody De Othello and Lucas Zwirner, Art Speaks Montreal, Montreal, QC Canada

Magic in Limitation, with Hans Ulrich Obrist, DLD Conference, Munich, Germany

Is sculpture the most anthropological of the art forms? Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, United Kingdom

Western University MFA artist talk, London, ON, Canada

New York University MFA artist talk, New York, NY

Queen’s University BFA artist talk, Kingston, ON, Canada

Agnes Etherington Art Centre artist talk, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada

Art and Black Canada, with Charmaine Lurch and Yaniya Lee, moderated by Katherine Mckittrick, Queen’s University,

Kingston, ON, Canada

Tau Lewis in conversation with Katherine Mckittrick, Mercer Union, Toronto, ON, Canada

OCAD University “Crit Club” artist talk, Toronto, ON, Canada

Triangle Trade Conversations, with Charmaine Lurch, mediated by Yaniya Lee, Gallery TPW, Toronto, ON, Canada

In Pursuit of the Perfect Rose, with Rajni Perera, Rah, Dalia Amara, and Shellie Zhang, mediated by

Leila Fatemi, Gallery 44, Toronto, ON, Canada

Entering the Landscape, with Rajni Perera, Rah, Dalia Amara, and Shellie Zhang, mediated by Jenifer Papararo

and Sarah Nesbitt, Plug in ICA, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Magic in Limitation (Sculpting with found objects), Plug in ICA, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

The Hallmark of Tolerance, with Ayisha Gariba, Alaana Butler, Gyimah Gariba, and Huda Hassan,

University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

The (Un)Othered Body, with Oreka James, Dainesha Nugent-Palache, and Mariam Magsi, mediated by

Jessica Karuhanga, OCAD University, Toronto, ON, Canada

Black cultural appropriation vs. reclamation, with Lou Boileau, mediated by Sheniece Cater, OCAD University,

Toronto, ON, Canada

Conversation with Yaniya Lee, in conjunction with cyphers, tissue, blizzards, exile, 8-11 Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada

City Limits, with Karimah Gheddai, mediated by Syndney Allen-Ash, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada

Sorry, Not Sorry, with Merray Gerges, mediated by Dainesha Nugent-Palache, Art Gallery of Ontario,

Toronto, ON, Canada

AWARDS & GRANTS

2024 2023 2022 2021 2019 2018 2017 2016 Burrard Arts Foundation Commission, The Polygon Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Ezratti Family Prize for Sculpture, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami (ICA Miami), Miami, FL

Canada Arts Council Project Grant

Canada Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant

Canada Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant

Canada Arts Council Project Grant

Frieze Frame Stand Prize, Cooper Cole solo presentation, Frieze New York

Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant (Third Space Art Projects)

The Hynatyshyn Foundation’s William and Meredith Saunderson Prize for Emerging Artists

Toronto Arts Council, Emerging Visual Artists Grant

Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant (Third Space Art Projects)

Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant (The Power Plant Contemporary)

Toronto Arts Council Emerging Visual Artists GrantSELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Grinnell College Museum of Art, Grinnell, IA

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Miami, FL

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, QC, Canada

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Library Collection, New York, NY

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco, CA

Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada