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