Tau Lewis

Tau Lewis

b. 1993, Toronto
lives in Toronto

Tau Lewis is a self-taught multimedia artist who primarily works with textiles, carving, and assemblage of found objects. Her intention in her use of recycled and found materials is to invoke the necessity of such practices in various cultures and contexts. There is a therapeutic and cathartic element to her work in that it references past personal and collective traumas and acknowledges the restorative power of labor. She also often references her heritage and recounts real and imagined ancestral histories. In 2018 Lewis was awarded Frieze New York’s Frame Stand Prize for her solo presentation with Toronto’s Cooper Cole Gallery. Recent and upcoming solo and group exhibitions of Lewis’s work have been hosted by, among others, The Hammer, Los Angeles; Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario; The Hepworth Wakefield, UK; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; MoMA PS1, New York; Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg; and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario. Lewis’s work can be found in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, Ottawa, and the Grinnell College Museum of Art, Iowa.

Tau Lewis, Sparkle and Sparkle's map home, 2018. Mixed Media. Courtesy of Tau Lewis and Cooper Cole, Toronto