T. Charnan Lewis

T. Charnan Lewis studied art, art history, and women's studies at the University of Maryland and then spent a year working in the Middle East and hitchhiking in Eastern Africa. She worked in film and television for many years until a near death experience on a sailboat. Shifting focus she earned an interdisciplinary MFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Lewis met her writer husband on a subway platform soon after moving to New York City. They now live in upstate New York with their daughter. 

EDUCATION AND AWARDS

2005 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award and Governor’s Citation

2004 MFA Mt. Royal School of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art - Graduate Painting Award

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS

2015   Peekskill Project, HVCCA, Peekskill, NY
           Live Arts Fest, HVCCA, Peekskill, NY

2014   AUNTSforcamera, New Museum, New York, NY and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 
           Life Practices, Movement Research, New York, NY
           Summer Festival, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
           Art in the Wild, Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Cornwall, NY

2013   Pumpkins and Painted Faces, Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY
           Let’s Talk About Love, Baby (Chido Johnson), Printed Matter, New York, NY

2012   NADA Hudson, Basilica Hudson, Hudson, NY

2006   Queens International Biennial, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
           Images featured in Time Out New York and The Art Newspaper 

2005   BAC Festival, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain,

2004   53rd Annual Keisho Art Exhibit, Aichi Museum of Art, Japan
           Camp Kleister, Genauso und Anders Gallery, Berlin, Germany 
           Dark Matter, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD