Born in 1993, Toronto, Canada. Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024
Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston, MA (forthcoming)
The Polygon Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (forthcoming)
2023
Tau Lewis, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami, FL
2022
Vox Populi, Vox Dei, 52 Walker, New York, NY
2021
Symphony, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
2020
Triumphant Alliance of the Ubiquitous Blossoms of Incarnate Souls, Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada
Sparkle's Map Home, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada
2019
The Coral Reef Preservation Society, The Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
when last you found me here, Kennderine Art Gallery, College Art Galleries University of Saskatchewan Art Collection, Saskatchewan, 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 last you found me here, The Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Canada
Cheyenne Julien and Tau Lewis, Chapter NY, New York, NY
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, Canada
cyphers, tissue, blizzards, exile, 8-11 Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2016
foraged, ain't free, The Pendulum Project, Studio 223a, Toronto, Canada
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
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, United Kingdom
2023
Making Their Mark, curated by Cecilia Alemani, Shah Gang Foundation, New York, NY; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA; Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Dancing in the Light, MOCA Toronto, Toronto, Canada
My Way: A Gathering, Nicelle Beauchene, New York, NY
Au-delà, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, France
2022
To Begin Again: Artists and Children, ICA Boston, Boston, MA
Black Atlantic, Public Art Fund, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, New York, NY
Biennale Arte 2022: The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Arsenale, Venice, Italy
Awakening: seeing beyond the frame, Musée d’art de Joliette, Joliette, Quebec, Canada
2021
WHAT DO YOU SEE, YOU PEOPLE, GAZING AT ME., Sadie Coles, London, United Kingdom
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 of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Time Takes a Cigarette, Josh Lilley Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Threadbare, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
2020
Majeure Force: Part Two, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Liminal States, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, Germany
2019
Estuary, Art Gallery of Nanaimo, Nanaimo, Canada
People, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Ragga NYC x Mercer Union, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
Yard Show, curated by Marcus Jahmal, Shrine Gallery, New York, NY
2017
Unmasked, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, Canada
In Pursuit of the Perfect Rose, Gallery 44, Toronto, Canada
Ragga NYC x MoMa PS1: Back to School, MoMa PS1, New York, NY
Entering the Landscape, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Canada
Migrating the Margins, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada
True Lies, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Red Hills of Lardossa, Down & Ross, New York, NY
CAN'T TOUCH THIS, Mulherin, New York, NY
Ragga NYC: All the threatened and delicious things joining on another, New Museum, New York, NY
DOORED 29, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
The Un-Othered Body, OCAD Graduate Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2016
Open House, Sleep Center, New York, NY
Fresh Constructions, Katzman Contemporary in collaboration with YTB Gallery, Toronto, Canada
PRISMATIC, The Drake Hotel, Toronto, Canada
Future 33, Younger than Beyoncé Gallery, Toronto, Canada
BODY TALK, Project Gallery Studios, 184 Munro St, Toronto, Canada
Massive Party 2016: Midnight Massive, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Nice Pile of Bricks, 950 Dupont (House of Vans), Toronto, Canada
DON'T CARE ABOUT LOSING, 1287 Dupont, Toronto, Canada
2015
GHOST HOLE VII, Jam Factory Co., Toronto, Canada
Bad Girls Club, 116 Geary Ave, Toronto, Canada
Carbon Paper Issue #4 launch, 8-11 Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Women In Music and Arts, Emmanuel Howard Park United Church, Toronto, Canada
Massive Party 2015: HOTBED, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
2014
TAVES 2014, Sheraton Centre, Toronto, Canada
This Is Not For You, Brockton Collective, Toronto, Canada
This Is Not For You, Creatures Creating, Toronto, Canada
This Is Not For You, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Canada
COLLABORATIONS
2016
Art Toronto MOCA Benefit Edition, Fourth Floor with Tau, Portrait, collaboration with Jeff Bierk, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada
Performance Night curated by Tau Lewis, with performances by Kiera Boult, Jazmine VK Carr, Danièle Dennis, Erika De Freitas and Jazmyn Fyffe, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, Canada
ARTIST TALKS/PANELS
2024
Pratt University MFA artist talk, New York, NY
2023
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, ArtSpeaks, Montreal, Canada
2020
Magic in Limitation, Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with Tau Lewis, DLD Conference, Munich, Germany
2019
Is sculpture the most anthropological of the art forms? Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, United Kingdom
MFA artist talk at Western University, London, Canada
2018
MFA artist talk at New York University, New York, NY
BFA artist talk at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
Artist talk at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
Art and Black Canada, with Charmaine Lurch and Yaniya Lee, moderated by Katherine Mckittrick, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
Tau Lewis in conversation with Katherine Mckittrick, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
Artist Talk at OCAD University for "Crit Club," Toronto, Canada
2017
Triangle Trade Conversations, artist talk with Charmaine Lurch, mediated by Yaniya Le, Gallery TPW, Toronto, Canada
In Pursuit of the Perfect Rose, panel discussion with Rajni Perera, Rah, Dalia Amara, and Shellie Zhang, mediated by Leila Fatemi, Gallery 44, Toronto, Canada
Entering the Landscape, panel discussion with Rajni Perera, Rah, Dalia Amara and Shelie Zhang, mediated by Jenifer Papararo, and Sarah Nesbitt, Plug in ICA, Winnipeg, Canada
Magic in Limitation (Sculpting with found objects), Plug in ICA, Winnipeg, Canada
The Hallmark of Tolerance, panel discussion with Ayisha Gariba, Alaana Butler, Gyimah Gariba and Huda Hassan, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
The (Un)Othered Body, panel discussion with Oreka James, Dainesha Nugent-Palache and Mariam Magsi, mediated by Jessica Karuhanga, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada
Black cultural appropriation vs. reclamation, panel discussion with Lou Boileau, mediated by Sheniece Cater, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada
Tau Lewis in Conversation with Yaniya Lee, artist talk in conjunction with cyphers, tissue, blizzards, exile, 8-11 Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2016
City Limits, panel discussion with Karimah Gheddai, mediated by Sydney Allen-Ash, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, Canada
Sorry, Not Sorry, panel discussion with Merray Gerges, mediated by Dainesha Nugent-Palache, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
WORKSHOPS
2019
Quilt making workshop with Thorncliffe Public School, Toronto, Canada
2018
Portrait workshop with Wide Rainbow Organization, Jacob Riis Neighborhood Settlement, Queens, NY
Quilt making with Roots and Wings Foundation Part 2, The Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Canada
Costume making workship inspired by Rammellzee's Garbage Gods, with Abrons Arts Center
Kids Summer Camp, Redbull Arts, New York, NY
Quilt making with Roots and Wings Foundation, The Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Canada
2017
Magic in Limitation (Sculpting with found objects), Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada
PUBLICATIONS
2023
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.
2022
Prime: Art’s Next Generation, Phaidondrawing together: 201 Exquisite Corpses, Edition Moderne Museum im Bellpark
2019
Migrating the Margins: Circumlocating the Future of Toronto Art, Art Gallery of York University
2017
Everything is a time capsule, published by Magenta Foundation (National Gallery of Canada, Library and Archives Collection
AWARDS & GRANTS
2024
Burrard Arts Foundation Commission, The Polygon Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2023
Ezratti Family Prize for Sculpture, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami (ICA Miami), Miami, FL
2022
Project Grants to Visual Artists, Canada Arts Council, Canada
2021
Exhibition Assistance to Visual Artists, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada
2019
Exhibition Assistance to Visual Artists, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada
Project Grants to Visual Artists, Canada Arts Council, Canada
2018
Frieze Frame Stand Prize, solo presentation with Cooper Cole, Frieze New York, New York, NY
Exhibition Assistance for Visual Artists, Third Space Art Projects, Ontario Arts Council, Ontario, Canada
2017
William and Meredith Saunderson Prize for Emerging Artists, The Hynastyshyn Foundation, Ottawa, Canada
Emerging Visual Artists Grant, Toronto Arts Council, Toronto, Canada
Exhibition Assistance for Visual Artists, (Third Space Art Projects), Ontario Arts Council, Ontario, Canada
Exhibition Assistance for Visual Artists, (The Power Plant Contemporary), Ontario Arts Council, Ontario, Canada
2016
Emerging Visual Artists Grant, Toronto Arts Council, Toronto, Canada
COLLECTIONS
Grinnell College Museum of Art, Grinnell, IA
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Miami, FL
Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Library Collection, New York, NY
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA