Joe Lewis (Joseph S. Lewis III; born 1953 in New York City) is a
post-conceptual non-media specific American artist and educator.[1] Lewis was co-founding director of
Fashion Moda in New York, where he curated and mounted numerous exhibitions and performance events.[2] He also early on has been associated with
Colab and
ABC No Rio[3][4]
Life and work
Lewis received his bachelor’s in 1975 from
Hamilton College, and then his M.F.A. in 1989 from
Maryland Institute. [5] He served as a faculty member at
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) from 1991 to 1995, and then as chair of the Department of Art at
California State University, Northridge from 1995 to 2001.In 2001, he became the dean of the School of Art & Design at the
Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. In 2004, he was appointed the dean of the School of Art & Design in the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in New York. [6] He became the dean of Claire Trevor School of the Arts at University of California Irvine in March, 2010[7][5] until resigning from his post after being accused of violating sexual harassment policy in October 2014.[8][9] He remains on the faculty of UCI. Currently, he is president of the Noah Purifoy Foundation located in Joshua Tree, California.
1992 Commission, Art for Rail Transit, METRO/BLUE LINE, LACTC, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Lead Artist, Commission, Chandler Outdoor Gallery Project, 4/5ths of a mile of murals produced in the Chandler Corridor, 14 artists and a local middle school, North Hollywood Community Redevelopment Agency, CA
1991 Maryland State Arts Council, Fellowship, New Genres
1990 Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, Artist in Residence Grant
1989-90 Commission, Mayor's Advisory Committee on Art and Culture, Baltimore, MD
^Alan W. Moore, Artists' Collectives: Focus on New York, 1975-2000 in Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945, Blake Stimson & Gregory Sholette, (eds) University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2007, pp. 193-221
^Max Schumann (ed.) A Book about Colab (and Related Activities)Printed Matter, Inc, 2016: pp.9-11
Carlo McCormick, The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene, 1974–1984, Princeton University Press, 2006.
Alan W. Moore and Marc Miller, eds. ABC No Rio Dinero: The Story of a Lower East Side Art Gallery New York: ABC No Rio with Collaborative Projects, 1985.