Martha Lewis
Martha Lewis is a visual artist, curator, educator and radio presenter who has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her artistic practice focuses on drawing, Site-Specific Installation, books, knowledge, and the history of science.
Martha is the resident curator at The Institute Library in New Haven, where she organizes contemporary art exhibitions relating to words, books, archives or collections.
Martha’s work has been exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, The Tricycle Gallery and The Oxford University Botanical Gardens in the UK., and in the USA at The DeCordova Museum, Central Booking Gallery, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Planthouse Gallery, RealArtWays and The Tides Institute and Museum, to name a few.
She is included in the collections of Nuffield College, Oxford, The Boston Public Library, Boston, Ma., and Chapman University, Orange, Ca. as well as in private collections in the U.S.A and Europe. A selection of her works on paper is available at The Flatfile at Pierogi, and at Planthouse Gallery in New York.
In addition to her studio practice, Martha currently hosts two radio shows–Live Culture-now in its 4th year, a monthly discussion on art and culture, which are also available as podcasts here, and The Flux Capacitor a music program, both on WPKN FM, where she is currently Director of Press and Publicity. There are Facebook pages for both The Flux Capacitor and Live Culture.
Various other past curatorial projects have included: Vertical Reach -co-curated with Sarah Fritchey, with the support of Culture PL), CT (UN) Bound (in collaboration with the Yale University Art Gallery), Fetish Objects, Instructions Not Included, Agit-Crop, Shiny Pop, and SCRAWL, all for Artspace, New Haven. Additionally, she has put together the shows Yarn Theory and Domestic Violence/ The Facts Are In, with director Susan Schriber, at PS. 122 Gallery in New York.
Martha has taught various studio art courses at The Art Students League in New York, Choate-Rosemary Hall, Columbia University, and through The College Seminar Program at Yale University, as well as giving numerous art-related workshops and presentations in a variety of venues.
