Nate Lewis (b. 1985, Beaver Falls, PA) earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing from Virginia Commonwealth University, and practiced critical-care nursing for nine years. 

Lewis’ signature paper-carving techniques explore connections among the visual languages of dance movement, anatomy, medical diagnostics and weather-pattern data. In the process he raises questions about the interrelatedness of physical movement, history and healing, particularly (but not only) in the context of African diasporic art and culture. 

Lewis’s work has been exhibited at The California African American Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Yale Center for British Art, and in Men of Change: Power, Triumph, Truth with the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services. 

Lewis’s work is in the collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, The Blanton Museum of Art, and other institutions. He lectured at Yale University as part of Claudia Rankine’s Racial Imaginary Institute.