Joe Lewis (Joseph S. Lewis III; born 1953 in New York City) is a

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non-media specific American artist and educator. Lewis was co-founding director of

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in New York, where he curated and mounted numerous exhibitions and performance events. He also early on has been associated with

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and ABC No Rio

Life and work

Lewis received his bachelor’s in 1975 from

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, and then his M.F.A. in 1989 from

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. He served as a faculty member at

California Institute of the Arts The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is a private art university in Santa Clarita, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the US created specifically for students of both ...

(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

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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. Joseph S. Lewis III named dean of Claire Trevor School of the Arts
''UCI Today'', University of California, Irvine. He became the dean of Claire Trevor School of the Arts at University of California Irvine in March, 2010 until resigning from his post after being accused of violating sexual harassment policy in October 2014. He remains on the faculty of UCI. Currently, he is president of the Noah Purifoy Foundation located in Joshua Tree, California.

Collections

*Museum of Modern Art, New York

Awards, commissions & fellowships

*2017 Paradise AIR, Matsudo City, Chiba, Japan *2016 Fragrance Research Fellow, Soley Organics, Reykjavík, Iceland *2015 Fljótstunga Residency Grant, Iceland *2011 Named ''Orange County’s Hot 25'', OC Metro Magazine *2011 Curatorial Grant, ''Let’s Get Lost: Polaroids form the Coast''

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, Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles *2008 Inducted into

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Honor Society *2008 Deutsche Bank Fellow Photography Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts *1998 Listed in Who’s Who in American Art *1996 Award of Excellence, Design Annual, Public Service, Communication Arts *1995 Commission, California Towers Project, Riverside, CA *1993

National Endowment for the Arts The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal ...

, Exhibitions Grant, Hillwood Museum, Long Island University, NY *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 *1988-89

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Fellowship *1987 Listed in ''Outstanding Young Men of America'' *1983 National Endowment for the Arts, Urban Studies Fellow *1982 National Endowment for the Arts, Conceptual Art, Fellowship C.A.P.S., Multi-Media Fellowship *1976 American Music Fellow, Salzburg Seminar, Austria *1975 Thomas J. Watson Fellowship Academy of American Poets Award

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External links

Joe Lewis Art

Joe Lewis Resume at James Fuentes
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Life and work

Collections

Awards, commissions & fellowships

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