Experience

• sacred Heart University

  Associate Professor

  Nathan Lewis is a California born painter and artist. He received his MFA from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He also studied at the Florence Academy of Art in Italy and in St. Petersburg, Russia, and received a BFA from Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts in Connecticut. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally in museums, galleries, and universities. His work is in private collections in NY, CT, MA, CA, OR, Germany, Russia, and India. His paintings have been on the cover of numerous books and journals, and his work was included in films shown at the Cannes and Sundance Film festivals. His work has been published and reviewed by the New York Times, the New York Press, International Artist, Fine Art Connoisseur, Art in New England, Big Red and Shiny, and the Boston Globe, among others. He has received multiple grants, including one from the Connecticut Commission of the Arts and a URCG grant to research painting in Belgium and France. He has been the recipient of multiple residencies and has given artists talks at institutions on both coasts of the US. He is currently represented by Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery.
  
  He is currently a tenured Associate Professor at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT, giving instruction in all levels of Painting and Drawing, Figure Drawing, as well as foundation level Design, and Art History. In addition he has taught studio art and art history courses abroad in Germany and Italy.