Peter Wayne LEWIS
PETER WAYNE LEWIS (c) was born in Kingston, Jamaica West Indies and immigrated to the United States in 1962 where his parents made their home in Sacramento, California. He received his MASTER OF ARTS in painting in 1979 from SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY in California and became an American citizen in 1983. He is a Tenured Professor of Painting at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, Massachusetts and the former Chairman of Fine Art 2D Department. He has exhibited extensively in Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, USA, Asia. Recent exhibitions includes a survey of paintings produced in his studio in Beijing, China at MOCA-Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami curated by Babacar MBow, UCCA-Ullens Center of Contemporary Art Beijing, China 798 Art District Curated by Philip Tinari. China Art Museum Shanghai, China. Seeing Jazz at the Smithsonian Museum Washington DC; Art Document at Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art Sapporo, Japan; Otaru Municipal Art Museum Otaru, Japan; America Haus Stuttgart Germany; Museum of Modern Art Dominican Republic; Miami Art Museum; New Orleans Museum of Art; Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum, Muira Museum Matsuyama, Japan; Joslyn Museum; National Gallery of Art Kingston, Jamaica; Yassine Art Center Dakar Senegal; Triton Museum of Art Santa Clara California; San Jose Museum of Art San Jose, Ca.; Monterey Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He is in numerous public and private collections at home and abroad. He currently resides in South Orange, New Jersey, Boston Massachusetts and Beijing, China.