self portrait 35mm color film photo shadow and light on my face

Kathryn Lewis

Multimedia interdisciplinary artist in NYC

Songwriting, composition, performance, recording and mixing, photography, video and film, painting, murals, sculpture, drawing, design, installation

Played with sound, light, and form. Recorded music. Made art. Studied in Germany. Wrote music for and performed with a theater company. Toured to schools and juvenile detention centers. Moved to NYC. Studied Theater. Joined a performance art electronic rock band and played at CBGBs. Danced. Wrote songs. Studied Art History and Archaeology. Looked at the past. Moved to Greece. Looked at the present. Moved back to NYC. Discovering the future with sound, music, light, form, and breath.

Exhibitions:

Hudson Hall, 2022 (video, drawing, graphic score, music performance and sound production)

With Drips, 2021 (painting)

Little Island, 2021 (music)

CASH Gallery, 2020 (multi-media)

Opry City Stage, 2019 (music)

Live Muzic Mondayz, ongoing since 2019 (videos, music, sound)

Thompson Street Medicine Show, ongoing since 2018 (music, sound)

Bands: Country City, Billygoat, Sheriff and The Deputy, Kat & Friends, The Botsband, Batalá

Awards and Honors:

Phi Beta Kappa

Salutatorian

Museum Fellowship, Paestum Museum, Italy

Graduate Teaching Fellow at Columbia University

Doctoral Fellowship GSAS Columbia University

Judith Lee Stronach Scholarship, Columbia University

Kress Fellowship, CUNY's Greek Institute

Senior Thesis Prize, Columbia U, Dept. of Art History and Archaeology

Senior Thesis Travel Grant, Columbia University

Stigler Award in Anthropology

Book Prize, Columbia U, Dept. of Germanic Languages

Committee on Instruction (Student Rep), Columbia University

Board of Directors, Walking the Dog Theater

Honor Society, Columbia University

Country Music Association Grant

Education:

Hudson Hall, Improvisation/Composition Workshop with Bobby Previte

Art Students’ League, Mixed Media

Columbia University, BA, MA, Art History and Archaeology, Salutatorian, Phi Beta Kappa

HB Studios, Acting

NYU Tisch, Ensemble Theater

Temple University, Theater and Design

Waldorf / Steiner School (Kimberton, PA) (arts and farming-based curriculum), 1st-12th

You can support my ongoing work in Music, Sound, and Visual Arts by making a tax-deductible donation here!