About

Ann Lewis is a multidisciplinary activist artist who uses painting, installation, social practice, and participatory performance in public spaces to explore societal-scale harm prevention through feminist pedagogy, community, and myth. Her work speculates on a future bereft of violence through communal creative healing sessions, the embodied contemplation of definitive autonomy, and nonviolent modes of creation.  Ann has created public art in many cities, such as New York, San Antonio, Detroit, Boston, and Pittsburgh.

Her most recent work, Our Monument, explores preventative means to eliminate sexual trauma through restoration, empathy, community building, and monumental public sculpture. She seeks to create for this project through non-violent means of production and development through the research and use of invasive species and renewable materials.

After receiving her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin, her career began in the street art world of New York City and has evolved into large-scale public works. Her mural See Her received an Americans for the Arts 2018 Public Art Network Award. The New York Historical Society Museum and the US Library of Congress have acquired Ann’s art. It has been discussed in Hyperallergic, Artnet, The LA Times, and The Guardian. She has exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the US and abroad, including shows at Petzel Gallery in New York, Seyhoun Gallery in Tehran, Iran,and the Obama White House. She received her MFA in Digital + Media from the Rhode sland School of Design (RISD) in the spring of 2023.

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