Jonathan Lewis received a BA in history of art from Cambridge University in 1993 and worked in various museums and galleries until embarking upon a full-time career as an artist in 2000. Lewis’s practice focuses on branding of all kinds, ranging from cigarettes and soup cans to museums and artists themselves, and attempts to marry narcissistic irreverence with a rigorous aesthetic sensibility.
Pictures from his See Candy series have been exhibited at Bonni Benrubi Gallery in New York, featured on the cover of Blind Spot magazine, and collected by George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, NY. Work from a new series, Designer Labels, are part of a fall 2010 exhibition entitled Spectra: New Abstract Photography, curated by Lisa Kurzner for the Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh, PA.
