Exhibitions

Before her academic career at Harvard, Lewis held curatorial positions at major institutions including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Tate Modern in London. Notable projects include Race, Love, and Labor (Center for Photography at Woodstock), Vision & Justice: The Art of Citizenship (Harvard Art Museums), and I Am Seen…Therefore, I Am, a show she co-curated with Henry Louis Gates Jr. that paired 19th-century African American daguerreotypes with contemporary artworks by Sir Isaac Julien (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art). Lewis's upcoming exhibition, If Emmett Till Lived: Freedom on American Ground (Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago) honors Till and the history born of his sacrifice, inviting a probing examination of the current state of American life.