Shannon T. Lewis Canadian, b. 1981
Shannon T. Lewis (b. 1981, Toronto) is a Berlin-based Canadian artist of Caribbean descent, whose surrealist paintings form a fantastical world, depicting bizarre imagery alongside uncanny landscapes. The collaged figures storytell and form new structures, between spaces, classes and geographies, fully immersing her audience.
Her practice examines performance and the objects we naturally collect throughout time. Figures attempt to place themselves in luxe interiors, but their limbs move in and out of the space, never fitting in the composition. These evasive movements are about mobility, intersecting with: intimacy, sexuality, gender, race, immigration, class and social climbing.
Lewis has exhibited in Canada, the U.S., Trinidad, Switzerland, England and Germany. She has a Bachelor of Arts from OCADU in Toronto and a Masters of Fine Arts from Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2025, Lewis was invited as a guest professor for the fall semester at the Universität der Künste in Berlin (Germany) to teach the painting course “Dramaturgy of the Object” in the Bühnebild department.
