Sarah Lewis, Writer/Curator

Sarah Elizabeth Lewis graduated from Harvard University in 2001 with a BA in Social Studies and History of Art and Architecture, she was a Rhodes Scholar finalist and was awarded the Marshall Scholarship for graduate study in England. She received her MPhil at Oxford University in Economic and Social History in 2003 and wrote her dissertation on the impact of the traditional African Art market on contemporary works from West Africa, specifically from Mali. She then received an MA at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2004 and focused her dissertation on the work of Ellen Gallagher, Wangechi Mutu, and Senam Okudzeto. She is currently completing her Ph.D. at Yale University. Her essays have been featured in publications for The Smithsonian Institute, The Guggenheim Berlin, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Phaidon, Art in America and the Venice Biennial (2007). She has worked at The Museum of Modern Art, New York in the Department of Painting and Sculpture as well as the Department of Photography, and prior to that at the Tate Modern. She is the curator for the 2008 SITE Santa Fe exhibition, “Drawing for Projection: New Animated Forms.” She serves on the Harvard University Board of Directors and is a Director of Expressive Rights, a program of TruthAIDS. Ms. Lewis was appointed critic in painting/printmaking at Yale faculty in 2007.