Barton Lewis is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker and photographer whose current work centers around features and fixtures of the street and subway transformed by street artists and organic decay. Most recently, his photography showed in an exhibit at Gallery 85, in the lobby of Google’s New York headquarters, in The Indian Photo Festival, in Hyderabad, and at the Barcelona Foto Biennale. His work was featured in the May-June 2023 issue of The Harvard Business Review. A monograph of his work will be published by Daylight Books in Spring 2024. Before turning to photography in 2018, Barton made films about natural light and the urban landscape. His films have been shown in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Szczecin, Poland and elsewhere in the US and Europe.
Solo Show
2010 - Millennium Film Workshop, NY, NY
Group Shows
2023 - “Memory and Motion," Gallery 85, NY, NY
2022 - “Winter Wonderland”, Front Room Gallery, Hudson, NY
2022 - “Artrepreneur: Curated”, The New York Artists Equity Association, New York, NY
2019 - “Street Shooting Around the World”, The Los Angeles Center of Photography
2017 - “Open (C)all: Truth,” BRIC, Brooklyn, NY
2017 - “Seeking Space 2017,” Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2013 - "Utopie distribuée," Galerie White Project, Paris, France
2012 - Larcade Gallery, Paris, France
2012 - StreeTVideOart, Art TV, Paris, France
Awards
2022 - Honorable Mention, Street Photography-Series, 17th Pollux Awards
Publications
2024 - UP magazine
2023 - The Harvard Business Review (May-Jun)
Fairs & Festivals
2022 - Indian Photo Festival, Hyderabad, India
2022 - Barcelona Foto Biennale, Barcelona, Spain
2022 - Affordable Art Fair, NY, NY
2021 - The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY
2020 - stARTup Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
2019 - Clio Art Fair, NY, NY
2014 - Szczecin European Film Festival, Szczecin, Poland
2012 - Portland Experimental Film Festival, Portland, OR
Education
B.A., Columbia University
B.M., The Juilliard School