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Sound then Vision" , photo, sculpture, audio installation, 2017

Sound then Vision Installation, Yan Huang Museum, Beijing, 2018

It's a Grand World After All, Unit #1 Gallery, Geely University Installation, Beijing

Grand World, Tito's Cave series, 2016

"Spectacle" Nanchang Museum, Nanchang, 2018

Mr. Roach & Mr. Chaplin, single channel video, 2016

Counter Posto, single channel video, 2016

"(Doug) Lewis' artwork explores relational environments between social and subconscious spaces using a constantly evolving variety of mediums that often include video, photo, audio, sculpture, performance and installation media". - artist, Andy Denzler, 2006

Currently my artwork and research is focused on a physiological interest that occurs between “Sound and Vision”.  It is an exploration between uncertain  parallels and
differences between  everyday life and cinematic perspectives of it - the phenomena
between the delay and decay of what we hear, see and experience. My choice of mediums include photography, sculpture, audio-video, sculpture, paint and performance.
All of my artwork is research-based.  I have been living between China and Canada for the past twelve years, traveling extensively. Travel provides me with a nomadic point of view a well a constant source of questioning. Among others, how public versus private spaces function within societies and countries. My transitory life exists between cultures, languages, geographies, and socio-political landscapes. Concepts inform my art practice;  the most prevalent one is with me trying to remain a constant stranger no matter where I am. Where ever I  travel I try to maintain a character or mode of being a lost and confused tourist. One lost in new or strange places. I believe that this gives me type of creative device that helps me navigate new cultural or geographic places. Theorist Marc Arnaud: wrote "I am the place that I am". He defines it as where we are plays a large part in who we become.  Both my concepts and media choices remain in constant flux, and I try to reflect where I am while being in the process of the process of becoming it. My work has extensively in Canada. As a curator, I have worked for museums and in Canada, China, and galleries in the UK, China, and further abroad. My focus on independent projects has been to explore a concept I call third practice: artist/curator, place/gallery and concept/context forms. In public museums, my interests lean toward ethnographic and societal explorations.

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Rain Dogs, Hong Kong, 2018

"Lewis blurs cultural anthropology (ethnography) and art, and calibrates things materially by throwing in (and sharing) his perspective" -artist, curator, Gilles Hebert, 2017

Screenplay Series, video, photo, performance, 2012

Rickshaw Guys, digital photo series

D-Bond, 2015

Digital print and performance, "Write me in Beijing", rice paper, ink, 2016

Divisions series, #1, digital photo, 2008

Screening the Screen, digital photo, 2015

Antonion's Revenge, Video installation, 2008

Divisions series, #2, digital photo, 2009

Mobile phone art ...phone cams are like compasses that show where and who we are.

Sračok & Pöhlmann is a project founded in Susak, Croatia, in 2006, by Herman Sračok and Rupert Pöhlmann. They support leading contemporary artists and are working in an international landscape, developing exhibition spaces in London, Croatia and New York. contact: Sračok & Pöhlmann

As a curator
my practice is in two distinct parts: a "museum" approach as well as something I call "3rd practice". The 3rd practice is a hybrid collaboration between selected artists and myself, in a system where we produce together through a system of "call-and-response". My curatorial practice is influenced by my art practice in that my focus is to locate social and theoretical dynamics; researching artists and histories that aim to locate the "present". I am interested in how the global affects the local, and how the local effects the global.

In|Outsource International Project, Art Museum Nanjing (AMNUA), 2015

Jus' Toyin Around , "3rd Practice", was an international Exhibition held in Winnipeg, Canada, July 2017. It featured 12 artists from around the world, two local poets ( Grant Guy, Glen Johnson) and myself on bass guitar.

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