Tony Lewis was born in 1986 in Los Angeles. He currently lives and works in Chicago.

Lewis’ practice focuses on the relationship between semiotics and language to confront social and political topics such as race, power, communication, and labour. Lewis creates drawings using graphite, pencil and paper, mediums the artist uses to trace and develop abstract narratives and reflections on the notion of the gestural. By pushing the boundaries of drawing and the possibilities of abstraction, he expands the use of the “material” of language.

Lewis' work is in the permanent collections of The Zabludowicz Collection, London; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; among others. Lewis participated the 2014 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.