Mark Lewis (born Canada, 1958) makes video works that highlight and reflect on the cinematic history of film itself. He is concerned with film’s potential to rework the picturesque tradition and pushes the viewer to see beyond the clichés of cinema’s visual history.

Film and Video Umbrella first worked with Mark Lewis in 2000 on the large-scale projection work ‘Peeping Tom’. This toured the UK before being shown at the National Gallery of Canada in 2001. In 2004 ‘Imitation of Life’ was a subsequent commission. This was comprised of a pair of single-channel video works and toured internationally. Film and Video Umbrella has also worked with the artist on two books, ‘Mark Lewis’ and ‘Mark Lewis Films 1995-2000’.

Mark Lewis has exhibited his films internationally, with solo exhibitions at the Canadian Pavilion of the 53rd Venice Biennale; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna; FACT, Liverpool; and BFI Southbank, London. His work has been included in group shows at Whitstable Biennial; CCA, Wattis Institute, San Francisco; the 3rd Berlin Biennial; and Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna. The artist is represented by Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver and Toronto and galerie serge le borgne, Paris.