Lenka Clayton (UK) and Phillip Andrew Lewis (USA) have been working together since they met at Headlands Center for the Arts in 2017. Their collaborative projects include an installation that redirected ten months of an art museum’s trash into its public galleries, an ongoing video call and response conversation between one rock and one stone, opening an art gallery that is always closed, an 8ft long bronze plaque marking the history of their studio over the last 600 million years, and a full-scale, working lighthouse that is encapsulated within a dilapidated home in Pittsburgh. Lenka and Phillip live and work in Pittsburgh, PA.
Their solo and collaborative work has been supported by Creative Capital, Headlands Center for the Arts, Center for Creative Photography, Foundation for Contemporary Art in New York, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, The Heinz Foundation, The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Warhol Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Rothschild Foundation, and Art Matters. They have shown at The Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum in New York, The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, MU Eindhoven, The Broad Museum in Michigan, LifeSpace Gallery in Dundee, and The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. They are current Lenore Tawney Fellows for 2026.
From 2005 to 2018, Phillip founded, built, and ran Medicine Factory, an exhibition venue and affordable artist studio program in Memphis, Tennessee. He also started and built out the gallery space The Apothecary, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Lenka was a co-founder and curator of Luna International, a gallery and studio program in Berlin Germany from 1999 to 2004. She is also the founder of An Artist Residency in Motherhood, a self-directed, open-source artist residency program that takes place inside the homes and lives of artists who are also parents. There are currently over 1,200 artists-in-residence in 79 countries.
Co-hosted by the Institute of Contemporary Art.
Funded through a generous gift from Dr. Edward M. Friedman '08 and Carole J. Friedman, in honor of Sculpture Professor Emeritus Gary Ambrose.