Current exhibitions

On Air, 820 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA until February 16th 2025 (extended)

A Sudden Gust of Wind, Throughout Pittsburgh Cultural District, until 03/31/2025

Darkhouse Lighthouse, Permanent Public Artwork, Pittsburgh, PA

Historic Site, Permanent Public Artwork, Pittsburgh, PA

Gallery Closed, Curatorial project, Pittsburgh, PA

Recent exhibitions

Sonic Presence (and Absence), Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA

A Number of Tragedies, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO

Hot Corners, Amy Yoes (Screening of Tender Together) MASSMoCA, MA

The Museum Collects Itself, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA

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About

Lenka Clayton (b. Derbyshire, UK) and Phillip Andrew Lewis (b. Memphis, Tennessee) have worked together since 2017. They run their collaborative studio practice out of a former incline station in Pittsburgh, PA.

They first met at the Headlands Center for the Arts in California. They began their collaboration with a project called The Gifts, in which they improvised creative responses to a series of objects that were wrapped and gifted to each other over the course of a week. They later taught The Gifts as a class at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.

Their collective projects include an ongoing video-based call and response conversation between one rock and one stone, a public gallery that is always closed, an 8ft long bronze plaque marking the history of their studio building over the last 600 million years, and the construction of a full-scale working lighthouse encapsulated within a burnt out house; a permanent public artwork located in Troy Hill. 

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, Black Cube Nomadic Art Museum, The Opportunity Fund, 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 Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, The Broad Museum in Michigan, LifeSpace Gallery in Dundee, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. 

Their work is held in public and private collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art NY, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art PA, Fidelity Investments Collection, The Fabric Workshop and Museum PA, SFMoMA CA, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts CA, Front International OH, Kadist SF & Paris, Mount Holyoke Art Museum MA, and Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany among others.