Phi Kappa Phi, Thomas J. Watson Fellowship Academy of American Poets Award, National Endowment for the Arts, Design Annual Award of Excellence for Public Service Communication Arts
Joe Lewis (Joseph S. Lewis III; born 1953 in New York City) is a post-conceptual non-media specific American artist, musician, writer and art educator.[1] Lewis was co-founding director of Fashion Moda in New York, where he curated and mounted numerous exhibitions and performance events.[2] He also early on has been associated with Colab and ABC No Rio[3][4] and appeared in the 1983 seminal American hip hop film Wild Style.
1992 Commission, Art for Rail Transit, METRO/BLUE LINE, LACTC, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Lead Artist, Commission, Chandler Outdoor Gallery Project, 4/5ths of a mile of murals produced in the Chandler Corridor, 14 artists and a local middle school, North Hollywood Community Redevelopment Agency, CA
1991 Maryland State Arts Council, Fellowship, New Genres
1990 Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, Artist in Residence Grant
1989–90 Commission, Mayor's Advisory Committee on Art and Culture, Baltimore, MD
^Alan W. Moore, Artists' Collectives: Focus on New York, 1975-2000 in Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945, Blake Stimson & Gregory Sholette, (eds) University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2007, pp. 193–221
^Max Schumann (ed.) A Book about Colab (and Related Activities)Printed Matter, Inc, 2016: pp.9-11
Carlo McCormick, The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene, 1974–1984, Princeton University Press, 2006.
Alan W. Moore and Marc Miller, eds. ABC No Rio Dinero: The Story of a Lower East Side Art Gallery New York: ABC No Rio with Collaborative Projects, 1985.