Syd Lewis is a Vancouver-based visual artist currently pursuing a BFA at the University of British Columbia. His photographic practice is primarily concerned with sensuality, intimacy, longing, and memory. He explores the temporal characteristics and dynamic functional possibilities of analog photography to create expressionistic records of feelings and glimmers of memories. Furthermore, he aims to capture the elegance and intimacy in queer life through his photographs, which, in contrast to more hedonistic depictions of queer culture in contemporary art, are created solely in order to demonstrate and illustrate love and connectivity.

In addition to his photographic practice, Syd’s works in collage and painting were influenced by Abstract Expressionism, Lyrical Abstraction, and Automatism.  He is more interested in the sensuous and the intuitive rather than the didactic in art. In 2023, Syd began supplementing his post-secondary art education at the Art Students League of New York, where he has had the opportunity to learn from accomplished artists including Pat Lipsky and Larry Poons, who have greatly inspired his thinking with regard to the evocation of feeling through art.