Nate Lewis was born and raised outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the town of Beaver Falls. Prior to pursuing a career in art, he earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Virginia Commonwealth University and practiced critical-care nursing in Washington, D.C.–area hospitals for nine years. Lewis’s first artistic pursuit was playing the violin in 2008, followed by drawing in 2010. In 2017, he moved to New York City. Lewis’s work has been exhibited at the California African American Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Yale Center for British Art, and is in the public collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Blanton Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum, among others.