Lewis Z. Liu, born in Hubei Province, China, grew up in Short Hills, NJ, is an international artist based in London, Boston, and New York. Most recently, he has focused on combining physics and visual arts in a conceptually rigorous and aesthetically interesting way to produce cutting edge avant-garde artwork. Having taught himself perspective drawing at the age of three, Lewis was trained in oil painting and pencil drawing under Chinese artist Zhou Yong in his teenage years.

Lewis was the first in history to receive an AB in Joint Visual and Environmental Studies (Studio Art) and Physics at Harvard University, where he graduated cum laude with Highest Honors in 2008. In his four years at Harvard, he has also earned an Advanced Standing Masters degree in Physics where he focused on Quantum Field Theory, General Relativity, and partial differential equations. Lewis studied art with Professors Stephen Prina and Annette Lemieux where he focused on integrating physics into the artistic system. In physics, he worked with Professor Gerald Gabrielse at the ATRAP Collaboration at CERN in Geneva on anti-hydrogen production for CPT Violation tests and at Harvard on precise fine structure constant measurements with superconducting magnets. His work with both the physics and art departments resulted in a summa standing undergraduate thesis titled Explorations in Classical Magnetism and Contemporary Art – “Amplified Mapping of Dipole Moments Through Magnetoresistance Sensors, Analog Differentiation Techniques and Ferromagnetic Fluids” and “Experiments in Painting with Magnetism”. This work, an exploration in the studio/laboratory and science/aesthetic spaces, has achieved many awards, including the prestigious Rudolf Arhiem Prize for the most significant interdisciplinary work.

Lewis realized that the techniques he has discovered combining physics and art also has significant commercialization potential and has partnered with New York based fashion designer Baruch Shemtov in a joint venture to make luxury ties and fabric using a patented silkscreen technique that employs physical magnetic fields, a process he adapted from his magnetic field paintings.

In addition to his passion in physics, art, and fashion, Lewis is also a full-time consultant for the leading global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company’s London Office.