Marion Lewis

ideas person, leading voice in conceptual and performance art in Canada, strategic promoter of Canadian culture

Where Marion will lead, many will soon follow. When she picks up the phone, she gets results. Over the decades she helped shape and popularize Canadian art production and was a co creator of Canada’s first artist-run centre, known as A Space.

This '60's media savvy group brought loft culture, conceptualism, video production and performance, good coffee, vintage clothes as art, jazz and free form music, poetry readings, and social gatherings of all types to the attention of national radio, print and television media.

In the 70's Marion invented and refined the concept of the single camera video reporter and Moses Znaimer adopted its revolutionary style as the signature brand for CityTV personalities.

In the '80's Marion Lewis was a programmer at the Toronto International Film Festival and produced and promoted the largest video art festival ever held in Canada.

Her work in video is acknowledged as ground breaking and includes the rock 'n' roll feminist troupe 'Videocabaret and the Hummer Sisters'. Marion Lewis is currently showing at the Art Gallery of Ontario and continues to promote the distinct Canadian point of view as a promoter, performer and producer.

For the new century, Marion skills set was enhanced by a focus on the personal promotion of people and events. From fabled music producer Bob Ezrin to Elvis tribute festivals and from young filmmakers to avant guard media festivals,  Marion is able to stream the information into the world wide media environment.

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