CAL AKARA LEWIS

(b. 1991, Bradford, UK)  is a contemporary artist inquiring into the layers of the mind.
After graduating from Nottingham Trent University in Design for Film (2013), he exhibited multidisciplinary artworks for the UK underground music & arts scene. Since 2022 he's been living nomadically,  immersed in consciousness studies and art practice—sharing works on linen, murals and the collective inquiry 'Akara Studio' with global communities.
Cal's painting practice liberates subconscious memories, desires and thought patterns through surrealist montaging and mark-making informed by meditative phenomena. The works celebrate the search for spiritual evolution amongst the absurdity of contemporary life and offer a reflection on the visual aesthetic of the collective inner experience.
Cal is currently in the UK.



C.V

solo shows

Harmonious Muck, Assembly House, Leeds, UK, 2021
Fortunes, the Number Gallery, London, UK, 2019

residencies

SVAAD, Saantiniketan, India, 2024
Art Ichol, Maihar, India, 2022

mural commissions

Azahar foundation, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 2025
The Jungle View, Mirissa, Sri Lanka, 2025
Waste Warriors NGO, Rishikesh, India, 2023
Dr Alone, Pushkar, Rajasthan, India, 2022
Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds, UK, 2022
Assembly House, Leeds, UK, 2021
Number 90, London, UK, 2019
Shelter housing charity, London, UK, 2019