Day & Night Projects is an artist-run gallery near downtown Atlanta. We aim to provide opportunities for artists to exhibit in a non-commercial setting; to become a nexus for the Atlanta artist community; and to exchange exhibitions with galleries around the world.
Montenez Lowery
Co-Director
Montenez Lowery is a multidisciplinary Black American artist and writer based in Atlanta, Georgia. Interested in materiality, his practice explores colonial infrastructures and systems of power. He is a graduate of Georgia State Photo program and currently Coordinator of Special Events at the High Museum. Recently a recipient of the IDEA Capital Grant, 2026 Nexus Fund, and has received honors including the 2026-2027 Creatives Project Fellowship and is a 2026 Advocacy Fellow from the National Center for Human and Civil Rights. Find more at @montenez.l.
Makeda Jean Lewis-Kinuthia
Co-Director
Lewis-Kinuthia is an Atlanta-based artist, casual documentarian, synthesizer, and fried-fish-eater. She is a Georgia State graduate, a former MINT gallery administrator, and current Program Manager at Atlanta Center for Photography. Day & Night followers will remember her solo exhibition and love was a burning fence about my house from October 2024. Makeda’s art writing and other projects can be found here: makedalewis.com.
William Downs
Co-Director, founding member
William Downs, born in Greenville, South Carolina, earned a BFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Atlanta College of Art, and a multidisciplinary MFA from the Mount Royal School of Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Downs has received awards from the Mount Royal School of Art Award, Artadia, the Working Artist Project at MOCA GA, and The Kennedy Family Artist and Scholar Residency at Univ. of South Florida.
Downs has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts at the University of Alabama at Birmingham: The Martin Museum of Art (Waco,TX), Band of Vices Gallery (Los Angeles, CA) Derek Eller Gallery (NYC), MOCA GA (Atlanta, GA) and the Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis (St. Louis, MO). His works have been included in group shows at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, whitespace, and Sandler Hudson Gallery (Atlanta, GA), the African American Museum (Philadelphia, PA), and the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT). Downs’s art is in the collections of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; Clark Atlanta University Art Museum and the High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA), the Microsoft Collection (Seattle, WA), the Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, AL), and the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC). Downs continues to captivate audiences with his deep exploration of form, line, and movement .
Find more at: williamedowns.com
Steven L. Anderson
Co-Director, founding member
Steven is an artist, curator, and arts organizer working throughout the US since 1998. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States since 1996. His artworks are found in the Microsoft Art Collection, the Tim & Lauren Schrager Collection, and in collections of Fulton County Public Arts, Coca-Cola Inc., Emory University Hospitals, the National Park Service, and others. Anderson’s sketchbooks reside in the permanent collection of the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University.
Steven is a recipient of a 2025-26 MOCA GA Working Artist Project fellowship, a 2023 Idea Capital grant, and is a two-time winner of the Artist Project Grant from the City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs. Upcoming residencies include the Hambidge Center, (Rabun Gap, GA), and Elf School of the Arts, (Hayesville, NC). Previous residencies include Uncool Artist Residency (Brooklyn, NY), Yes We Cannibal (Baton Rouge, LA), Blue Heron Nature Preserve (Atlanta), Château d’Orquevaux (Orquevaux, France) and others. Anderson has been a Studio Artist at Atlanta Contemporary, and a WonderRoot Walthall Artist Fellow.
Steven’s artwork can be found through Momentum Gallery in Asheville, NC and Kai Lin Art in Atlanta. Visit stevenlanderson.com or Instagram @stevenl.anderson.
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