Lewis Watts is an American photographer, archivist curator, visual historian, author, lecturer, and Professor Emeritus of Art at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and other institutions for over 40 years. He works has been exhibited at and has collections at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Cité de la Musique (Paris, France), The Berkeley Museum, Autograph London, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans, LA), The Oakland Museum of California, The Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase, NY), The Amistad Center for Art and Culture (Hartford, CT), Light Work (Syracuse, NY), The Paul Sack Collection (San Francisco, CA).