Ligia Lewis works as an artist, choreographer, dancer, and director. She presents her work on stage, in a gallery or museum, through film or exhibition format. For Lewis, choreography is the movement of ideas across bodies meticulously conceived, crafted, and directed— a political act, a writing against the grain of the racial regime of representationalism and (black) erasure. Lewis's works are often marked by physical and emotional intensities by which comedy and tragedy collide.

She recently finished works including: "A Plot / A Scandal" (2022), “Still Not Still" (2021), "deader than dead" (2020). In Fall 23’, Lewis opened her first solo exhibition, "study now steady" at the Center for Arts, Research and Alliances in NYC (US), which includes the newly commissioned film “A Plot, A Scandal” (2023) departing from the stage work of the same name. A survey of her stage works was presented at HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin, DE) entitled “Complaint, A Lyric.” She was a participating artist in the 2024 Whitney Biennial.