Lewis deSoto (born 1954 in San Bernardino, California) is an American artist of Cahuilla Native American ancestry. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Director Lawrence Rinder writes: "deSoto has explored a wide variety of media in his efforts to express the nuances of various social histories and worldwide cosmologies." DeSoto is based in Napa, California and New York City and has been a professor of photography at San Francisco State University since 1988.