Shoshanna Weinberger
Shoshanna Weinberger was born in Kingston, Jamaica, raised in Montclair, NJ, Weinberger received her MFA from Yale University School of Art, 2003 and BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Weinberger’s studio practice is rooted in an exploration of her Caribbean-American lineage. She considers herself a visual anthropologist, cataloging and surveying these experiences that ultimately question notions of identity through ongoing serial works that result in drawings, collage and sculptural installations.
Exhibiting over two decades, highlights include: National Gallery of Jamaica; The Newark Museum of Art; Bronx Museum; Wave Hill; Spertus Museum, Chicago; and NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale. Awarded: 2014 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant; 2016 Fellowship, NJ State Council of the Arts; 2020 Newark Artist Accelerator Grant made possible by Andy Warhol Foundation; 2021 City of Newark Creative Catalyst Fund; 2022 Fellowship, NJ State Council of the Arts; 2022 Nancy Graves Foundation Grant; 2022 Newark Arts Renewal Grant; 2022-2023 In Focus Fellow, Jamaica Art Society; 2023-2024 NJ Futures Fellow in partnership with Center for Cultural Power and Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. She has several Public Art Commissions: Newark Arts Four Corners Public, Newark, NJ, 2021; New Terminal A, Newark Liberty International Airport, 2022; Art at Amtrak, NY Penn Station, 2023; and Newark Artist Collaboration/Audible, Newark, NJ, 2024. Attended Art Residencies: 2015 Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA; 2018 Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ;
2022 McColl Center, Charlotte, NC; 2023 Guttenberg Arts, Guttenberg, NJ.
Her work included in public collections: NJ State Museum; Newark Museum of Art; Girls Club-Fort Lauderdale; Margulies Collection-Miami; Davidson College-NC; AC Kingston Collection-Jamaica; Sheldon Museum of Art; Bryn Mawr College; Paul Robeson Galleries-Rutgers; LSU Museum of Art.
