Shoshanna Weinberger
Shoshanna Weinberger Bio:Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Weinberger received her MFA from Yale University School of Art, 2003 and BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1995. Living and working in Newark, NJ since 2006, Weinberger’s studio practice is rooted in an exploration of her Caribbean-American lineage and draws strongly on thecomplexity of heritage, invisible blackness and the psychology of peripheral identity. She considers herself a visual anthropologist, cataloging and surveying these experiences that ultimately question notions of beauty norms and identity through ongoing serial works that result in drawings, collage and sculptural installations. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in numerous invitational group and solo exhibitions that include a five-time participant of the Jamaica Biennial from 2006 to 2017 held in Kingston. Recent exhibitions: Allegories of the Invisible, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn (solo, 2019); Passing Between the Lines, Long Gallery, Harlem (solo, 2020); Born In Flames, curated by Jasmine Wahi, Bronx Museum (2021); Fragments of Perception, Wave Hill, Bronx (solo, 2021); If You Lived Here You’d Be Home By Now at Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY (2021); Emancipated Imaginaries, curated by AKAA (Also Known As Africa) at Manifesta, Lyon, France (2021); and Black Beauty, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA (2021). Recipient of a 2014 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant; 2015 Joan Mitchell Center, Artist Residency, New Orleans; 2016 Fellowship from the NJ State Council of the Arts; 2017-2018 Project for Empty Space, Artist Residency, Newark; 2019 Dawn Scott Memorial Award, from National Gallery of Jamaica; 2020 Newark Artist Accelerator Grant made possible by the Andy Warhol Foundation; appointed as the McMillan Stewart Endowed Chair in Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art, from 2019-2020 and 2020-2021; received a 2021 City of Newark Creative Catalyst Fund Grant; and September of 2021 she completed a mural commissioned by Four Corners Public Arts, Newark. Her work will be included in a forthcoming exhibition entitled Lux et Veritas at NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale this coming April 2022.Public collections include: New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ; The Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ; The Sagamore Collection, Miami, FL; Girls Club Collection, Fort Lauderdale, FL; The Margulies Collection, Miami, FL; Davidson College, Davidson, NC; The AC Kingston Collection, Kingston, JA; and Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
