SHOSHANNA WEINBERGER
BIOGRAPHY
Born 1973, Kingston, Jamaica
Lives and works in Newark, New Jersey
EDUCATION
2003 MFA, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
1995 BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Garden of Daggers, Guttenberg Arts, Guttenberg , NJ
2024 Black, White + Gold, WCC Art Gallery, SUNY Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY
2021 Fragments of Perception, Sunroom Project Space, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
2020 Passing Between the Lines, Long Gallery, Harlem, New York, NY
2020 Bling Bound, curated by Emily Alesandrini, Unrealized Exhibitions, Artfare and Assembly Room, virtual
2019 Allegories of the Invisible, curated by Eileen Jeng Lynch, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Invisible Fruit: Stories of Camouflage from the Periphery, Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ
2018 The Otherness of Strangefruit, Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery, NJCU, Jersey City, NJ
2014 Potbelly Pin-Ups: Out Of Many One, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2012 Sometimes All of Me is not Enough, Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
2012 What Makes My Hottentot So Hot, Solo(s) Project House, Newark, NJ
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2020 Body Language, Two-Person Show with Helen Teede, Nomad Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2020 I Am Large, I Contain Multitudes, Two-Person Show with David Rios Ferreira, Mueller Gallery, Caldwell University, Caldwell, NJ
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Vampire::Mother, curated by Jasmine Wahi, Co-presented by Vortic Curated and Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2023-2024 45TH, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2023 Space in Time, Summer 2023 Artist Residency Exhibition, Guttenberg Arts, Guttenberg, NJ
2023 Rupture, Co-Curated by Gervais Marsh and Petrina Dacres, 2022 In Focus Fellows group exhibition, Jamaica Art Society, presented by Art at a Time Like This
2023 The Alchemists, curated by Seph Rodney and Donovan Johnson, Johnson Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2022-2023 Rinse & Repeat, Girls’ Club by the River, Fort Lauderdale, FL
2022-2023 Lux et Veritas, curated by Bonnie Clearwater, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL
2022 Material. Culture., curated by Jonell Logan, McColl Center, Charlotte, NC
2022 Generations: 30 Years of Woman Made Gallery, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2022 Figurative Painting from the Collection, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
2021 Black Beauty, curated by Tim Francis, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2021 If You Lived Here You’d Be Home By Now, Summer Exhibition, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
2021 Emancipated Imaginaries, AKAA (Also Known As Africa) at Manifesta, Lyon, France
2021 Born In Flames: Feminist Futures, curated by Jasmine Wahi, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY
2020-2021 Necessary Trouble: Civil Rights Era Photography and Contemporary Art from the Collection, curated by Sarah Michelle Rupert, Girls Club, Fort Lauderdale, FL
2020 Visualizing Social Isolation and Social Injustices through the Davidson College Art Collection From Pandemic to Protests, Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson College, Davidson, NC
2020 Art Off-Screen, window installation and online, Newark, NJ
2020 Glimpse, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ
2020 Abortion is Normal, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, New York, NY
2019–2020 People, Brick + Mortar Gallery, Easton, PA
2019 Women’s Narratives: Brick City Blues, curated by Atim Annette Oton, Newark Arts Fest, Newark, NJ
2019 Terrain Biennial, Landing Projects, Chicago, IL
2019 Secondary Sources, curated by Jackie Hoving and Norm Paris, Tiger Strikes Asteriod NY, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Summer Exhibition, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
2019 Let Me Tell You a Story, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
2018 Mirror Mirror, Paul Robeson Galleries, Newark, NJ
2017 Women Painting: Works from the collection of Francie Bishop and David Horvitz, curated by Michelle Weinberg and Sarah Michelle Rupert, Miami Dade College, Miami, FL
2017 X: Part I, SMAC Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa
2017 New Jersey Arts Annual: Special Edition 1966-2016, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
2017 Jamaica Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
2017 Pre, curated by Jason Tomme & Ana Wolovick, Black Ball Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Women in the World, Monmouth University, West Long Beach, NJ
2017 Abandoned Margins, curated by Janice Bond, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI
2016 Collage Effects: Art of the African Diaspora, University Galleries, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
2016 Pegasus and Mermaids, Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL
2016 Material Matters: Water, Pigment, and Light, Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson College, Davidson, NC
2016 Modern Heroics: 75 Years of African-American Expressionism, The Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ
2016 Jamaican Pulse: Art and Politics From Jamaica and the Diaspora, Royal West of England Academy (RWA), Bristol, England
2016 Carried Weight, curated by Jackie Milad, Delaware Center of Contemporary Art, Wilmington, MD
2016 Abandoned Margins, curated by Janice Bond, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2015 Lush, SMAC Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa
2015 Fabulous, curated by Jasmine Wahi, Shirin Gallery, New York, NY
2015 (Em) Power Dynamics: Exploring the Modes of Female Empowerment and Representation in America, Project For Empty Space, Newark, NJ
2015 Trek: Following Journeys, SMAC Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2015 Small Art Show, Gallery Shoshinkan, Nagano, Japan
2014 Metro 31, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ
2014 Jamaica Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
2014 Re-al-ized, curated by Schwanda Rountree, Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
2014 The New [New] Corpse, Sector 2337, Chicago, IL
2014 America Through Artists Eyes, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
2014 Mutations, Tiwani Contemporary, London, England
2014 All That Glitters, The Gateway Project, Newark, NJ
2013 Works for Collection, HiQo Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
2013 BIAC Martinique, 1st International Biennial, Fort-de-France, Martinique
2013 Slippery Slope, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2013 Empire, curated by Natika Soward, FiveMyles, Brooklyn, NY
2013 The Drawing Project, online exhibition, Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL
2013 34th Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition, Peoria, IL
2013 Natural Histories, curated by Nicole Smythe-Johnson and O’Neil Lawrence, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
2012 Jamaica Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
2012 Following the Line, curated by Carol Jazzar, Girls Club, Fort Lauderdale, FL
2012 Acts of Alterity, Nomad Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2012 Why I Draw, curated by Mayumi Sarai, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, NY
2011 Drawing Resurfaced, Stewart Center Gallery, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
2011 Spillage, curated by William Cordova, Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
2010 Metro 27, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ
2010 Reality + Artifice: NJ Annual Fine Arts, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
2009 The Exquisite Corpse: 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers, Newark, NJ
2009 Hysteria: Past Yet Present, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers, Newark, NJ
2008 Jamaica Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
2008 The New Authentics: Artists of the Post Jewish Generation, curated by Staci Boris, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
2007 The New Authentics: Artists of the Post Jewish Generation, curated by Staci Boris, Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL
2006 Jamaica Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
2006 Working Title, Gallery 51, Montclair, NJ
2005 New American Talent 18, Juror: Dominic Molon, Arthouse at the Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX
2004 5 x 7: On the Road, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2004 5 x 7: On the Road, The Old Jail Art Center, Albany, TX
2004 5 x 7: On the Road, Arthouse at the Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX
2003 New American Talent 18, Juror: Dominic Molon, Texas A&M, Commerce, TX
2003 Summer Jam, curated by Franklin Sirmans, Roebling Hall – Satellite Gallery, New York, NY
2003 New American Talent 18, Juror: Dominic Molon, Arthouse at the Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX
2003 Gilligan’s Island, curated by William Cordova, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2014 Mutation of Otherness, (Invited Juror, Group Show), Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
RESIDENCIES
2023 Guttenberg Arts, Space + Time Artist Residency, Guttenberg, NJ
2022 McColl Center, Artist-in-Residence, Charlotte, NC
2018 Project For Empty Space, Artist-in-Residence, Newark, NJ
2015 Joan Mitchell Center, Artist-in-Residence, New Orleans, LA
AWARDS + GRANTS + FELLOWSHIPS
2023-2024 Artist Fellow, New Jersey Futures, The Center for Cultural Power in partnership with Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation
2022-2023 In Focus Fellowship, Jamaica Art Society
2022 The City of Newark Creative Catalyst Fund Grant in partnership with Newark Arts
2022 Nancy Graves Foundation for Visual Arts Grant
2022 Newark Renewal Grant
2022 Fellowship, New Jersey State Council on the Arts
2021 The City of Newark Creative Catalyst Fund Grant in partnership with Newark Arts
2020 Newark Accelerator Grant, made possible by the Andy Warhol Foundation
2020 Sunroom Project Artist, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
2019 Dawn Scott Memorial Award, National Gallery of Jamaica, selected by Edward M. Gomez
2016 Fellowship, New Jersey State Council on the Arts
2014 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, New York, NY
2013 Bradley International Prize, 34th Bradley International Exhibition, Peoria, IL
2010 Metro 27 Prize, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ
2003 Carol Schlosberg Memorial Prize for Excellence in Painting, Yale University
2002 Gamblin Art Award, Yale School of Art, Yale University
2002 Norfolk Teaching Residency, Printmaking, Yale University Summer School of Art, Norfolk, CT
1993 Koichi Scholarship Recipient, Tokyo, Japan
1993 Sylvia Birch Halperin Scholarship, Chicago, IL
1990 Marie Walsh Sharpe Scholar, Artist Residency, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Colorado Springs, CO
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
2023–2024 Traveling Along Horizons, Art at Amtrak, NY Penn Station, Concourse (until January 2024)
2023 Journeying Together: from Sunrise to Sunset, NAC | Window Activation, Newark Housing Authority, 500 Broad St, Newark, NJ
2022 Measured Sunrise, Measured Sunset, New Terminal A Concourse, Newark Liberty International Airport
2021 Rising Up, 50 foot mural, Four Corner Public Arts, Treat Pl, Newark, NJ
INVITED TEACHING APPOINTMENTS/VISITING ARTIST
2022 – current, Adjunct Professor, Department of Art, Culture and Media, Rutgers University-Newark
2023 Visiting Artist, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
2019-2021 Visiting Artist/Critic, McMillan Stewart Endowed Chair in Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art (two-year)
2016 Visiting Artist, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
LECTURES + PANELS
2023 In-Focus Fellows Panel Discussion, Rupture exhibition, moderated by Ashley James, Art at a Time Like This in partnership with, Jamaica Art Society
2023 Artist Panel Discussion, Lux et Veritas, Bronx Museum
2023 Artist Panel Discussion, Making It Public, Forecast Public Art in partnership with NJ State Council on the Arts
2023 Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
2022 A.I.R. Artist Talk, Shoshanna Weinberger: Traversing the Periphery: Allegories of Through Abstraction, McColl Center
2022 Artist Talk: A Conversation with the Fall Artist-in-Residence, moderated by Jonell Logan, McColl Center
2022 Round Table Discussion with Shoshanna Weinberger, William Cordova and Mike Cloud, Lux et Veritas, NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale
2022 Artist Talk, Lux et Veritas, NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale
2021 Artist Panel Discussion, Black Consumer Initiative in partnership with Newark Arts Festival
2021 Artist Talk, If You Lived Here You’d Be Home By Now, Wassaic Project
2021 Artist Talk, Fragments of Perception, Wave Hill
2021 Visiting Artist Lecture, Spring Semester, Mary Institute College of Art
2020 Artist Talk with Shoshanna Weinberger and Anthony Goicolea, Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson College
2020 Gallery Talk with Shoshanna Weinberger and David Rios Ferreira, Mueller Gallery, Caldwell University
2020 Artist Panel Discussion, moderated by Jeanne Brasile, Undercurrent, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Visiting Artist Lecture, Fall Semester, Mary Institute College of Art
2020 Visiting Artist Lecture, Spring Semester, Mary Institute College of Art
2019 Visiting Artist Lecture, Fall Semester, Mary Institute College of Art
2018 In Conversation with Jasmine Wahi, Project for Empty Space
2018 Artist Panel, Black History Month Celebration, Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery, NJCU
2018 Artist Talk, The Otherness of Strangefruit, Solo Exhibition, Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery, NJCU
2016 Artist Talk, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, MD
2016 Visiting Artist Lecture, Oregon State University, Corvallis
2016 In Conversation with Tricia Bloom, The Newark Museum of Art
2014 Artist Talk, Tiwani Contemporary, London, England
2014 Artist Panel Discussion with Shoshanna Weinberger, Mary Ann Strandell and Willie Cole, Gateway Project
2013 Artist Talk, HiQo Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY + PRESS
Spielman, Ralph: A Rail Treasure: Curated Art at Moynihan Hall and Penn Sta., West Side Spirit, Nov. 16, 2023
Sutton, Benjamin: Afro-futurist portal opens at New York’s Penn Station, The Art Newspaper, Aug. 25, 2023
Golata, Justine: Penn Station’s Newest Art Installations Breathe Life Into Moynihan Train Hall, Secret NYC, Aug. 7, 2023
Skena Culgan, Rossilynne: Penn Station’s new artwork will transport you to another dimension, TimeOut NY, Aug. 4, 2023
Marsh, Gervais: Beyond Tropical: New Approaches to Jamaican Contemporary Art, Susie Wong Presents, 2023
Bursk, Danielle: How a New Trend in Public Art is Creating More Opportunities for Artists, Art Pride New Jersey, Mar. 15, 2023
Clearwater, Bonnie, Lux et Veritas: Pushing a white wall, NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Skira Milan, p. 100-103, 2022
Jones, Marian: Majuscule, Ain’t I A Woman: On the Literature of White Feminism, (image), Issue 8, April 2022
Delgado, Gabriel: Venice Fort Lauderdale, The Art of Civility: Follow the Light and the Truth at NSU Museum Fort Lauderdale, p. 169-171, Summer Issue 2022
Rodney, Seph: Hyperallergic, Breathing More Deeply with Art in the Hudson River Valley, Sept. 5, 2021
Barry, Louis: Hyperallergic, Ecological Art Infused by Memoir and Identity, June 5, 2021
Shakur, Fayemi: A Womb of Violet: Volume II Blackness, Resistance and Being (cover), 2021
Powell, Richard J., Black Beauty, exhibition catalogue, p. 5, p. 12, Arthur Roger Gallery, 2021
Hernandez, Jillian: Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment, Duke, p. 209-223, 2020
Battaglia, Andy: ARTnews, Touchstones, Art That Stirs Creativity, Nov. 9, 2020
MoDA Mag: An Interview with Susanne Fredricks aka Suzie Wong Presents, Issue 7, p. 83-86, (images), Oct. 31, 2019
Jeng Lynch, Eileen: Shoshanna Weinberger: Allegories of the Invisible, exhibition catalogue, Neumeraki, 2019
Delman, Peter: Let Me Tell You a Story, Nieuw Art: Art on the Jersey Side, May 24, 2019
Newark Arts: Dedication to Memory, Volume 1, Fall Issue, page 65, 2018
Lambert, Audra: Ante Magazine, Raise Your Voice: In Praise of Artist Shoshanna Weinberger, May 10, 2018
Anania, Billy: Asbury Park Press, Newark artist showing Strangefruit at New Jersey City University, Feb. 22, 2018
Mirror Mirror, Paul Robeson Gallery, Rutgers, catalogue, 2018
Women Painting: Works from the collection of Francie Bishop Good & David Horvitz, Girls Club, catalogue, 2017
Oxford American, Fall Issue, page 15 (image), 2017
Bischoff, Dan: Star-Ledger, From existential realism to black identity: The best of NJ art in one exhibit, April 11, 2017
Jamaica Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Biennial catalogue, 2017
Material Matters: Water, Pigment, and Light, exhibition catalogue, Davidson College, 2016
Modern Heroics: 75 Years of African-American Expressionism, exhibition catalogue, The Newark Museum of Art, 2016
Jamaican Pulse, exhibition catalogue, Royal West of England Academy, p. 80-81, 2016
A Women’s Thing, Winter Issue, page 3 (image), 2015
Art(south) Africa Magazine, (cover), First Issue, September 2015
The New [New] Corpse, exhibition catalogue, Green Lantern Press, Chicago, p. 8, 2015,
Poetry Magazine, (cover), Poetry Foundation Magazine, February, 2015
Jamaica Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Biennial catalogue, 2014
Foumberg, Jason: Artist to Watch: Shoshanna Weinberger, chicagomag.com, May 29, 2014
Coussonnet, Clelia: 1st BIAC Martinique: Exclusive Interview of Shoshanna Weinberger, Jamaican-American artist, Uprising News Contemporary Caribbean Art, Dec. 7, 2013
Jamaica Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Biennial catalogue, 2012
Richardson, Jared: Attack of the Boogeywoman: Visualizing Black Women’s Grotesquerie in Afrofuturism, Art Papers, Nov/Dec, p. 19- 22, 2012
Following the Line, Girls Club, catalogue, 2012
Joseph, Ralina L.: Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatto to the Exceptional Multiracial, (cover), Duke University Press, Nov. 2012
Dempster, Heike: Emerging… Shoshanna Weinberger, wonderlandmagazine.com, June 13, 2012
Arroyo, Eddie: Shoshanna Weinberger: Carol Jazzar, artisabout.com, April 30, 2012
Hood, John: NiteTalk, NBCMiami.com, (blog). April 25, 2012
Milo, Paul: A Hot Exhibit review, newarknj.patch.com, online, Feb. 15, 2012
Drawing Resuraced, Stewart Center Gallery, Purdue University Galleries, exhibition catalogue, 2011
Tschida, Anne: Traces of What Was and What Makes Us Who We Are, Knightarts.org, online, Mar. 20. 2011
Hood, John: NiteTalk, NBCMiami.com, (blog). Mar. 17, 2011
Bischoff, Dan: Metro 27 Exhibition Review, Star-Ledger, Nov. 7, 2010
Reality + Artifice: NJ Arts Annual Fine Arts, New Jersey State Museum, catalogue, 2010
Zeaman, John: Exquisite Chaos Robeson Galleries Mark 30 Years with Sprawling art project, Star Ledger, Nov. 23, 2009
The Exquisite Corpse: 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers, catalogue, p. 28, p. 39, 2009
Bell, Anonda: Hysteria: Past Yet Present, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers, catalogue, p. 86-87, 2009
Zeek, zeekmagazine.com, online, Winter/Spring 2008
Jamaica Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Biennial catalogue, 2008
Foumberg, Jason: The New Authentics Review, Frieze Magazine, August 8, 2008
Vider, Stephen: Cultural Evolution, nextbook.org, July 2, 2008
Artner, Alan G.: The New Authentics Art Review, Chicago Tribune, Tempo Section, Dec. 6, 2007
Gunn, Dan: Authentically Yours, New City, Dec. 6, 2007
Weinberg, Lauren: Art Stars of David, Time Out Chicago, Nov 29-Dec 5, 2007
Boris, Staci: The New Authentics: Artists of the post-Jewish Generation, Spertus Museum, p.124-127, 2007
Jamaica Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Biennial catalogue, 2006
New American Talent 18, curated and selected by Dominic Molon, Art House at Jones Center, Austin, Texas, catalogue, p. 6, p. 44, 2003
Sunday, Margaret: Shape-shifting: Transformations in the Art of the Book, Margaret Sunday and University of Northern Colorado Book Art Slides Project, catalogue, p. 40, 1996
PUBLISHED ARTICLES
“Intersectional Nomad,” Critics Page, Brooklyn Rail, December 2020/Jan 2021
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Davison Collage, Davison, NC
Margulies Collection, Miami, FL
Sagamore Collection, Miami, FL
Girls Club Collection, Fort Lauderdale, FL
The AC Kingston Collection, Kingston, JA
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
Bryn Mawr College Special Collections, PA
Paul Robeson Galleries, The Rutgers University Newark Collection, Newark, NJ