Born in Kingston, Jamaica, and raised in Montclair, NJ, Shoshanna Weinberger received her MFA from Yale School of Art in 2003 and her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995. She has lived and worked in Newark, NJ, since 2006, where her studio practice explores her Afro-Caribbean-American lineage through abstraction.
For over two decades, Weinberger has exhibited widely, with highlights including the National Gallery of Jamaica; The Newark Museum of Art; The Bronx Museum; New Jersey State Museum; Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK; Wave Hill; and NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale.
Her numerous awards include the 2014 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant; 2016 and 2022 Fellowships from the NJ State Council of the Arts; the 2020 Newark Artist Accelerator Grant (Andy Warhol Foundation); awarded a 2021 and 2024 City of Newark Creative Catalyst Fund Grant; the 2022 Nancy Graves Foundation for Visual Artists Grant; the 2022 Newark Arts Renewal Grant; the 2022–2023 In Focus Fellowship, Jamaica Art Society; and the 2023–2024 NJ Futures Artist Fellowship (The Center for Cultural Power & the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation).
Weinberger has participated in artist residencies including the 2015 Joan Mitchell Center (New Orleans); the 2018 Project for Empty Space (Newark); the 2022 McColl Center (Charlotte, NC); and the 2023 Guttenberg Arts (NJ).
Her public commissions include 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).
Weinberger’s work is held in permanent collections including: AC Kingston Collection, Jamaica; Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA; Davidson College, Davidson, NC; Girls Club Collection, Fort Lauderdale; LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, LA; Margulies Collection, Miami; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ; Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ; Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University-Newark; and Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE.
She is a studio member at Project for Empty Space, Newark, Adjunct Professor at Rutgers University-Newark, and currently serves as Chairman of the Board at Guttenberg Arts.