Grace Weaver
In the midst of the ever-changing and often corporate-produced archetypes of the modern woman, the paintings and drawings of Grace Weaver (b.1989) tell honest stories which are in equal parts revealing and introspective. The artist often works with the concept of the watched female – sometimes joined by a male onlooker or captured in a net of social interactions – navigating the complexities of urban life. Like a psychological archive of daily activities, Weaver’s work mainly chronicles female experiences, in both the private and public realm.
Painting only from a physical scale that matches or supersedes her own, Weaver imagines figures which are long-limbed and heavily layered with colour, both confronting and relating to the viewer. Abounding with art historical references spanning from Mannerism to Rococo, Weaver’s compositions revive and challenge the tradition of genre painting in contemporary form. Communicating themes of the mundane, the melancholic and the emotional, Weaver takes that which is personal, transforming it into universally recognisable visual narratives.
‘…Grace Weaver closely examines her own surroundings, her generation, our time. She is interested in that which is typical of the now, but after all she creates images like never before. For all the smartphones, to-go cups, avocado toasts, baby slings, and other fashion accessories, hers is a painting of subtle gestures, poses, and gazes, in which everything is lifted out of time and space by flat and boldly colored backgrounds, as in the golden grounds of early Christian icons.’
A. Deiss and G. Wagenfeld-Pleister, ‘Allegories of the Now: Introducing Grace Weaver’, in Grace Weaver, exh. cat., Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen; Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg; Bielefeld: Kerber Verlag, 2020, p. 8
Image: Untitled (Head), 2022, oil on linen, 150.5 x 150.5 cm.; 59 1/4 x 59 1/4 in. Photo: def image
Artist Talk
Selected Works
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
The yellow light at 6pm:
Remembering, envisioning, sensing landscape
Darren Almond, Georg Baselitz, Glenn Brown, André Butzer, Sarah Crowner, Carroll Dunham, Hedwig Eberle, Ida Ekblad, Günther Förg, Katharina Grosse, Alex Israel, Melike Kara, Alex Katz, Friedrich Kunath, Beth Letain, Jake Longstreth, Tal R, David Salle, Julian Schnabel, David Schutter, Sean Scully, Ben Sledsens, Mònica Subidé, Vivian Suter, Liliane Tomasko, Tursic & Mille, Rinus Van de Velde, Grace Weaver, Emma Webster, Toby Ziegler
curated by Christian Malycha
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
Biography
VITA
1989
Born in Vermont, USA
2010
Study abroad, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne
2011
BA, University of Vermont, Burlington
2012
Dakshina Chitra, Artist-in-Residence, Chennai
Burlington City Arts, ArtLab Resident, Burlington
2014
VCUarts Dean’s Graduate Research Grant, University of Vermont, Burlington
2015
MFA, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus
FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou
Kunstpalast Düsseldorf
Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus
Yuz Foundation, Shanghai
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Neues Museum, Nuremberg
Indoor Paintings
Hetzler Marfa
2022
Trash-Scapes
Galerie Max Hetzler, London (catalogue)
2021
11 Women
James Cohan, New York (catalogue)
DROOP
Soy Capitán, Berlin (catalogue)
2020
Steps
James Cohan, New York (catalogue)
2019
Little Sister
Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg (catalogue)
O.K.
Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen (catalogue)
2018
Best Life
James Cohan, New York
All the Girls
Aike Gallery, Shanghai
2017
No Hard Feelings
Koppe Astner, Glasgow
Pedestrian
Kunstverein Reutlingen, Reutlingen
Super Busy
Soy Capitán, Berlin
2015
Skinny Latte
Soy Capitán, Berlin
Teenage Dream
Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York
2012
The Interior Landscape
Dakshina Chitra, Chennai
2011
Thin-Skinned
Space Gallery, Burlington
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
The yellow light at 6pm:
Remembering, envisioning, sensing landscape, curated by Christian Malycha
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Next Door: A Yuz Foundation Collection
Yuz Musuem, Shanghai
die Welt is noch auf einen Abend mein
Galerie Erhardt Florez, Madrid
2022
24h (in collaboration with Super Super Markt)
Braunsfelder, Cologne
How To & Know-How
Neue Galerie Gladbeck
K60
Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin
How (Not) To Fit In. Adolescence as a Metaphor
Villa Merkel, Esslingen
dark things we tell each other
Miettinen Collection / Salon Dahlmann, Berlin
The Innerworld of the Outerworld of the Innerworld
Soy Capitán, Berlin
The Most Dangerous Game
Spurs Gallery, Beijing
2021
First Date
Jo Van De Loo x Soy Capitán, Various Others, Munich
Can You See The Real Me
Van Horn, Dusseldorf
Time-out. Of Breaks and Moments of Awakening
Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Ravensburg (catalogue)
2020
Wolken in der zeitgenössischen Kunst – Flüchtig, Zeichenhaft, Bedrohlich
Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg
BED AND CLOCK, MOON AND BEACH: Edvard Munch
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue)
Fragmented Bodies
Albertz Benda, New York
Portraits Forever
Espace Tajan, Paris
2019
James Cohan: Twenty Years
James Cohan, New York
The Self, the work, the world
Fabian Lang, Zurich
Living and Real
Kapp Kapp Gallery, Philadelphia
2018
I’m large, I contain multitudes
Galerie Wedding, Berlin
Girls 3000
Galerie Petra Martinetz, Cologne
Killing Me Softly
Miettinen Collection, Berlin
To Our Fellow Artists and Poets Who Are Confused About Which Direction To Go
Lundgren Gallery, Palma de Mallorca
2017
Reinventing the Figure
Monica de Cardeñas Gallery, Zouz
Marching to the Beat
Jesicca Silverman Gallery, San Francisco
2016
No Man is an Island – The Satanic Verses
ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus
Characters
V1 Gallery, Copenhagen
Surface Tension
Simone Subal, New York
2015
VCU MFA Thesis Exhibition
Anderson Gallery, Richmond
Southern Hospitality
University of Georgia, Georgia
Berg, Matthams, Self & Weaver
Thierry Goldberg, New York
2014
MASH-UP
Page Bond Gallery, Richmond
2013
NEXT
Page Bond Gallery, Richmond
Once They Were
Burlington City Arts, Burlington
Blind Date
VCU FAB Gallery, Richmond
2012
Like, Whatever
Burlington City Arts, Burlington
30/30 Print Project
Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Burlington
2011
Double Cousin
Colburn Gallery, University of Vermont, Burlington
Paper
215 College Gallery, Burlington
2010
The 5th International Student Triennial
Marmara University, Istanbul
Artofice
Windsor Terrace, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Drawn
215 College Gallery, Burlington
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London 2022 (Ed.): Grace Weaver: TRASH-SCAPES, 2022
Kunstpalais Erlangen (Eds.): Grace Weaver, Bielefeld, 2020
Videos
Publications
Grace Weaver: TRASH-SCAPES
Exhibition Poster
2022
€ 10.00
Grace Weaver: TRASH-SCAPES
Exhibition Poster
2022
€ 10.00
Grace Weaver: TRASH-SCAPES
Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London 2022
With an in-depth conversation between Grace Weaver and Christian Malycha
€ 30.00
Selected Press
Frankfurter Allgemeine December 2022
Time Out November 2022
The-Art-Form 2022
Vogue January 2022
Artsy May 2020
Nylon Magazine September 2018
