Grace Weaver

Grace Weaver has created a painterly universe of the modern Western world. Her works can be read as social commentary of city life and its inhabitants. Although her protaganists often seem out of place, the scenarios stand in as markers of the mundane – whether working from home, pursuing outdoor recreation or spending leisure time at bars. With an inward gaze, their bodies moving clumsily in space, they seem overwhelmed by the complexities of everyday life. Combining color and story-telling, her works offer vast possibilities of interpretation and depict the vividness of modern experience.

Grace Weaver graduated with an MFA from the Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond in 2015. She has been awarded with grants and residencies including a VCUARTS Dean’s Graduate Research Grant (2014), Artist-in-Residence at DakshinaChitra, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IMD (2012) and the Burlington City Arts’ ArtLab residency, Burlington, VT (2012).

Solo exhibitions include: Painters and Portraits, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, CN (2023); Laundry, Soy Capitán, Berlin, DE (2023); Neues Museum, Nürnberg, DE (2023); O.K., Kunstpalais Erlangen, DE (2019); Little Sister; Oldenburger Kunstverein, DE (2019); Super Busy, Soy Capitán, Berlin, DE (2017); Pedestrian, Kunstverein Reutlingen, DE (2017) and Skinny Latte, Soy Capitán, Berlin, DE (2015).

She has also taken in part in several group shows: Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, DE (2024); Yuz Museum, Shanghai, CN (2023); 24h, BRAUNSFELDER, in collaboration with Super Super Markt, Cologne, DE (2022); How To & Know How, Neue Galerie Gladbeck, DE (2022); Auszeit. Von Pausen und Momenten des Aufbruchs, Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, DE (2021); Wolken in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Oldenburger Kunstverein, DE (2020) and No Man is an Island – The Satanic Verses, Aros Museum, Aarhus, DK (2016).

Her work is featured in the collections of Yuz Museum, Shanghai, CN; Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, DE; Philara Collection, Düsseldorf, DE; 8smicka Collection, Humpolec, CZ; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, US; FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, FR; ARoS Museum, Aarhus, DK and the Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, US.

Works

Exhibitions

Press

Artist Grace Weaver: "I'm drawing in painting." by Marc-Christoph Wagner

Frei In Form by Marlene Sørensen

Die It-Girls von nebenan by Evelyn Vogel

Die schönsten Ausstellungen im September by Tim Ackermann

INTERVIEW: Grace Weaver at Galerie Max Hetzler, London, 2022

Vier Fragen an Grace Weaver by Laura Helena Wurth

Grace Weaver: Trashscapes by Eddy Frankel

Interview

Grace Weaver’s Jubilant Paintings Cause a Stir at James Cohan Gallery by Jacoba Urist

The Bold New Mode of Artist Grace Weaver by Marley Marius

Critics’ Picks by Louisa Elderton

Interior Motives: Grace Weaver’s ‘Droop’ at Soy Capitán

Mach mal ’ne Pause: Das Kunstmuseum Ravensburg lädt ein zur 'Auszeit'

Figurative and Abstract Paintings Brighten NY Galleries

Grace Weaver’s Portraits of Urban Anxiety by Daniel Penny

Artist Grace Weaver’s Buoyant, Sensual Paintings of People Moving Through Everyday Life Are on View at James Cohan—See Them Here by Caroline Goldstein

In Bold Figurative Paintings, Grace Weaver Captures the Mood of Her Generation by Alina Cohan

Interview: Grace Weaver – The Big Picture by Evan Pricco

Grace Weaver Paints About Skin Care And Avocado Toast

Grace Weaver zeigt bei Soy Capitán die Selbstzweifel der Millenials

Mensch, Grace by Hendrik Lakeberg

A Pioneering Feminist Artist’s Studio Gets Revived in New York by M. H. Miller

Six Views of America by Alice Pimrose

Grace Weaver. Weingummikunst by Emma Stenger

Neue Malerei by Sebastian Frenzel (PDF upon request)

Artist Grace Weaver creates a world in which the familiar and psychedelic collide by Lucia Bourton

Unlimited Freedom by Maria Chiara Valacchi

These 20 Female Artists Are Pushing Figurative Painting Forward by Casey Lesser

9 Emerging Artists to Discover at Art Cologne by Andrew M. Goldstein

Art Cologne 2016 feature

The 8 Best Booths at Art Cologne by Alexander Forbes

Grace Weaver’s Skinny Latte at Soy Capitán by Kate Lewin

Exhibition // Grace Weaver’s Skinny Latte at Soy Capitán by Göksu Kunak

Grace Weaver at Soy Capitán

Grace Weaver by Amie Cunat

Grace Weaver - Studio Visit by Zoë Harris

First New York solo exhibition of Grace Weaver opens at Thierry-Goldberg Gallery

Publications

No. 006 – The Street Grace Weaver

Grace Weaver • 11 Women • Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König • Cologne, 2023

Grace Weaver • Steps • Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König • Cologne, 2023

How (Not) to Fit In • Villa Merkel • Esslingen, DE 2022

24h: Özgür Kar, Cécile Lempert, Michel Majerus, Louis Mason, Joanna Piotrowska, Ser Serpas, Grace Weaver, Angharad Williams • Super Super Markt and BRAUNSFELDER • Cologne, 2022

Grace Weaver • Kunstpalais Erlangen • Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 2020

Grace Weaver • Auszeit: Von Pausen und Momenten des Aufbruchs • Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, 2021

Grace Weaver • My Art Book of Friendship by Shana Gozansky • Phaidon Press, New York, 2021