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 ever- yday life. Combining color and story-telling, her works offer vast possibilities of interpreta- tion and depict the vividness of modern experience.

Grace Weaver graduated with an MFA from the Virginia Commonwealth University, Rich- mond in 2015. She has been awarded with grants and residencies including a VCUARTS De- an’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 Er- langen, DE (2019); Little Sister; Oldenburger Kunstverein, DE (2019); Super Busy, Soy Capi- tán, 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); Aus- zeit. Von Pausen und Momenten des Aufbruchs, Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, DE (2021); Wol- ken 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 Düssel- dorf, 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 Mu- seum, Aarhus, DK and the Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, US.

Grace Weaver, born 1989 in Vermont, US, lives and works in Berlin, DE.

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Grace Weaver

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Works

Press

Publications

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

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

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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

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Grace Weaver • Kunstpalais Erlangen • Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 2020

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

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

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