Pearlina Weston, Charisse (b. 1988)
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(b. 1988)
Brooklyn, NY
Charisse Pearlina Weston (b. 1988, Houston, TX; lives and works in Brooklyn) is a conceptual artist and writer whose work contends with the dynamic interplay of violence and intimacy through repetition, enfoldment, and concealment. She holds a BA in Art History from the University of North Texas, a MSc in Modern Art: History, Curating and Criticism from the University of Edinburgh’s Edinburgh College of Art and a MFA in Studio Art, with Critical Theory emphasis, from the University of California, Irvine. She is an alumna of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program (2019-2020).
She has exhibited in group shows at Contemporary Art Museum, Houston (2020), Jack Shainman Gallery’s The School (2022), and the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College (2022). She exhibited in solo exhibitions at Abrons Art Center (2020), Project Row Houses (2014, 2015), Recess (2021), the Moody Center of the Arts at Rice University (2021) and the Queens Museum (2022).
She has received awards and fellowships from Artadia Fund for the Arts (Houston, 2015), the Dallas Museum of Art (2014), the Dedalus Foundation (MFA Fellowship, 2019), the Harpo Foundation (2021) and the Graham Foundation (2021) and the Museum of Art and Design (Artist Fellow, 2021) and Bard Graduate Center (2022), among others. In 2021, she received the Museum of Art and Design (MAD)’s 2021 Burke Prize. Writings on her work have appeared in The New York Times, Artsy, Art Reviews, and Art in America. She is a 2022/23 artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem. She will be a Hodder Fellow at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University for 2023-24 academic year.
www.charisseweston.com/