Public Lecture: Charisse Weston

Cranbrook Academy of Art’s 2024-25 Public Lecture Series is free and open to the public at Cranbrook’s deSalle Auditorium. Cranbrook Art Museum is open late and free to all on Thursdays. Please arrive early to explore their current exhibitions.

Charisse Weston is an alumna of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program. She is a conceptual artist and writer whose work emerges from deep material investigations of the symbolic and literal curls, layerings, and collapses of space, poetics, and the autobiographical. She contends with the dynamic interplay of violence and intimacy through repetition, enfoldment, and concealment.

Weston was named a Studio Museum Harlem 2022–23 Artist in Residence, a 2023 Jerome Hill Fellow, and a 2023 Hodder Fellow at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, for the 2023–24 academic year. She has exhibited in groups at notable venues such as the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston (2020), Jack Shainman Gallery (2022, 2023), Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College (2022), and MoMA PS1 (2023). She has mounted solo exhibitions at Project Row Houses (2014, 2015), Recess (2021), the Moody Center of the Arts at Rice University (2021), and the Queens Museum (2022). She also participated in the Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing, curated by Meg Onli and Chrissie Iles at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has received awards and fellowships from the Artadia Fund for the Arts, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Dedalus Foundation, the Harpo Foundation, the Graham Foundation, and the Corning Museum of Glass, among others. She was a 2021 Artist Fellow at the Museum of Art and Design, where she was also awarded the 2021 Burke Prize. She was a Paul and Irene Hollister Fields of the Future Fellow at Bard Graduate in 2022. Her hybrid manuscript, Awaiting, was published by Ugly Duckling Press in March 2023.

When: Thursday, 3 October 2024 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time.