Charisse Pearlina Weston

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Born in Houston and based in Brooklyn, Charisse Pearlina Weston is a conceptual artist and writer whose work contends with the dynamic interplay of violence and intimacy through repetition, enfoldment, and concealment. She received her MFA from the University of California-Irvine and is an alumna of the Whitney Museum of Art’s Independent Study Program. She has recently participated in group and solo exhibitions at the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College of Art, Smack Mellon and the Queens Museum. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from Artadia, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Dedalus Foundation, the Harpo Foundation, the Graham Foundation, and Bard Graduate Center. In 2021, she received the Museum of Art and Design’s Burke Prize. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Artsy, Art Reviews and Art in America. Currently, Weston is artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem. As a Hodder Fellow she will continue her research examining Black interior life, resistance, and technologies of surveillance; specifically she will begin a new body of work focused on zombie laws, their omnipresence, and what their threat means for the possibilities of Black intimate futures.

Exhibition: of [a] tomorrow: lighter than air, stronger than whiskey, cheaper than dust — Queens Museum, NYC, October 2022 – March 2023

Work by Charisse Pearlina Weston included in 2024 Whitney Biennial — March 20-August 11, 2024 at Whitney Museum of American Art