Mary Weatherford

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Mary Weatherford ’84 is an artist, born in 1963 in Ojai, California. She received a B.A. from Princeton University in 1984, was a Helena Rubinstein Fellow of the Whitney Independent Study Program in 1985, and received an M.F.A. from the Milton Avery School of Fine Arts at Bard College in 2006. Weatherford was the subject of a career survey show “Canyon—Daisy—Eden” that opened February 2020 at the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York; later traveling to SITE Santa Fe in April 2021. In December 2020, “Neon Paintings,” an exhibition highlighting a selection of pivotal pieces from the last decade, opened at the Aspen Art Museum in Colorado. Other museum exhibitions include “NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection,” Miami (2015); and “The Forever Now,” Museum of Modern Art, New York (2014). Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; the Rubell Family Collection, Miami; the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; the Mead Art Museum of Amherst College; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and the K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong. Weatherford’s solo show entitled "The Flaying of Marsyas" will open in April 2022 at the Museo di Palazzo Grimani in Venice, Italy in conjunction with the 59th Biennale di Venezia. Her gallery exhibitions have included “Mountains Mud Prisms Air,” David Kordansky, Los Angeles, (2021-2022); “Train Yards,” Gagosian, London, (2020); “I’ve Seen Gray Whales Go By,” Gagosian, New York, (2018); “like the land loves the sea,” David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles (2017); and “Easter,” Debs & Co., New York (1998). Weatherford was the recipient of the 2021 Aspen Award for Art. She is represented by David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles and worldwide by Gagosian. Weatherford lives and works in Los Angeles.

PAW Feature Story: ‘I’m Painting the Experience of a Moment’ — After gathering force for years, Mary Weatherford ’84 is now an art star | Princeton Alumni Weekly, April 2024