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Shoshanna Weinberger (b. Kingston, Jamaica 1973) is a visual artist whose artwork is informed by her Caribbean-American background, as well as ideas around sexuality, gender, and cultural identity. She lives and works in Newark, New Jersey.

Early Life and Education
Shoshanna Weinberger was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1973. Her family moved to Montclair, NJ, when she was a child. Weinberger received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in 1995 and a MFA from Yale School of Art, Yale University in 2003.

Art
In her work, she locates herself among a number of antiquated stereotypes. Adolescent memory and current events are sources of inspiration. Weinberger renders her female muses as excessive, sexualized, some passive and others dominant that question notions of beauty.

The drawings identify with beauty both physiologically and politically. Weinberger references adolescent female awkwardness, growing-up in a society engrossed with a warped view of beauty. Her work includes images of malformed and decapitated bodies, with cornrow braids, Afros, unkept locks and pigtails; mutations of multiple-mouths, breasts and buttocks. The artist refers to the figures as modern-day Hottentots. The Hottentot form is found in prepubescent pageant toddlers, strippers, Hollywood-icons, West-Indian Dancehall performers, extreme plastic surgery and in the artist herself.

Weinberger’s series “Pin-ups” features abstracted renditions of the black female body that combine history, cultural expectations, body image and cultural expectations. Her seemingly abstract images are actually a grotesque essence derived from the global vision of what the black female body is.

R1: http://superselected.com/art-the-black-female-body-deconstructed-by-shoshanna-weinberger/

Residencies, Awards, and Collections

 * 2012- Newark Museum Permanent Collection
 * 2014-

Selected Exhibitions + Collections
Solo exhibitions:

Group exhibitions:

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EDUCATION

2003    Master of Fine Arts, Yale School of Art. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

1995    Bachelor of Fine Arts, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

AWARDS, GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES

2017     Project for Empty Space, Artist-in-Residence, Gateway Project Spaces, Newark NJ

2016    Fellowship, New Jersey State Council on the Arts

2015    Joan Mitchell Center, Artist-in-Residence, New Orleans, LA

2014    Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant

2013    First Prize Award, 34th Bradley International Print and Drawing

Exhibition

2010    Honorable Mention Prize, Metro 27, City Without Walls Gallery

2003    Carol Schlosberg Memorial Prize

2002    Gamblin Art Award

2002    Norfolk Teaching Residency, Yale School of Art, Norfolk, CT

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2014    Potbelly Pin-Ups: Out  Of Many One, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago

2012    Sometimes All of Me is not Enough, Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art,

Miami, FL

2012   What Makes My Hottentot so Hot, Solo(s) Project House, Newark, NJ

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017    Jamaica Biennial,  National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica

             Pre, Black Ball Projects, Brooklyn, NY

             Womenin the World, Monmouth University, West Long Beach, NJ

            Adandoned Margins, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Gramd Rapids, MI

2016
 * Collage Effects: Art of the African Diaspora,  University Galleries, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
 * Pegasus and Mermaids, Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL
 * Material Matters: Water, Pigment, and Light, Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson College, Davidson, NJ

2015    2014    2013    2012                    Why I Draw, ISE Cultural Foundation, NYC
 * Modern Heroics: 75 Years of African-American Expressionism,  The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
 * Jamaican Pulse,  Royal West of England Academy (RWA), Bristol, UK
 * Carried Weight, Delaware Center of Contemporary Art, Wilmington, MD
 * Abandoned Margins, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
 * Lush,  SMAC Gallery, Stellenboch, South Africa
 * Fabulous curated by Jasmine Wahi, Shirin Gallery, New York, NY
 * (Em) Power Dynamics, The Gateway Project, Newark, NJ
 * Trek: Following Journeys, SMAC Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
 * Small Art Show, Gallery Shoshinkan, Nagano, Japan
 * Metro 31, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ
 * Jamaica Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
 * Re-al-ized, Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
 * The New [New] Corpse, Sector 2337, Chicago, IL
 * America Through Artists Eyes, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
 * Mutations, Tiwani Contemporary, London, England
 * All That Glitters, The Gateway Project, Newark, NJ
 * Works for Collection, HiQo Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
 * BIAC Martinique, 1st International Biennial, Fort-de-France, Martinique
 * Slippery  Slope, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
 * Empire, FiveMyles, Brooklyn, NY
 * The Drawing Project, online exhibition, Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL
 * 34th Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition, Peoria, IL
 * Natural Histories, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
 * Jamaica Biennal, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
 * Following the Line, Girls Club, Fort Lauderdale, FL
 * Acts of Alterity, Nomad Gallery,  Brussels, Belgium

2011    Drawing Resurfaced, Stewart Center Gallery, Purdue University,

West Lafayette, IN

             Spillage, Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art, Miami, FL

2010    Metro 27, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ

             Reality + Artifice: NJ Annual Fine Arts, New Jersey State Museum,

Trenton, NJ

2009    Hysteria: Past Yet Present, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers, Newark

2008    Jamaica Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston

2007    The  New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation,

Spertus Museum, Chicago and Rose Art Museum, Massachusetts

2006      Jamaica Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica

2003    New American Talent 18, Art House at Jones Center, Texas

PUBLICATIONS

2017      Jamaican Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Biennial Catalogue

2016      Modern Heroics, exhibition catalogue, the Newark Museum

Jamaican Pulse, exhibition catalogue, Royal West of England Academy

2015    A Women’s Thing, Winter Issue,  page 3 (image)

Art (south) Africia Magazine, (cover), First Issue, September

The New [New] Corpse, exhibition catalogue, Green Lantern Press,

Chicago

Poetry Magazine,  (cover), Poetry Foundation Magazine, February

2014      Jamaican Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Biennial Catalogue

Arntzenius, Linda: America, through Artists' Eyes. Princeton Magazine,

             Holiday 2014, 48-49

Foumberg, Jason: Artist to Watch: Shoshanna Weinberger,

             chicagomag.com, May 29, 2014

2013    AALR Mixed Race Initiative, The Asian American Literary Review,

(artwork) Fall 2013

Coussonnet, Clelia: 1st BIAC Martinique: Exclusive Interview of

Shoshanna Weinberger, Jamaican-American artist.

Uprising News Contemporary Caribbean Art. (blog). Dec. 7, 2013

2013 BIAC Biennial International. catalogue, 2013

34 Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition, catalogue

2012    Freyman, Falyn: Following the Line, Broward Palm Beach New Times,

Nov. 15, 2012

Richardson, Jared: Attack of the Boogeywoman: Visualizing Black

Women’s Grotesquerie in Afrofuturism, Art Papers, Nov/Dec,

2012, p. 19- 22

             Jamaican Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Biennial Catalogue

Following the Line, Girls Club, catalogue 2012

Joseph, Ralina L.: Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium

Mulatto to the Exceptional Multiracial,  (cover), Duke University Press,

Nov. 2012

Dempster, Heike: Emerging... Shoshanna Weinberger,

wonderlandmagazine.com, June 13, 2012

Arroyo, Eddie: Shoshanna Weinberger: Carol Jazzar, artisabout.com,

April 30, 2012

Hood, John: Shoshanna Weinberger to Show All, NBCMiami.com,

NiteTalk (blog). April. 25, 2012

Milo, Paul: A Hot Exhibit, newarknj.patch.com, February 15, 2012

2011    Drawing Resurfaced, Stewart Center Gallery, Purdue University,

catalogue, 2011

Tschida, Anne: Traces of What Was and What Makes Us Who We Are,

Knightarts.org,  Mar. 30, 2011

Hood, John: NiteTalk, NBCMiami.com, (blog). Mar. 17, 2011

2010    Bischoff, Dan: Star-Ledger, Metro 27, Nov. 7, 2010

Reality + Artifice: NJ Arts Annual Fine Arts, New Jersey State Museum,

catalogue, 2010

2009    Bell, Anonda, Hysteria: Past Yet Present, Paul Robeson Galleries,

Rutgers, 2009, p. 86-87

2008    Jamaican Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Biennial Catalogue

Foumberg, Jason: The New Authentics, Frieze Magazine, August 8, 2008

Vider, Stephen: Cultural Evolution, Nextbook.org, July 2, 2008

Boris, Staci: The New  Authentics: Artists of the post-Jewish

Generation,  Spertus Museum, 2008, p.124-127

2007    Artner, Alan G.: Chicago Tribune, The New Authentics Art Review,

Tempo Section, December 6, 2007

Gunn, Dan: New City, Authentically Yours, December 6, 2007

Weinberg, Lauren: Time Out Chicago, Art Stars of David,

Nov 29-Dec 5, 2007

2006    Jamaican Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Biennial Catalogue

2003    New  American Talent 18, Arthouse at the Jones Center,

catalogue, 2003

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ

Newark Museum, Newark, NJ

Davidson College, Davidson, NC

Margulies Collection, Miami, FL

Sagamore Collection, Miami, FL

Girls Club Collection, Fort Lauderdale, FL

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