GRACE WEAVER
In her paintings and works on paper, Grace Weaver (b. 1989) explores the painterly possibilities of the human form. Bodies, faces, furniture and objects are arranged in concise compositions of line, colour and shape, in which a curve might describe a shoulder, a swoop of hair or the contour of a vessel, binding the paintings in visual rhyme. Weaver condenses familiar forms into a highly personal vocabulary of shapes and symbols which concentrate her subjects’ emotional charge. Finding affinities between our contemporary world and far-flung points in art history, the artist reveals a persistent interest in the ever-evolving language of the face and figure across time and geography. Her sources range from Neolithic sculpture to Cranach, from Minoan frescoes to Oskar Schlemmer, reflecting a maximalist approach that echoes the literary magpie-ism of James Joyce.
Weaver’s motifs, which span mothers, couples, mourners, female nudes and flowers, take the figure as a point of departure for an exploration of the materials and methods of painting. Working in oil, acrylic and watercolour, Weaver brings chroma and brushwork together in an all-over, wet-into-wet approach. Because of the intense immediacy of her process, brushstrokes become a catalogue of time, each stroke like a step in Weaver’s painterly choreography. Despite their often monumental scale, her works retain a sense of intimacy through their insistence on mark-making. The resulting images are at once highly composed and vividly alive: figures held in a state between representation and abstraction, presentness and archetype.
‘I think that painting always has this paradox of making eternal something totally temporary. To me, that’s a kind of rare thing in the world […]. I think that painting has this very special ability to freeze one feeling and one very discrete amount of time forever.’
G. Weaver, ‘Eternity Captured in a Gesture’, Louisiana Channel, May 2025.
Image: Nightgown, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 300 x 210 cm.; 118 1/8 x 82 5/8 in. Photo: def image
Artist Talk
Selected Works
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
Biography
VITA
1989
Born in Vermont, USA
2010
Study abroad, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne
2011
BA, University of Vermont, Burlington
2012
Dakshina Chitra, Artist-in-Residence, Chennai
Burlington City Arts, ArtLab Resident, Burlington
2014
VCUarts Dean’s Graduate Research Grant, University of Vermont, Burlington
2015
MFA, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
Lives and works in New York, USA and Berlin, Germany
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
ARoS Aarhus Art Museum
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk
Fleming Museum of Art, Burlington
FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou
K&L Museum, Gwacheon
Kunstpalast Düsseldorf
Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig
Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus
Philara Collection, Düsseldorf
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
Yuz Foundation
8smicka Collection, Humpolec
Zabludowicz Collection, London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026
Parataxis
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Soy Capitán, Berlin
Untitled (Mother and Child), 2025 (Pièce unique)
Galerie Max Hetzler, Window Gallery, Berlin
Plaids
Galerie Max Hetzler, London
Prélude
Kunstmuseum Magdeburg
Untitled (Mourner), 2025 (Pièce unique)
Galerie Max Hetzler, Window Gallery, Berlin
2025
The Viewing Room
Petzel Gallery, New York
Günther Förg and Grace Weaver
Galerie Max Hetzler | Salon, Athens
Untitled (Praying), 2025 (Pièce unique)
Galerie Max Hetzler, Window Gallery, Berlin
Mothers
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2024
Flowers
Galerie Max Hetzler, London
Hotel Paintings
Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris
Grace Weaver II
Neues Museum Nürnberg, Nuremberg
2023
Painters & Portraits
Yuz Museum, Shanghai
Laundry
Soy Capitán, Berlin
Grace Weaver I
Neues Museum Nürnberg, Nuremberg
Indoor Paintings
Hetzler Marfa
2022
Trash-Scapes
Galerie Max Hetzler, London (catalogue)
2021
11 Women
James Cohan, New York (catalogue)
DROOP
Soy Capitán, Berlin (catalogue)
2020
Steps
James Cohan, New York (catalogue)
2019
Little Sister
Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg (catalogue)
O.K.
Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen (catalogue)
2018
Best Life
James Cohan, New York
All the Girls
Aike Gallery, Shanghai
2017
No Hard Feelings
Koppe Astner, Glasgow
Pedestrian
Kunstverein Reutlingen, Reutlingen
Super Busy
Soy Capitán, Berlin
2015
Skinny Latte
Soy Capitán, Berlin
Teenage Dream
Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York
2012
The Interior Landscape
Dakshina Chitra, Chennai
2011
Thin-Skinned
Space Gallery, Burlington
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
Fields of Vision: Dallas Collects
Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas
On Paper
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2025
The Miettinen Collection: I Will Look Into The Earth
Kunsthalle Helsinki
The Arts Club, London
Notes On Becoming
Oldenburger Kunstverein
Break Point
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Potential Colour
Galerie Max Hetzler, London
On Paper
Galerie Max Hetzler, London
2024
On Paper
Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris
»daß die Göttin nicht himmelwärts, sondern herab nach ihren Freunden blickt«
Secci Gallery, Florence
Flawless Waltz
Soy Capitán, Berlin
2023
das gelbe Licht 6 Uhr nachmittags
Remembering, envisioning, sensing landscape
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Next Door: A Yuz Foundation Collection
Yuz Museum, Shanghai
die Welt is noch auf einen Abend mein
Galería Ehrhardt Flórez, Madrid
Papier.Salon III
Wentrup Gallery, Hamburg
2022
24h (in collaboration with Super Super Markt)
Braunsfelder, Cologne
How To & Know-How
Neue Galerie Gladbeck
K60
Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin
How (Not) To Fit In. Adolescence as a Metaphor
Villa Merkel, Esslingen
dark things we tell each other
Miettinen Collection / Salon Dahlmann, Berlin
The Innerworld of the Outerworld of the Innerworld
Soy Capitán, Berlin
The Most Dangerous Game
Spurs Gallery, Beijing
2021
First Date
Jo Van De Loo x Soy Capitán, Various Others, Munich
Can You See The Real Me
Van Horn, Dusseldorf
Time Out. On Breaks and Moments of Awakening
Kunstmuseum Ravensburg (catalogue)
2020
Wolken in der zeitgenössischen Kunst – Flüchtig, Zeichenhaft, Bedrohlich
Oldenburger Kunstverein
BED AND CLOCK, MOON AND BEACH: Edvard Munch
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue)
Fragmented Bodies
Albertz Benda, New York
Portraits Forever
Espace Tajan, Paris
2019
James Cohan: Twenty Years
James Cohan, New York
The Self, the work, the world
Fabian Lang, Zurich
Living and Real
Kapp Kapp Gallery, Philadelphia
2018
I’m large, I contain multitudes
Galerie Wedding, Berlin
Girls 3000
Galerie Petra Martinetz, Cologne
Killing Me Softly
Miettinen Collection / Salon Dahlmann, Berlin
To Our Fellow Artists and Poets Who Are Confused About Which Direction To Go
Lundgren Gallery, Palma de Mallorca
2017
Reinventing the Figure
Monica de Cardeñas Gallery, Zouz
Marching to the Beat
Jesicca Silverman Gallery, San Francisco
2016
No Man is an Island – The Satanic Verses
ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus
Characters
V1 Gallery, Copenhagen
Surface Tension
Simone Subal, New York
2015
VCU MFA Thesis Exhibition
Anderson Gallery, Richmond
Southern Hospitality
University of Georgia, Georgia
Berg, Matthams, Self & Weaver
Thierry Goldberg, New York
2014
MASH-UP
Page Bond Gallery, Richmond
2013
NEXT
Page Bond Gallery, Richmond
Once They Were
Burlington City Arts, Burlington
Blind Date
VCU FAB Gallery, Richmond
2012
Like, Whatever
Burlington City Arts, Burlington
30/30 Print Project
Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Burlington
2011
Double Cousin
Colburn Gallery, University of Vermont, Burlington
Paper
215 College Gallery, Burlington
2010
The 5th International Student Triennial
Marmara University, Istanbul
Artofice
Windsor Terrace, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Drawn
215 College Gallery, Burlington
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
E. P.S. Degenhardt, G. Weaver, Grace Weaver: In Morocco, exh. cat., Paris: Galerie Max Hetzler, 2024
C. Malycha, Grace Weaver: Trash-Scapes, exh. cat., London: Galerie Max Hetzler, 2022
24h - Özgür Kar, Cécile Lempert, Michel Majerus, Louis Mason, Joanna Piotrowska, Ser Serpas, Grace Weaver, Angharad Williams, exh. cat., Cologne: Braunsfelder / Super Super Markt, 2022
C. Remm, U. Suffer & K. Groß, Auszeit. Von Pausen und Momenten des Aufbruchs, exh. cat., Ravensburg: Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, 2021
E. P.S. Degenhardt, G. Weaver, Grace Weaver: 11 Women, exh. cat., New York: James Cohan, 2021
M. Canbaz, et al., Grace Weaver, exh. cat., Kunstpalais Erlangen; Bielefeld: Kerber, 2020
S. Thompson, Grace Weaver: STEPS, exh. cat., New York: James Cohan, 2020
Videos
Publications
Grace Weaver: Parataxis
Exhibition Poster
2026
€ 15.00
Grace Weaver: Plaids
Exhibition Poster
2026
€ 15.00
Grace Weaver: Mothers
Exhibition Poster
2025
€ 15.00
Grace Weaver: Flowers
Exhibition Poster
2024
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Grace Weaver: Hotel Paintings
Exhibition Poster
2024
Out of stock
Grace Weaver
Tote Bag
2023
€ 30.00
Grace Weaver: In Morocco
Buchhandlung Walther König, 2023
Edited by Samia Saouma
Out of stock
Grace Weaver: TRASH-SCAPES
Exhibition Poster
2022
€ 15.00
Grace Weaver: TRASH-SCAPES
Exhibition Poster
2022
€ 15.00
Grace Weaver: TRASH-SCAPES
Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London 2022
Featuring an in-depth interview with Grace Weaver
Out of stock
Selected Press
Financial Times April 2026
Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin November 2025
Harper’s Bazaar Germany January 2025
Frieze February 2024
The Art Newspaper January 2024
Financial Times January 2024
Frieze February 2024
Widewalls May 2023
Frankfurter Allgemeine December 2022
Time Out November 2022
The-Art-Form 2022
Vogue January 2022
Artsy May 2020
Nylon Magazine September 2018
