Shoshanna Weinberger
Shoshanna Weinberger is a visual artist born in Kingston, Jamaica, and currently based in Newark, New Jersey. Weinberger’s practice explores her Caribbean-American lineage the complexities of heritage. She considers herself a visual anthropologist, cataloging and surveying these experiences that ultimately question notions of beauty and identity.
Weinberger received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University School of Art. Her recent exhibitions include the ones at the Sunroom Project Space and Long Gallery, and Trestle Gallery in New York; Mueller Gallery and Project for Empty Space in Newark; and Nomad Gallery in Brussels, Belgium. Weinberger’s work is part of the collections of The Newark Museum of Art, New Jersey State Museum, Margulies Collection, and Davison College among others.
About her work in WOV II:
Weinberger’s work “Doppelgänger” (2014) is the cover art of WOV II. It is part of the series “Strangefruit”, that as the artist explains “references the concept of beauty excess and hybridity as it relates to a public persona of marginalized bodies.”
“Uprising” is part of her series, “Passing Between the Lines” (2020). Lines are multilayered as they are associated with animals, incarceration, fences, trickery, borders, flags, barcodes, and hybridity. As the artist states, “the pattern is used as a barrier to denote the displacement of marginalized bodies.”
“Invisible Visibility 30-Day Portraits, Month of September” is part of the “Invisible Visibility” series (2016) that is inspired by the artist’s life as a bi-racial person. She states that “using the color of the paper as the body or the ‘lightness’ of skin to reference invisible Blackness; ‘one-drop’ its counterpart, passing; and ‘Double-Consciousness.’” Weinberger recreated hair-dos from her own life as well as pop culture, and included different lipstick colors “to reference the act of wearing lipstick, which is for many a passage into womanhood.”
You can learn more about her at shoshanna.info