Shoshanna Weinberger

Born in Kingston, Jamaica, and raised in Montclair, NJ, Shoshanna Weinberger earned an MFA from the Yale School of Art. Living and working in Newark, NJ, since 2006, where her studio practice explores her Afro-Caribbean-American lineage through mixed media abstraction. Weinberger is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2014 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, the 2020 Newark Artist Accelerator Grant (Andy Warhol Foundation), the 2022 Nancy Graves Foundation for Visual Artists Grant, and the 2023–2024 NJ Futures Artist Fellowship (The Center for Cultural Power & the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation). Highlight exhibition venues include: The Bronx Museum; The Newark Museum of Art; and The National Gallery of Jamaica. She has also participated in artist residencies such as the Joan Mitchell Center and McColl Center.