Ken Weathersby’s art often features canvases with elements removed, inserted or rearranged, creating an interplay of depth and surface, and allowing a collision of images, texts, and real space with abstraction.  

He has exhibited his work nationally and internationally, with notable solo shows at Minus Space (Brooklyn), Pierogi Gallery (New York), One River Gallery (Englewood, NJ), NIAD Art Center Gallery (Richmond, CA), Some Walls (Oakland, CA), and the John Cotton Dana Gallery, Rutgers University (Newark).  His work has been included in group exhibitions at the National Academy of Art Museum (New York), Pazo Fine Arts (Washington, DC), Honey Ramka (Brooklyn), ODETTA Gallery (Brooklyn), 57w57Arts (New York), Parallel Art Space (Ridgewood, NY), Mixed Greens (New York), Aljira Art Center (Newark), the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Gallery (Morristown, NJ), Barbara Walters Gallery at Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, New York), the Visual Art Center of NJ (Summit, NJ), Seven (Miami), Toomey Tourell (San Francisco), and I.S. Projects (Leiden, Netherlands), among many others.

Weathersby has received numerous awards and residencies, including two Individual Artist Painting Fellowships from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Council/NJSCA.  His work has been reviewed in The Washington Post, Hyperallergic, The Huffington Post, Brooklyn Magazine, New American Paintings, Two Coats of Paint, Painter’s Bread, and elsewhere.  Weathersby holds an MFA in Painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art.  He was born in Mississippi and has lived in the New York City area since 1990.




EXHIBITIONS

2024
Remember Forget (solo), Window Unit Gallery, South Orange, NJ
Pierogi 30, Pierogi Gallery, NY, NY
Sword Thumbs, Real Tinsel, Milwaukee, WI
Borderline: Mapping Narratives, Pierogi Gallery / L'Space, NY, NY
Dream Objects, 57w57, NY, NY

2023
Remember Forget (solo), Window Unit Gallery, South Orange, NJ
Calendar (solo), Aferro Gallery, Newark, NJ
Alphabet Soup, (Curated by E.E. Ikeler), Essex Flowers, NY, NY
Twenty, Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY

2022
Make Art Not War, Pierogi Gallery, NY, NY
The Sum of All Parts, (Curated by Kristen Rego) Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie, NY

2021
Dream Paintings (solo), Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY
Emblemata: E.E. Ikeler and Ken Weathersby, (Curated by John O'Connor and Luis Pazo), Pazo Fine Art, Kensington, MD
Works from the Permanent Collection, USM Museum of Art, Hattiesburg, MS
Threnody, (Curated by Richard Saja), One Mile Gallery, Kingston, NY (virtual exhibition)
HATAK , North Willow, (virtual exhibition)
The Idiosyncratic Pencil Redrafted, (organized by Ann Stoddard), Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery, Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC

2020
Glimpse, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ

2019 
Untitled (Summer), Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY
Chalkboard Chronicles, (curated by Tom Judd), Artyard, Frenchtown, NJ
The Idiosyncratic Pencil II, (organized by Ann Stoddard), Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery, Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC

2018
Inside Job (solo), Kent Place Gallery, Summit, NJ
“First I was afraid, I was petrified...”, Treasure Town, Brooklyn, NY
NJSCA / Mid-Atlantic Arts Individual Artist Fellows,
Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center, Millville, NJ
The Idiosyncratic Pencil, (organized by Ann Stoddard), Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery, Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC

2017
Time After Time (solo), Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY
Infinity Pool (curated by Rebecca Morgan and Stephen Eakin), SPRING/BREAK Art Show, NY, NY
Colormania: Paul Corio, Robert Otto Epstein, Ken Weathersby, ODETTA Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Pointing Fingers: Julie Ann Nagle, Genesis Tramaine, Ken Weathersby, (curated by Jo-El Lopez), 77 Market Street / Aferro Gallery, Newark, NJ

2016
Razorbilder: Lars van Dooran, Stephen Eakin, Kirsten Nelson and Ken Weathersby, Honey Ramka Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Monuments in Reverse (curated by Jacob Cartwright), 245 Varet, Brooklyn, NY
Precision and Pattern (curated by Christine Romanell), Maloney Gallery at the College of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ
I See a Rib (curated by John O'Connor), Hozhoni Art Gallery, Flagstaff, AZ

2015
Part to Whole: work by Li Trincere and Ken Weathersby (curated by Karen Schifano), Key Projects, NY, NY MA Crossed with KW: Recent Work by Michele Alpern and Ken Weathersby, Kent Place Gallery, Summit, NJ
Molting, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ
Contrasting Abstractions (curated by Virginia Butera), The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Morristown, NJ 2014