Contact: barbaraweissberger(at)gmail.com
Barbara Weissberger stages photographs and works with textiles to consider bodies, objects, the weird, and the everyday. Her work has been supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship and numerous residencies including, MacDowell, Yaddo, Ragdale, Bogliasco, Camargo, the Drawing Center Open Sessions, Ucross, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Montana Artists Refuge. Her work has been exhibited at such venues as PS1/MoMA, White Columns, The Drawing Center, Project Artspace, PS 122, NYC; ADA Gallery, Richmond; Catskill Artspace, Livingston Manor; Hallwalls, Buffalo; Gridspace, Brooklyn; Silver Eye, The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh; and The Missoula Art Museum, Missoula. Media includes Fraction Magazine, Femme Art Review and The Heavy Collective. Her poetry has appeared in Contact Sheet and is forthcoming in Salt Hill. She is part of the collaborative duo ALDRICH + WEISSBERGER. She received an M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute and is Teaching Professor Emerita at the University of Pittsburgh. She lives and works in Pittsburgh and sometimes in Montana.
BARBARA WEISSBERGER
Selected Awards/Grants/Residencies
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 1996-2025 multiple,
Heinz Fellow 2007, Dodge Foundation Fellow 2000
The Bogliasco Foundation, Liguria, Italy, 2018
The Drawing Center, Open Sessions, 2014 - 2015
The Ragdale Foundation, multiple 2014, 2016, 2018
The Hambidge Center, NEA Distinguished
Fellowship, Georgia, 2013
The Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France, 2011
Ucross Foundation, 2009
Guggenheim Fellowship, 2007
Yaddo, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellow, 2000
Montana Artists Refuge, multiple, 2000 - 2026
MacDowell, 1999, 1997
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2026 Potato Poems, ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA
2022 We Are So Nervous We Almost Look Calm, stop-gap projects, Columbia, MO
2020 Mother, Silver Eye, Pittsburgh, PA
2017 This Is Not A Sock, ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA
Impact Silhouette, COOP, Nashville, TN
2016 General Delivery 59631, Incident Report, Hudson, NY
2014 Pulse of Plasma, Gridspace, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Meaty Pastoral, ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA
2008 Are We Just Going To Stand And Watch This?, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, catalogue
2005 My Hamburger, Capsule Gallery, New York, NY
2002 fearfactor, HEREart, New York, NY
Selected Two-person and Group Exhibitions
2025 Untitled Miami, ADA Gallery, December 2025, Miami, FL
Thresholds: Reimagining Domesticity, Labor, and Identity, PS 122, New York, NY
Touches of the Disappearing Things, (2 person), Aunt Dofe’s, Willow Creek, MT
22 Candles, ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA
2024 IRREGULAr, Project Artspace, New York, NY
Material Girls, (2 person), Catskill Art Space, Livingston Manor, NY
Adaptation, Tomayko Foundation, Pittsburgh, PA
Prima Materia, The Post Office, Port Ewen, NY
2023 Everything Once Arranged Has Now Become Scattered, Anderson Gallery,
VCU, Richmond, VA
2022 Various Fibers and Other Ingredients, ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA
Follow the Thread, Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
2019 Perception, (2 person), Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT
2018 Pedestrian Rules, Woskob Family Gallery Penn State, State College, PA
2017 Island, Oasis, Mirage, Big Medium, Austin, TX
2016 Degrees of Separation, SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2015 Generator, ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA
Name It by Trying to Name It: Open Sessions 2014-2015, (with Eleanor Aldrich), The Drawing Center
Paper Route 66, BravinLee, New York, NY
2014 Pittsburgh Biennial, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and Pittsburgh Filmmakers,
Pittsburgh, PA
Open Sessions: OBJECT+ACTION+EXCHANGE, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2013 Thinking Drawing, Clarion University, PA
2012 Photoville, with Dumbo Art Center, Brooklyn Bridge Park, NY and NADA Hudson
2011 Full Fathom Five, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Charm School, ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA
2008 Tasty Morsels, ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA
Pittsburgh Biennial, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA (catalogue)
2007 Cut, Copy, Fold, Artist Image Resource, Pittsburgh, PA
Figures of Thinking: Convergences in Contemporary Culture, Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art,
University of Richmond (catalogue)
2005 Gestures, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
2004 Watch What We Say, Schroeder Romero, Brooklyn, NY
Repulsion, Illinois State University at Normal, Normal, IL
2002 Man Walks Into A Room, DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
1999 Outer Boroughs, White Columns, New York, NY
100 Drawings, PS1 Institute for Contemporary Art, Long Island City, NY
Other Projects
(It) Feels, collaboration with Staycee Pearl Dance Project and Soy Sos, March, 2023
Variations on Want, collaboration with choreographer Charly Santagado, Counterpointe, Brooklyn, NY, March 2022
I’m Never Coming Home, Commabox v. 3, collaboration with Judith Rushin, Carolyn Henne, Eleanor Aldrich, Erin Belieu, and Kelly Hendrickson, 2020
They Sang But Had Nor Human Tunes Nor Words, video for collaboration with Eric Moe, composer, Beyond 2020: Microtonal Music Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
The Color of There Seen From Here, video for collaborative piece for chamber ensemble and video projection with
Eric Moe, composer, Electric Earth Concerts, Peterborough, NH, and Duke University, Duke Gardens, 2019
Sym, collaboration with Staycee Pearl Dance Project, 2019
CSA PGH, Community Supported Art Pittsburgh, 2014
Strange Attractors: Investigations in Non-humanoid Extraterrestrial Sexualities, contributor, curated by Suzie Silver
and Encyclopedia Destructica, 2011
Six impossible things before breakfast, contributor, Work 6, curated by Michael Wilson, a collaborative project of
Olga Adelantado, 2007
Selected Media
Art Habit: Short Answer Sunday, June 21, 2026
Introducing Two Works on Sunday, Petrichor, March 2026
Fraction Magazine, Issue 182, Summer 2025
Petrichor, Two Takes on the Tomayko Foundation's Adaptation, October 16, 2024
Petrichor, You're Doing it Wrong Gets it Right, June 2, 2024
She Performs, interview with Nicola Waterman, 2022
Femme Art Review, interview by Anna Mirzayan, Making Attachments: In Discussion
with Barbara Weissberger, 2021
Studio Visits with Silver Eye, 2020, video interview with David Oresick
The Heavy Collective, Barbara Weissberger: Mother, J Houston, 2020
Austin Chronicle, Island Oasis Mirage at Big Medium, Sam Anderson-Ramos, June 30, 2017
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, featured artist, Volume 31, Number 3, 2010
City Paper, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts offers a potent and diverse Pittsburgh Biennial, Bill O’Driscoll,
August 14, 2008
Meatpaper, Issue 2, Winter 2007, interview with Sasha Wizansky
City Paper, Fleshed Out, Sherrie Flick, May 3, 2007
Meatpaper, Issue Zero, March 2007, cover
ART PAPERS, Gestures, Jennie Klein, November/December 2005
Catalogue Essays
Barbara Weissberger: One Woman Group Show, essay by Elizabeth Saperstein, Kipp Gallery, Indiana University of
Pennsylvania
Overlap: Barbara Weissberger’s Meat Horizon, essay by Melissa Kwasny, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT
Are we just going to stand and watch this?, essays by John Massier and Heather Pesanti
Figures of Thinking: Convergences in Contemporary Culture, essay by Vicky Clark and Sandhini Poddar, University
of Richmond Museums, and the University of Washington Press
Professional Appointment
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Studio Arts, Teaching Professor Emeritus, 2004 to 2026
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Photography & Imaging, Adjunct Faculty, 1997 to 2004
Education
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, MFA, 1989
Douglas College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, BA, Studio Art, 1982
Oberlin College, Oberlin OH
I am part of the collaborative duo ALDRICH + WEISSBERGER