Kim Weston

In the last decade Kim Weston gallerist and artist has shared her spirit photography throughout New England, New York and New Jersey. She’s been featured in numerous exhibitions at the Fitchburg Art  Museum, the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, The Amistad Center for Art & Culture, International Center of Photography, Artspace New Haven, and the Ely Center of Contemporary Art. Yale Morse College holds Weston’s work in a permanent installation. Weston was also awarded the Land Acknowledgment Grant from the Greater New Haven Arts Council in 2022, where they feature her large scale photographs of indigenous dancers in a permanent installation on Audubon Street. She has received coverage in the New York Times, The Boston Globe, The New Haven Independent, and the Arts Paper. Her mentors include the late Maurice Berger, who nourished her love for and interest in spirit photography. 

 

In 2020, Kim began to lay the groundwork for Wábi Gallery in New Haven, which opened for its second round of classes last fall. A home for educational programming and intergenerational learning in the heart of the city.  It is named for the Algonquin word for “see.” an homage to both Weston’s Indigenous bloodline Mohawk and the Quinnipiac land on which the city stands.

 

Kim Weston holds a B.F.A. from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and an M.F.A. in Photography from Bard College. She and her wife, Laura Fuller-Weston, are the proud mothers to six beautiful children.