DAWSON WEBER

2005 M.F.A., Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
1996 B.Music, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois

SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2010
"2010 Wall Calendar" (collaboration with Vi Ha), CANAL, Los Angeles

2007
“Bridge Group [She first wrote me during one of her trips abroad, telling how she liked the fragility of those moments suspended in time—those memories whose purpose seemed to have no other function that to leave behind memories. She descirbed these moments as the shattered bits of solace from a world where everything was changing around her all while the day sky stayed blue.],” Apartment 2, Los Angeles

2005
<16–26 March 2005: an exhibition given in partial fulfillment of the Master of Fine Arts Degree>, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California

2004
“On Longing & Leaving,” Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California

“Pantone Drawings: In Memorium Milton Resnick,” Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California

2003
“Variations on a Theme by J.M. Whistler,” Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California

“...henceforth all shall be darkness.(The Seven Doors of Béla Bártók’s and Béla Balázs’ A Kékszakállú herceg vára [Duke Bluebeard’s Castle], opus 11),” Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
"Bookmeat," Side Street Projects, Los Angeles

"Monster Drawing Rally 2009," Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

"OPERA," Five Thirty Three, Los Angeles

2008
"Monster Drawing Rally 2008," Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

“Some indespensible concepts for understanding this beautiful exhibition: Bret Nicely, Heather Rasmussen and Dawson Weber,” Confederacy for Creative Ephemera, in conjunction with Circus Gallery, Los Angeles

2007
“...drawling, stretching, and fainting in coils...,” Festspiele+ 2007, Pinakothek der Moderne and Bayerische Staatsoper Nationaltheater, Munich, Germany (exh. cat.)

“Radio Danièle,” Radio LoRa in collaboration with Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland; Città Del Capo Radio Metropolitana in Collaboration with Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy

2005
“Supersonic: Los Angeles Design Center,” Los Angeles Design Center, Los Angeles

“No Pictures Please,” Cartelle Gallery, Marina del Rey, California

“Wit, Wisdom and Invention: Reflecting on Benjamin Franklin,” Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, New Jersey

2004
“Ink, Noose & the Sea: Bret Nicely, Jill Spector & Dawson Weber,” Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California

PERFORMANCES & SPECIAL PROJECTS
2007
On-air guest with Christopher Williams and John Kelsey, “Radio Danièle on PERFORMA Radio,” WFMU, Jersey City, NJ in conjunction with PERFORMA 07, New York

ARTIST'S BOOKS
2007
Bridge Group: The Falls View Bridge Series, self-published in conjunction with Apartment 2, Los Angeles

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Andrews, Kathryn. "Conversations... with Kathryn Andrews." NYFA Current (9 January 2008). Available at http://www.nyfa.org/nyfa_current_detail.asp?id=272&fid=1&sid=17&curid=678.

Gorton, Jenia. "Opera at 533." ArtSlant (4 May 2009). Available at http://www.artslant.com/la/articles/show/6981.

Sonna, Birgit. "All About Alice." TAKT (June-July 2007): 38-41.

___. "Diana Thater & Brigit Sonna: Interview May 28, 2007." Available at http://www.davidzwirner.com/resources/33535/
DT%20Munich%20Interview%20Sonna%2007.pdf.

Thater, Diana. ...drawling, stretching and fainting in coils.... Exh. cat. Munich, Germany: Bayerische Staatsoper and Pinakothek der Moderne, 2008.

WRITINGS
Fineberg, Jonathan and Josef Helfenstein, ed. Drawings of Choice from a New York Collection. Exh. cat. Champaign, Illinois: Krannert Art Museum, 2002.

This Is Not To Be Looked At: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008.

Weber, Dawson. “Pauline Oliveros.” WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution. Exh. cat. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2007.