Tess Wei (American, born )

Timeline

2017
Swarthmore College, BA
2020
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, MFA
Tess Wei is an artist born, raised, and based in Philadelphia. They received a BA from Swarthmore College in 2017 — studying Art, Art History, and Sociology & Anthropology respectively — and an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2020. Through textured surfaces and limited palettes, Tess considers how paintings’ formal qualities and possible meanings shift in response to changing light, vantage points, and slow looking. Their constellation of thoughts are greatly influenced by the writings of Hito Steyerl, Byung-Chul Han, Italo Calvino, Slavoj Žižek, and Walter Benjamin. Tess is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Swarthmore College, the Exhibitions Manager and Assistant Curator at the List Gallery, Swarthmore College, and a member of AUTOMAT Collective — an artist-run collective based in Philadelphia. Their work has been exhibited in spaces including: Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA; Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia, PA; AUTOMAT Collective, Philadelphia, PA; and Anna Zorina, New York, NY.

Exhibitions

2022
TESS WEI a great dent New Paintings, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
2022
[SOME] Small Paintings and Works on Paper, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA (group)
2021
Street View, Gallery 3E, New York, NY + virtual gallery space
2020
New Moon, Full Moon, Old Moon; New Moon..., Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA (group)
2020
B.A.S.E. , Anna Zorina, New York, NY (virtual exhibition)
2020
all at once / little by little, Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia, PA (group)
2020
touch with your eyes, AUTOMAT, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
2020
Body(No)Body, Brodsky Center, Philadelphia, PA (virtual exhibition)
2020
Jump into The Fire, Atelier FAS, Philadelphia, PA (group)
2019
Reflection(s) , Anne Bryan Gallery, PAFA, Philadelphia, PA (group)
2019
Form & Reflection, 1526 Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (group)
2017
Edges and Reflections, List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA (solo)
2017
Annual Exhibition, Fowler-Kellogg Art Center Chautauqua, NY (group)
2016
Works from Ireland, Swarthmore Borough Hall, Swarthmore, PA (group)

Literature

2020
Design/Writing:
Four Points of View catalog design, ISBN:978-0-9993904-5-0
Swarthmore Artists 2020 catalog design, ISBN:978-0-9993904-4-3 2019
Sue Hettmansperger, Iterations: Painting and Collage catalog design, ISBN:978-0-9993904-0-5
Jan Baltzell: Drawings catalog design, ISBN: 978-0-9993904-2-9 2017
List Gallery: 25 Years catalog text + design, ISBN: 978-0-9861481-4-9
Alexis Petroff: Floating Drawings [List Gallery, Swarthmore College] catalog design
2020
Publications/Zines/Artist Books:
touch with your eyes writing + design, self-published
Embody Zine Digital zine, Volumes I, II, and III. Hosted by Young Space and Olympia Project
Tastes zine/artist book for Jump into The Fire at Atelier FAS text: Tess Wei, design: Claudia Valenti
English (US)

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