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Weston
was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawai’i and currently
resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has exhibited artwork
at Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Intersection for the Arts, Southern
Exposure, and the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery in
San Francisco, the Japanese American Cultural and Community
Center and BLK/MRKT Gallery in Los Angeles, and the di Rosa
Preserve in Sonoma. His work has been featured in art fairs
in Miami and Los Angeles in the United States, Düsseldorf,
Germany and London, England. He is represented by Patricia
Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco. In the Summer of 2008, Weston
was the inaugural artist selected for the Oliver Ranch Studio
Artist Residency in Alexander Valley, California.
Weston
received an MFA in Painting and Drawing and MA in Visual &
Critical Studies (Visual Criticism) from California College
of the Arts. His research interests include contemporary practices
by artists of color, Asian American Studies, piracy, settler
colonialism in Hawai’i, and speculative fictions.
Weston
has facilitated community and youth arts projects with organizations
including the Youth Justice Coalition, Public Allies - Los
Angeles, Little Tokyo Service Center and the Asian Pacific
American Legal Center's PAPAYA youth program. He has also
been an artist in community projects with organizations including
Strategic Actions for a Just Economy.