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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, and the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery in San Francisco, the de Saissett Museum in Santa Clara and the di Rosa Preserve in Sonoma. He is represented by Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco. Weston was the recipient of the inaugural Oliver Ranch Studio Artist Residency, an upcoming Irvine Fellowship at the Sally & Don Lucas Artist Residency Programs of the Montalvo Arts Center and a 2009 Artadia grant.

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 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.