resume/c.v | bio | press excerpts

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.