Bio
Vera Weinfield (b. 1992) was raised in Indiana. She graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with a BFA in painting in 2014. Before entering the MFA program at the University of North Carolina, Vera collaborated with the Greensboro Mural Collective, in Greensboro, NC and worked for several years as a community artist with Los Muralistas de El Puente, an intergenerational mural collective based in Brooklyn. In collaboration with other artists and within her individual art practice, Vera invents mythical, political, and psychological narratives that investigate the slippages between ‘good’ and ‘evil,’ Jew and Gentile, man and woman, animal and human, victim and oppressor.VERA WEINFIELD veraweinfield@gmail.com veraweinfield.com
EDUCATION
2024 Masters of Fine Arts, Studio Art – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2014 Bachelors of Fine Arts, Painting – Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2024 Ox-Bow School of Art workshop scholarship award
2024 MFA Top Prize, awarded by Elena Ketelson González, curator at MoMA PS1, CAM Raleigh
2023 SOMA Artist Residency, Tlaxcala, MX
2023 2024 Teaching Fellowship, University of North Carolina
2022-2023 The Morrison Fellowship, University of North Carolina
2022-2024 The Henry Fellowship, University of North Carolina
2013 Yale Norfolk School of Music and Art Residency
2013 Janet Fleischer Prize
2013 Pearson Memorial Prize
2013 Watkins Grant
2012 Louis B Sloan Landscape Prize
PUBLICATIONS
2022 The Bridge–Narrative painting series published in World War 3 Illustrated
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2024 Unraveling The Threads, Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, NC
2024 A Product of Its Environment: Selected Works by the MFA Class of 2024, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
2023 (Remix): Domestic Materiality, UNC Pembroke, Pembroke NC
2023 A Tell Tale, PEEL Gallery, Carrboro, NC
2017 Natural Phenomena, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
2014 Annual Student Exhibition–PAFA–Philadelphia, PA
COMMUNITY MURALS & SETS
Los Muralistas de El Puente
2022 Housing INterSECTionality/Interseccionalidad de Viviendas, Mural for The Taylor Wythe Community
Center, Brooklyn, NY: Lead Muralist
2022 Living Altar set for the Bushwick Starr’s play: Song of Songs
2021 Look! Listen! Speak Up! Mural for El Puente’s Nuestro Aire campaign for Patagonia, Brooklyn, NY:
Lead Muralist
2021 Creo/Creo, Mural for MS50: A Lead Muralist
2020 Unidos Através de Comida y Amor/United Through Food and Love, Mural for the Moore St. Market
Brooklyn, NY: Lead Muralist
2020 Youth Demand Restorative Justice, Mural for El Puente Headquarters, Brooklyn, NY: Lead Muralist 2020 Essentially Brooklyn, Painting installation, Domino Park, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Sets for the Three Kings Play, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Reborn From The Ashes, Mural for The Concerned Citizens of Grove St. Garden- Brooklyn, NY:
Lead Muralist
2019 El Puente Bushwick Center Mural: Lead Muralist
2019 Quienes Somos - Denizen Rheingold Mural Project-Brooklyn, NY
2019 Boricua En La Luna, Mural for Domino Park, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Sets for the Three Kings Play, Brooklyn, NY
2018 New Life Child Development Center Mural, Brooklyn, NY
Groundswell
2022 La Vida Es Un Carnaval, Mural for MS247, designed and painted with 10 students: Lead Muralist
2021 Over The Moon & Con Esa Intensidad, 2 Murals for MS247: Lead Muralist
ArtMakers
2018 Welling Court Mural Project- Queens, NY
Redwing Blackbird Theater
2018 Puppet Pageant- Designed and painted a set, created puppets, performed in a puppet pageant- Hunts
Point, The Bronx, NY
Greensboro Mural Project
2017-2018 Tough Love - Downtown Greensboro, NC–Lead Muralist
2017 Wonderful Women and Fabulous Femmes, People’s Perk Cafe–Assistant Muralist
Independent Projects
2018 Vote for Fahiym! Mural for Guilford County Commissioner election, Greensboro, NC
2016 Under The Palms, Mural for Eco-lodge, El Arco, Mexico
2016 Vista Mariposa, Mural for Papalotzin Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary, Zitacuaro, Mexico