Jordan J. Weber
Jordan J. Weber is a Des Moines-based multi-disciplinary artist/activist who works at the cross section of race and environmental justice. His work has been exhibited at White Box, New York; Union for Contemporary Art, Omaha; Intersect Art Center, St. Louis; Des Moines Art Center; Macalister College, Twin Cities, Smack Mellon, New York; Manifest Justice, Los Angeles; Charlotte Street Foundation; Kansas City; Open Engagement, Chicago. Weber is best known for his deconstructed police vehicles turned community gardens/workout equipment, and recontextualized abandoned structures. Awards and fellowships include Harvard LOEB finalist, A Blade of Grass fellowship NYC, Tanne Foundation fellow, Des Moines Public Art Foundation fellow, and African American Leadership Fellow. He is currently the 2020 artist in residence at the Walker Art Center.
His detailed CV is below:
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
Body Snatchers, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
If We Can’t Blast Through, I’ll Burn Through, Gallery 38, Los Angeles, CA
2014
With or Without Salt, Young Blood? Pet Shop Gallery, Omaha, NE
2012
Young Bloods, Fluxx Gallery, Des Moines, IA
2010
Private Showing, Torino, Italy
23 Cents, Fluxx Gallery, Des Moines, IA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019-2020
The Luminary, Arch City Defenders, St. Louis, MO
Don’t Just Do Something, No Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Bemis Center For Arts, Omaha NE
NYCLU Broken Windows, SOZE Agency New York, NY
Monument Valley, Des Moines Art Center, IA
2017- 2018
SOZE Agency, Broken Windows Policing; New York, New York
Plaid Progress Intersect Art Center, St. Louis, MO
Where We Land, Union for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
Sensible Disobedience, LA Esuina Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Working Forces, Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
2016
Make America Great Again, White Box Gallery, New York, NY
2015
Make Their Gold Teeth Ache, Des Moines, IA Manifest: Justice, Los Angeles, CA
RESPOND, Smack Mellon Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Four Person Solo, Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IA
2014
Pop Meets Street, Modern Arts Midtown, Omaha, NE Four Solo, Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IA
2013
Four Solos, Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IA Grand Opening, The Space Gallery, Chicago, IL Four Solos, Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IA
2011
Untitled, Fluxx Gallery, Des Moines, IA
Untitled, Davenport Gallery, Davenport, CA
2009
Pop Something, Instinct Gallery, Des Moines, IA Spring Show, Art Dive Gallery, Des Moines, IA
COMMUNITY PROJECTS
2016
#KnowJustice Incarcerated Youth Empowerment Program, ArtForceIowa, Des Moines, IA
2015
6th Avenue Empowerment Murals, Children and Family Urban Movement, Des Moines, IA
Street Art Empowerment Workshops, Children and Family Urban Movement, Des Moines, IA
Graffiti Tutorial with Mobile Art Gallery, Children and Family Urban Movement, Des Moines, IA
Summer in the City-Street Art Tutorial, YMCA of Greater Des Moines, Des Moines, IA
Mini Mural Project, Madison Elementary School, Des Moines, IA
2014
Street Knowledge, RunDSM, Des Moines, IA
Graffiti Tutorial with Mobile Art Gallery, Summer in the City, Evelyn Davis Park, Des Moines, IA Mural Project, Jefferson Elementary School, Des Moines, IA
Street Art and Graffiti Courses, Ballard High School, Huxley, IA
Street Art and Graffiti Workshops, Oakridge Neighborhood Services, Des Moines, IA
African American Leadership Forum Murals, Oakridge Neighborhood Services, Des Moines, IA
Graffiti Tutorial and Mural Project, Oakland Youth Engaged-The Unity Council, Oakland, CA
2013
Summer Arts Program, Evelyn Davis Park, Des Moines, IA
Summer Arts Empowerment Program, Children and Family Urban Movement, Des Moines, IA
2012
Summer Arts Empowerment Program, Children and Family Urban Movement, Des Moines, IA
Arts Program, Boys and Girls Club of Central Iowa, Des Moines, IA
2011
Arts Program, Boys and Girls Club of Central Iowa, Des Moines, IA
2010
Arts Program, Boys and Girls Club of Central Iowa, Des Moines, IA
PUBLIC ART & STREET ART
2015
Mound Installations, Des Moines, IA
2014
Louis Vuitton Drug House Installation, Des Moines, IA
Mound Installations, Des Moines, IA
Mural, West Oakland, CA
Nomadic Sojourns Mural, East Oakland, CA
Untitled Installation, Salt Flats, UT
2013
Mural, Des Moines Social Club, Des Moines, IA
Mural, Jefferson Elementary School, Des Moines, IA
Mural, Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IA
2012
Simpsons and Francis Bacon Mural, Des Moines, IA
2010-2012
Pastes, Kansas City, MO
Tags and Burners, Davenport, CA
Tags and Burners, Santa Cruz, CA
2010
Stencils and pastes, Genova, Italy
Stencils and pastes, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Pastes, Paris, France
2007-2014
43 Street works, Des Moines, IA
LECTURES & ARTIST TALKS
2018- 2019
Black Midwest Symposioum, University of Minnesota
2015
A Panel Discussion with Dread Scott, John Sims and Jordan Weber, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Dread Scott and Jordan Weber, Colby College, Waterville, ME
Social Practices, Drake University, Des Moines, IA
Bits, Pixels, Practice, Iowa State University College of Design, Ames, IA
2014
Gallery Practices, Drake University, Des Moines, IA
Race in Art, Drake University, Des Moines, IA
2013
Street Art and Eastern Philosophies, Drake University, Des Moines, IA
PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
Artists take on issues of race and police brutality, The Des Moines Register, February 26, 2016
We’ve Always Been Here: A Portrait of the US by Two Black Artists, Hyperallergic, August 12, 2015
Artful Exploration of Race, dsm Magazine, August 6, 2015
Mural to enliven wall near Cowles Commons, The Des Moines Register, August 3, 2015
Jordan Weber on Police, Art & Lost Basketball Dreams, Art for Amnesty, July 8, 2015
Pop-up Exhibit Provokes Conversation on Manifest Justice, NBC4 News- Southern California, May 7, 2015 Episode One: Jordan Weber, #TheArtInfluencer, May 12, 2015
150 artists and a Ferguson, Mo., police car at political pop-up Manifest Justice, Los Angeles Times, April 30, 2015
Des Moines man makes statement as artful activist, The Washington Times, March 22, 2014
Des Moines artist sparks discussion with Ferguson piece, The Des Moines Register, December 18, 2014
Sao Paulo, Architectural Digest, September, 2013
Nomadic Sojourns Journal, Volume II, August 15, 2013
Where They Create, DSM Magazine, April 22, 2013
CURATOR
2015
Make Their Gold Teeth Ache, Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IA
Make Their Gold Teeth Ache, Legion Arts, Cedar Rapids, IA
2013-Present
Mobile Art Gallery, Des Moines, IA
2011-Present
Fluxx Collective, Des Moines, IA
AWARDS
2015
Tanne Foundation Award
Iowa Arts Council Art Project Grant
2014
Iowa Arts Council Artist Fellowship
African American Leadership Forum Grant
EDUCATION
Kirkwood College, Cedar Rapids, IA, 2004-2007
The American University of Rome, Roma, Italy, 2005
Simpson College, Indianola, IA, 2003-2004
