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Tess Wei ’17

Exhibitions Manager & Associate Curator

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Affiliations: List Gallery

Photograph of Tess

Tess Wei is an artist, curator, and writer born and based in Philadelphia.

 

solo exhibitions

2024  two in a lake, Galerie Molitor, Berlin, Germany 

2023  dirty snow, D.D.D.D., NYC, New York

2022  a great dent, New Paintings, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA

2020 touch with your eyes, AUTOMAT, Philadelphia, PA

Group exhibitions/projects

2024

Azure,  Indigo, Ultramarine, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA

CHANGING LIGHT (PROXIMITY TINT), Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA

2023

idle hands as part of Invited: Take Care of the Square Footage, Ice Box Project Space, Philadelphia, PA

2022

Verso: A Virtual Sehnsucht Exhibition, Field Projects, New York, NY

Eco/Systems, Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA

[SOME] Small Paintings and Works on Paper, Larry Becker Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA

2021

Street View, Gallery 3E, New York, NY

Delaware County Higher Education Teaching Artists, Duke Gallery, Wallingford, PA


2020

New Moon, Full Moon, Old Moon; New Moon..., Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA

B.A.S.E., Anna Zorina, New York, NY
all at once / little by little, Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia, PA (two-person)
Jump into The Fire, Atelier FAS, Philadelphia, PA 

 

curatorial projects

lead curator

2024   Workshop of the World: Works by Tabitha Arnold, List Gallery, Swarthmore College

2023   Conflicting Truths: Works by Melissa Joseph, List Gallery, Swarthmore College

2022   a thing shared, AUTOMAT Collective


curatorial assistant to head curator [selection]

Karyn Olivier: Seep, List Gallery

EDITH: An Architectural History — An installation by Nora Wendl, List Gallery

SIDE ANGLE TIDE : Eleanor Conover, List Gallery

Ubiquitous Presence: Selected Works by Barbara Bullock, List Gallery

Paul S. Briggs: Material Shapes in Clay, List Gallery

Hear Her: Works by Dyani White Hawk, List Gallery

 

residencies

2022   Fogo Island Residency, Newfoundland, Canada
2017   Chautauqua School of Art, Chautauqua, NY
2015   Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, Ireland [student residency]

 

artist's books / printed matter

Seed Pocket Project / Print in collaboration with FORTUNE / Many Folds Press, Philadelphia, PA (collaborative risograph project, cultural heritage and seed distribution) 

The Diasporic Chinese Lunar Calendar, by FORTUNE / Many Folds Press guide to the Water Tiger. Collaborative project and printed calendar