Ms. Weir earned her MFA in painting from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA); her MA in painting from New Mexico State University. She also holds a BFA in painting from San Francisco Art Institute and BA in art history from Wheaton College in Massachusetts.
Ms. Weir has had solo exhibitions at Ivan Karp's OK Harris Gallery in New York, and the Ruth Bachofner Gallery in Santa Monica, CA. She has completed installation pieces at Athens Institute of Contemporary Art (ATHICA), Lexington Art League (KY), the Las Cruces Museum of Art (Las Cruces, NM), the Hardesty Art Center in Tulsa OK, Coastal Carolina University, and Central Features Gallery in Albuquerque, NM
In 2017 the Puffin Foundation awarded Weir a grant to support her work on gun violence that was shown in solo shows at St. Louis Community College, Florissant Valley in Ferguson, MO and at the Hardesty Art Center in Tulsa OK. Weir has won numerous awards for her work, including a 2016 Best of Show Grand Prize at the Las Vegas Contemporary Art Center as well as a 2015 Best of Show award in the Human Rights Exhibition, South Texas College, McAllen, TX.
She is, currently, an Associate Professor of painting and drawing at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan
Ms. Weir has had solo exhibitions at Ivan Karp's OK Harris Gallery in New York, and the Ruth Bachofner Gallery in Santa Monica, CA. She has completed installation pieces at Athens Institute of Contemporary Art (ATHICA), Lexington Art League (KY), the Las Cruces Museum of Art (Las Cruces, NM), the Hardesty Art Center in Tulsa OK, Coastal Carolina University, and Central Features Gallery in Albuquerque, NM
In 2017 the Puffin Foundation awarded Weir a grant to support her work on gun violence that was shown in solo shows at St. Louis Community College, Florissant Valley in Ferguson, MO and at the Hardesty Art Center in Tulsa OK. Weir has won numerous awards for her work, including a 2016 Best of Show Grand Prize at the Las Vegas Contemporary Art Center as well as a 2015 Best of Show award in the Human Rights Exhibition, South Texas College, McAllen, TX.
She is, currently, an Associate Professor of painting and drawing at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan