Grace Weston

Portand, OR-based Grace Weston creates narrative photography in her studio with miniature staged vignettes that address psychological themes.

She has exhibited widely in the US, as well as Europe, Scandinavia, and Japan. Her first European solo exhibition at Paci Contemporary in Brescia, Italy. An extensive exhibition of her work was shown at the Center for Photography in Yekatirinberg, Russia in 2021. In 2009, she was a finalist in PhotoEspana’s Descubrimientos exhibition in Madrid, and named one of the “Nine to Watch” in the Whatcom Museum Photography Biennial (Washington) in 2008.

Grace’s work has been acquired by the Portland Art Museum (OR), the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (Fort Worth, TX), the University of the Arts (Philadelphia PA), Seattle Public Utilities Portable Artworks Collection (WA), King County Public Art Collection (WA), Photographic Center Northwest (WA), Portland Community College (OR), King County 4Culture (WA), the City of Seattle Portable Works (WA), as well as numerous private collections in the US, Europe and Japan.

She has earned fellowships from both the Oregon Arts Commission and Artist Trust (Washington State), nominations for Portland Art Museum’s Contemporary Northwest Art Awards (Oregon), and numerous grants during her career spanning more than 25 years.

Reecently, she was honored as a Top 50 Finalist in Photolucida’s Critical Mass international portfolio competition, winning an additional top prize of a 2024 solo show at the Southeast Center for Photography in South Carolina. In 2021, Grace was awarded both First Place Overall Portfolio category as well as Gold Winner in the Fine Art Portfolio category in Tokyo International Foto Awards.

Her signature photography has been commissioned for print magazines and book covers in the United States, Italy, Spain, China, and the Netherlands, including O, the Oprah Magazine, Discover Magazine, and Geo Magazine(Italia). She is included in the book Microworlds (Laurence King Publishing, UK 2011). In 2020 Peanut Press published a monograph of her work entitled The Neighbors Will Talk.

Read her The Long Night series statement here.

Click here for Grace’s viewing room.

AMcE Exhibitions

As I Saw It (2024)