Marion Wesson is a fifth generation Californian, born in 1971 and raised in Los Angeles. After graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1993 with a BFA in painting, Marion moved back to Los Angeles where she is a single mom to her two children. Wesson has had solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout California including Cruz L.A. Gallery in Venice where she was represented in the late 1990’s. Other solo exhibitions were held at The Irvine Fine Arts Center and The Loft at Boritzer/Grey/Hamano gallery in Santa Monica. Wesson has collaborated over the last 25 years with master printmaker and founder of El Nopal Press, Francesco Siqueiros. One edition of prints led to Wesson being awarded the James D. Phelan Art Award in Printmaking with a three person show at the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, California. Other exhibitions include shows in Massachusetts, Madrid, and a couple of sold out shows with BSDA, a new media gallery based in Brooklyn. A two-year residency at an artist collective in Valencia, Spain culminated in a solo exhibition. Wesson’s work is included in many private and corporate collections including Twitter and The Mission Pacific Hotel where a large multi-panel painting is featured in a rooftop pavilion. While navigating a three year divorce, Wesson explored themes of domestic abuse in her solo exhibition at Galleri Urbane in 2017. Wesson’s work was recently featured in issue #157 of New American Paintings and was an artist in residence at The Stay Home Gallery.

Past Exhibitions:

Gift Edit (2021)

Bread and Butter (2018)

Cluster Fail (2017)

Group Show (2015)

Directors Choice (2012)

Next (2011)