Fred Weber (b. 1955) and lives in Nyack, NY has been a producing artist for more than twenty five years. He continues to work with traditional film and combines film and digital in his more recent work. His work has been exhibited widely in the US and is held in several collections including LACMA, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and The Denver Museum of Art among many others.
He began his series Memento Mori , images of heads that appear to be decaying in 1993, and has since been exhibiting in galleries and museums throughout the US. Whether working in still life, collage, portraiture, or self portraiture Fred Weber’s work reflects on life and death, space and time, to dark and cinematic effect. For him, photography is an allegory of the passage between life and death and is not only a way to fix one's own mortality but also to capture the passage of time.
“the work has an almost fetishistic quality, it seems to spring from the desire to capture and preserve, and tightly frame an evanescent emotion, a dissolving memory.” Aletti
Selected Collections
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Ma
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Denver Art Museum, Denver, Co
The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
The George Eastman House International Center of Photography, Rochester, NY
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Al
Bidwell Projects, Cleveland, OH
Manfred Heiting Collection, Los Angeles, CA
John Bennette III Collection, New York
Gernsheim Collection, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Collection Dancing Bear W.M. Hunt, NY
Forbes Collection, New York
The Dow Jones Collection, New York
Essence Collection, New York
The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska
The Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame
USC Fisher Museum of Art Los Angeles, CA
Exhibitions
2020
Winter Works, Klompching Gallery, NY
2017
Klompching 10TH Anniversary Exhibition: Part One
2016
Memento Mori, Klompching Gallery, NY
Generosity of Spirit, Fisher Museum USC, Los Angeles, Ca
2014
About Face: The Portrait in Contemporary Photography, Klompching Gallery, NY
Domestic Views, The University of the Arts - Philadelphia, Gallery 1401, Philadelphia, PA
2013
Print Room Showcase, Klompching Gallery, NY
2012
The Unseen Eye, William Hunt, Curator, The Oregon Center for the Arts
2011
The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M .Hunt Collection, The George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography
2010
The Unseen Eye: Photography From The Collection of WM Hunt, Appleton Museum of Art
2007
Degrees of Separation, Peer Gallery, NY
2006
International World, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Art of Getting Ready, 30 Days of Fashion, Hearst Corporation, NY
2004
Reverie, Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX
Miniatures, Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX
Photography Now, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
2002
New Acquisitions/New Work/New Directions 3: Contemporary Selections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Reverie, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
From Here to There, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NY
Imagination's Vibrancy, Galerie Francoise, Baltimore, MD
Near Memory, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
Is That You? Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2000
Eye on 2000, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
Female, curated by Vince Aletti, Wessel O'Connor, NY
In Primary Light, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NY
Fever, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Discoveries of FotoFest, Houston, TX
1998
In Primary Light, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
In Primary Light, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Male, curated by Vince Aletti, Wessel O'Connor Gallery, NY
New Acquisitions, 1997-1998, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Portraits, 19th and 20th Century Photography, Marlborough Gallery, NY
A Collection of Small Works, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1996
Memento Mori, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NY
Treasures for the Community: The Chrysler Collects, 1989-1996, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Baby Pictures, Bravin Post Lee Gallery, NY
Delirium, Ricco Maresca Gallery, NY
Alternative Photography, Ward Nasse Gallery, NY
Publications
Photographic Possibilities, Robert Hirsch, Fourth Edition, 2017
Primary Light and Memento Mori at Klompching Gallery, Elizabeth Avedon Blog, 2016
Memento Mori and Primary Light, Lenscratch, Aline Smithson, 2016
Interview with Frederic Weber: Light and Color, Michael Corbin, 2014
Go + See in Philadelphia, The University of the Arts Presents Frederic Weber's Domestic Views, 2014
The Weight of Light, In Series Gravitas By Frederic Weber, Fabio Falzone, Trendvisions, 2012
The Collection: Flak Photo, 2012
Responses Photo - n238, Janvier 2012
The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection, Aperture, 2011
Forbes Collectors Eye, Contemporary Photography, John Bennette, August 2005
Curve: The Female Nude Now, Rizzoli Press, 2003
Art+ Auction, October 2003
Woodstock Center of Photography Quarterly, Issue 86, 2003
The New York Times, Art in Review, Ken Johnson, May 2002
The Village Voice, Vince Aletti, VOL.XLVII, no. 24, June 2002
The Art Newspaper, VOL.XIII, no 126, June, 2002
B&W Magazine, Issue 19, June, 2002
The New York Magazine, Vol. 35, no. 17, May 2002
The New York Times, Art in Review, Ken Johnson, May 2002
The Village Voice, Vince Aletti, March 16, 1999
Photo Metro, VOL 17, Issue 152, Fall 1998
Aperture 148, Delirium, 1997
American Photo, Volume VIII, no.2
Flash Art, VOL. XXX, no. 192
The New Yorker, VOL. LXXII, no.29
The Village Voice, Vince Aletti, September 17, 1996
New York Magazine, VOL. 29, no. 35
Photonews, May 1998
21st, The Journal of Contemporary Photography, Vol. I, 1998
Fellowships
Art Matters Inc., New York, NY