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Mason Weiss
masonweissart@gmail.com | mweissart.com | Thousand Oaks, CA
 
Education:
2025 Course: Stitching the World Together, taught by Walter Bruno Brix
Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, Austria
2019 BFA, Sculpture, Writing and Literature Minor, Graduated with High Distinction California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
 
Exhibition History:
2025 IMMORTAL Queer Art Fair, The Bureau of Queer Art, Mexico City, Mexico
2025 Lost and Found, Los Angeles Center of Photography, Los Angeles, CA
2025 Unmasked, Rexhibit, online exhibition
2025 Volume 10: Dismantled, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
2025 Icons, Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA. online exhibition
2025 Solo Exhibition, The Body Remembers, The Thread Repairs, Artsy, online exhibition
2025 TRYST Art Fair LA, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2025 The Pride Collection: Chosen Family, Artsy, online exhibition
2024 Solo Exhibition, Bare All, Artsy, online exhibition 
2024 Open Theme, Azalea Arts, online exhibition
2024 Open Theme, Art Collide, online exhibition
2024 The Eternal Network, GlogauAIR, Berlin, Germany (Berlin Art Week) 
2024 Faces and Figures, Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA. online exhibition
2024 Pink Tide: The Bureau of Queer Art | Volume 4, Dama Gallery, Ventura, CA
2024 The Bureau of Queer Art | Volume 3, CLAVO Feria de Arte, Mexico City, Mexico (Mexico City Art Week)
2023 - 2024 The Bureau of Queer Art | Volume 1-4 Group Show, Artsy, online exhibition
2023 Contemporary Art: Folklore, Fakelore, Personal Myths Narratives, Bonita Museum and Cultural Center, San Diego, CA (Juror: Patrick Ela)
2023 INNER SENSE, Art Fluent, online exhibition 
2023 Open Studios (Q1), GlogauAIR, Berlin, Germany
2022 Open Studios (Q4), GlogauAIR, Berlin, Germany
2019 Solo Exhibition, Bare All, Oliver Art Center, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
2019 STORIES - LGBTQ Quarterly Arts Publication & Exhibit | Greater Los Angeles, Dabster Arts Inc., Los Angeles, CA
2019 SHAME, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
2018 Interface: Art Using Technology Using Art, Oliver Art Center, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
2018 State of Mind, Oakland City Hall, Oakland, CA
2018 NASAD Exhibition, Oliver Art Center, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
2018 Fine Arts All-College Honors & Scholarship Awards Exhibition, Oliver Art Center, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
2017 Interface: Art Using Technology Using Art, Oliver Art Center, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
 
Awards:

2025 Homiens Art Prize, Highly Commended Artist
2025 Society of Friends Scholarship, Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts
2022 ArtistGrant.org Grant, 3rd place
2016 - 2019 Diversity Scholarship, California College of the Arts
2018 - 2019 Craft Forward Scholarship, California College of the Arts
2018 All College Honors, California College of the Arts 
 
Residencies:
2025 Pollinator, virtual residency, online
2024 - 2025 The Bureau of Queer Art | InResidency, online
2022 - 2023 GlogauAIR Artist in Residence, Berlin, Germany 
 
Publications and Podcasts:
2025 Artist Feature Catalogue : Volume 12, Featured artist, Titan Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ.
2025 The Bureau of Queer Art | Volume 10: Dismantled, The Bureau of Queer Art, Mexico City, Mexico. pages 62-63. print.
2025 The Bureau of Queer Art | Volume 9: Pride Edition 2025 | TRYST Art Fair, The Bureau of Queer Art, Mexico City, Mexico. pages 12-13. print.
2024 Divide Magazine Issue 12, London, England. pages 160-161. print.
2024 The Bureau of Queer Art | Volume 4: Pink Tide, The Bureau of Queer Art, Mexico City, Mexico. pages 112-113. print.
2024 The Bureau of Queer Art | Volume 3, The Bureau of Queer Art, Mexico City, Mexico. pages 68-69. print.
2024 Metamorphosis in Sculpture: Mason Weiss’s Queer Odyssey, The Bureau of Queer Art, podcast, (Interview by: Micheal Swank)
2023 The Bureau of Queer Art | Volume 2, Featured artist, The Bureau of Queer Art, Mexico City, Mexico. pages 14-19. print.
2023 Trans Art Magazine: Rebirth, Bitter Pill Press, Corvallis, OR. pages 34-35. print.
2023 Open Studios (Q2 catalogue), GlogauAIR, Berlin, Germany
2023 Open Studios (Q1 catalogue), GlogauAIR, Berlin, Germany
2022 Open Studios (Q4 catalogue), GlogauAIR, Berlin, Germany
2019 STORIES - LGBTQ Quarterly Arts Publication & Exhibit | Greater Los Angeles, Dabster Arts Inc., Los Angeles, CA