Christopher W Weeks

Artist Statement

Biography

Christopher W. Weeks is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Florida where he has served on the full-time faculty since 2007. Previously, he taught at St Petersburg College, University of Tampa, and University of South Florida (all also in the Tampa area), as well as New Mexico State University, and Dona Ana Community College in Las Cruces, NM.

His artwork and photography have been exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions over the past 25+ years, including venues in New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, DC, Albuquerque, San Diego, and Tampa, as well as Cuauititlan Izcali, Mexico, and Chiang Mai, Thailand. In addition, his work has been reviewed in the NY Times (2007), In These Times Magazine (2006), and Boston’s artsMEDIA Magazine (2005) amongst other periodicals. He was awarded New Mexico State Art Research Grants in 1994 and 1995, and a Hillsborough County Individual Artist Grant in 2007.

From 2010 to 2017 he served as an official photographer for Tampa Roller Derby (formerly the Tampa Bay Derby Darlins) . His roller derby photographs have been published in both 5on5 magazine, the official magazine of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA), and Blood and Thunder Magazine. A monograph of his roller derby photography, entitled "Women Who Fly", was published in August 2018. A second photographic monograph entitled, "The Enchanted Forest", which documented Renaissance Festival cosplayers was published in October 2019.

His artwork often deals with socio-political observations of the world around us fused with pop culture references and presented in a neo-pop style.

Exhibition History (CV)