Eric Weeks

Eric Weeks is an artist using photography and video, a curator, and Chair of the Photography & Video Department at the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. He has exhibited his photographs and videos internationally, including in Australia, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Morocco, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, and the United States. His work is in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Maison Européene de la Photographie, Bibliothèque Nationale, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Sir Elton John Collection, among others.

He is the author of two monographs, World Was in the Face of the Beloved and A Rose By Any Other Name. Portfolios have appeared in Zoom, Photo +, Fahrenheit, and Dear Dave. Awards include an Individual Creative Artist Fellowship Grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts; Open Call Winner, Art Speaks Out, ikonoTV, Berlin; Finalist, Black Maria Film Festival, Jersey City; Semi-Finalist, G2 Green Earth Film Festival, Los Angeles; and Award for Portraiture, The Society of Publication Designers, New York.

Weeks has recently curated exhibitions in China, New York City, and South Korea. His short film epistrophy was an Official Selection of the New Filmmakers New York Film Festival in 2020. The Wind Dies The Sun Sets, a film about energy extraction in Pennsylvania made in collaboration with Joshua Reiman, will exhibit at the Vault Gallery, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg in 2021.

Weeks received an MFA from Yale University and a BFA from the School of Visual Arts. His work is represented by Galerie Catherine & André Hug in Paris.