Fred Weber (b. 1955) and lives in Nyack, NY  has been a producing artist for more than thirty 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

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

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pa.

The Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Ma.

EXHIBITIONS

2026

Revenants, Klompching Gallery, NY

2023

Vivid, Klompching Gallery, NY

2022

Winter Salon, Klompching Gallery, NY

2020

Winter Works, Klompching Gallery, NY

2017

10TH Anniversary Exhibition: Part One, Klompching Gallery, NY

2016

Memento Mori, Klompching Gallery, NY

Generosity of Spirit, USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

2014

Domestic Views, Gallery 1401: The University of the Artst, Philadelphia, PA

2013

Print Room Showcase, Klompching Gallery, NY

2012

The Unseen Eye, William Hunt (Curator), The Oregon Center for the Arts, OR

2011

The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection, George Eastman House, NY

2010

The Unseen Eye: Photography From The Collection of WM Hunt, Appleton Museum of Art, FL

2007

Degrees of Separation, Peer Gallery, NY

2006

Immaterial 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, LACMA, CA

Reverie, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NY

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, Vince Aletti (Curator), 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, Vince Aletti (Curator), 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

SELECTED PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS

Photographic Possibilities: Robert Hirsch Fourth Edition, A Focal Press Book

Interview with Frederic Weber: Light and Color, Michael Corbin, 2014

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

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

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

American Photo, Volume VIII, no.2

Flash Art, VOL. XXX, no.192

The New Yorker, VOL. LXXII, no.29

New York Magazine, VOL. 29, no. 35

Photonews, May 1998

FELLOWSHIPS

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