See Deborah's Artwork:
EXHIBITIONS CURATED BY THE ARTIST:
Into the 3rd Dimension (Solo), Alpert Jewish Community Center, Long Beach, CA 2023
Incarceration (Solo), Alpert Jewish Community Center, Long Beach, CA 2020
Bent Needle Collective, Out of Darkness, Pacific NW Quilt and Fiber Art Museum, WA 2019
Chroma (Solo), permanent installation School on Wheels HQ, Los Angeles, CA 2018
Abstraction (Solo), Mission Viejo Civic Center, Mission Viejo, CA, 2018
Elemental (Solo), Branch Gallery, Inglewood, CA 2017
From the Streets to the Skies (Quilts on the Wall), Branch Gallery, Inglewood, CA 2017
Deborah Weir (Solo), Hagafen Winery, Napa, CA 2016-17
Deborah Weir (Solo), Alpert Jewish Community Center, Long Beach, CA 2016
Confluence, Palos Verdes Art Center, CA, 2013; International Textile Art, Paterson, NJ 2013; Temporary Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA 2014; Savoir Faire, Redondo Beach, CA 2015; New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA, 2016
Fiber Forward, PV Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA 2013
Quilts on the Wall at the Hangar, Santa Monica, CA 2012
Deborah Weir (Solo), Hangar Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2011
Three Perspectives, Performing Arts Center, Redondo Beach, CA, 2010
Deborah Weir: Textiles, (Solo), C1D Gallery, Long Beach, CA, 2008
Deborah Weir: A Career (Solo), STRS Gallery, Sacramento, CA, 2007
SELECTED JURIED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023
CA 101, Redondo Beach, CA Receding Figures
Alcatraz #5 SAQA online Incarceration exhibit
Industry/Luxury, Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts, Bethlehem, PA
Touch the Sky, Carlsbad, CA (touring)
PHES Gallery (Invitational), Carlsbad, CA
12 Cycles Contra Costa College, San Pablo, CA
2022
CA 101, Redondo Beach, CA
Layers, Art Cloth Network touring through 2025
Excellence in Quilts 1st prize Fiber Art Now (touring through 2023)
Visions 2022 San Diego, CA
Australia Wide 8 touring through 2024
Forever Changed, Blue Line Gallery N. CA SAQA regional, Sacramento,
Australia Wide 8 (OzQuilt Network) touring through 2024
Threads of Inspiration (SAQA regional)
Advocacy Project Collaboration with Bangladeshi embroiderers
Visions 2022, Visions Museum of Textile Art, San Diego, CA
Forever Changed (SAQA Regional)
Open Space (ACN exhibit) Austin Airport, TX
2021
Textile Arts LA online exhibit https://www.instagram.com/p/CMHuBiuFTNX
Visions Members online https://visionsartmuseum.org/member-challenge-exhibition/
The Language of Fiber Art, Fiber Artists of San Antonio, TX
Sister Artists Collaboration with Ghanaian embroiderers, Textile Museum, Washington DC
2020
Southern California Contemporary Quilts, Oceanside, CA
Quilt Visions 2020
No Limits, SAQA's first online gallery
Sister Artists Collaboration with Mali embroiderers, Textile Museum, Washington DC
Keeping the Faith, Paso Robles, CA
Full Circle, Art Cloth Network through 2021
2019
Shifting Tides: Convergence in Cloth, SAQA, touring all 7 Pacific-adjacent states
South African Annual Quilt Festival, Fourways, Santon, South Africa
Elements, Marin Artists Gallery, San Rafael, CA
Australia Wide Six, touring Australia
The Space Between, Art Cloth Network through 2021
2018
Smolder, Material View, Miami International Airport, Miami, FL
2017
ArtQuilt Australia 2017, Tasmania, AU
Strings Attached, Coastline College, Newport Beach, CA
Evolutions, Rocky Mt. Quilt Museum, Golden, CO
Unbound, Art Cloth Network through 2020
2016
Gyre#11, Water is Life, UNHQ Geneva, Kean U. Human Rights Gallery, through-2019
2015
International FiberArts VII, Sebastopol, CA, through 2016
National Fiber Directions, Wichita, KS, 2015, 2013, 2009
Climate Crisis: Solutions, Water Street Studios, Batavia, Il
Cosmos, Imagining the Universe, AnnMarie Arts Center, Dowell, MD
Textiel Festival, Leiden, The Netherlands
2014
Australia Wide 4, touring throughout Australia, through 2016
Opening Exhibit, San Fernando Valley Arts Alliance
Art Quilts Celebrating 25 Years QSDS, Ross Art Museum, Columbus, OH
Infinity Art Gallery Fiber Arts (online)
Material View, Art Cloth Network through 2017
2013
Dreams from the Old Testament, Tychman Shapiro Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Confluence, New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA; Savoir Faire, Redondo Beach, CA; TempContemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA; International Textile Art, Paterson, NJ; Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA through 2016
ArtRageous Quilts, Chandler Center for Arts, Chandler, AZ, and 2012
Art Quilt Australia, People, Place, Nation, Canberra, Australia through 2016
Interpretations, Art Cloth Network, toured US through 2016
Page Turner, SomeThings Looming Gallery, Reading, PA
2012
Quilt Festival, PNW Quilt and Textile Museum, La Conner, WA
American Archeological Society Meeting, San Diego, CA
Interpretations, Art Cloth Network through 2015
2011
SAQA Regional, Front Porch Gallery, Carlsbad, CA
Beyond the Line, Art Cloth Network through 2014
2010
Innovations in Fiber Art V, Merit Award: Innovations, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
Korean/American Joomchi, Cheongju Craft Museum, South Korea through 2011
Art of the Stitch, Visions Gallery, San Diego, CA
Frontiers Where Art Meets Science, SAQA US, England, France through 2011
Uncommon Threads, American Jewish University, Los Angeles, CA through 2012
2009
Contemporary Quilts, The Muckenthaler, Fullerton, CA
Eye of the Quilter, International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX
Art Quilts Lowell, Lowell, MA
Festival of Quilts, Birmingham, England
Nothing New, Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN
National Fiber Directions, Wichita, KS, 2009. 2013, 2015
Fibrations, SAQA, toured US through 2010
A Sense of Humor, “That’s Amore” featured in event catalog, SAQA, toured US through 2010
All Media show at the Palos Verdes Art Center, invited docent, Palo Verdes, CA
2008
Shoreline Stitchers Showcase, “Best in Contemporary Embroidery” Palos Verdes, CA, 2008
National Small Art Quilt Works, Main Street Gallery, Groton, NY, 2008, 2009, 2010
West Coast Wonders (International Quilt Festival, Inc.), through 2009
A Sense of Time (Studio Art Quilt Associates), through 2009
Countdown to Peace, Ayden, NC, 2008– End of War
A Sense of Time, SAQA, toured US through 2010
National Small Art Quilts, Main St. Gallery, Groton, NY, 2008, 2009, 2010
2007 (and earlier)
Kaiser Hospital, Panorama City, CA (permanent collection), 2007
Handweavers’ Guild of America’s Convergence, 1997, 2000, 2007, 2008
PIQF, Santa Clara, CA, 1997, 2003, 2009, 2011, 2015
Quilts on the Wall touring exhibits, 2003-2019
RECOGNITION in PRINT:
2022 FIRST PLACE PRIZE Excellent in Quilts from Fiber Art Now
2021 Cover of the Art Cloth Network catalog for Unfolding 2021 Textile FibreForum Sept. ’21 Feature Article
2021 Into the Third Dimension: 75 minute Zoom presentation (Quilts on the Wall; SAQA; Open Invitation)
2021 Art Quilting Studio (Winter) feature article
2019 Cover of the Art Cloth Network catalog for Unbound
2019 Art Quilting Studio (Summer) feature article
2018 DownUnderTextiles (Australia) article
2015 Consultant on The Banquet of Donny and Ari, scenes from the opera, by poet Naomi Guttman. Brick Books Press
Recognition Online: (Click or copy and paste the addresses below):
• EXHIBIT https://visionsartmuseum.org/member-challenge-exhibition/
• EXHIBIT https://www.instagram.com/p/CMHuBiuFTNX/
• EXHIBIT https://www.viewarts.org/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/2021-quilts-unlimited/quilts-unlimited-online-exhibition/
• INTERVIEW https://createwhimsy.com/projects/spotlight-deborah-weir-fiber-artist/
• ARTICLES BY DEBORAH https://www.behance.net/gallery/91341015/Articles-by-and-about-Deborah-Weir?
• AUSTRALIA EZINE FEATURE https://www.flipsnack.com/fibreartsnewsletter/fibre-arts-australia-x9qdseapma.html
• TEXTILE FIBRE FORUM https://www.artwearpublications.com.au/product/single-issue-textile-fibre-forum-magazine-143/
• FIBRE ARTS TAKE TWO http://exhibition.fibreartstaketwo.com/books/kyfv
• WEAVING WORKSHOP https://theweavingworkshop.com/2019/01/31/deborah-weir-awakening-the-mind/