SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2016
Postcard from Algiers (via mail, launched April 2016)

2010
2010 Wall Calendar (collaboration with Vi Ha), CANAL, Los Angeles

2007
Bridge Group [She first wrote me during one of her trips abroad, telling how she liked the fragility of those moments suspended in time—those memories whose purpose seemed to have no other function that to leave behind memories. She described these moments as the shattered bits of solace from a world where everything was changing around her all while the day sky stayed blue.], Apartment 2, Los Angeles

2005
<16–26 March 2005: an exhibition given in partial fulfillment of the Master of Fine Arts Degree>, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California

2004
On Longing & Leaving, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California

Pantone Drawings: In Memoriam Milton Resnick, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California

2003
Variations on a Theme by J.M. Whistler, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California

…henceforth all shall be darkness. (The Seven Doors of Béla Bártók’s and Béla Balázs’ A Kékszakállú herceg vára [Duke Bluebeard’s Castle], opus 11), Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021
We Write To You About Africa, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor

2016
Orange and Blue: An University of Illinois Alumni Exhibition, CB1-G, CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles

Radio Danièle: A Tribute to Tony Conrad, Kunsthalle Bregenz, Austria (audio performance)

2013
Critology: Considering the Art of the Critic/Curator, The Fine Art Museum at Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina

SASSAS presents Fix-It-Up Too, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles

2012
Critology: Considering the Art of the Critic/Curator, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles

2011
Some People Like to Go Out Dancing, Flag Stop 2011, Torrance, California

2009
Bookmeat, Side Street Projects, Los Angeles

Monster Drawing Rally 2009, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

OPERA, Five Thirty Three, Los Angeles (exh. cat.)

2008
Monster Drawing Rally 2008, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Party Favors, Bonelli Contemporary, Los Angeles

Some indespensible concepts for understanding this beautiful exhibition: Bret Nicely, Heather Rasmussen and Dawson Weber, Confederacy for Creative Ephemera, in conjunction with Circus Gallery, Los Angeles

2007
…drawling, stretching, and fainting in coils…, Festspiele+ 2007, Pinakothek der Moderne and Bayerische Staatsoper Nationaltheater, Munich, Germany (exh. cat.)

Radio Danièle, Radio LoRa in collaboration with Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland; Città Del Capo Radio Metropolitana in Collaboration with Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy

2005
Supersonic: Los Angeles Design Center, Los Angeles Design Center, Los Angeles

No Pictures Please, Cartelle Gallery, Marina del Rey, California

Wit, Wisdom and Invention: Reflecting on Benjamin Franklin, Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, New Jersey

2004
Ink, Noose & the Sea: Bret Nicely, Jill Spector & Dawson Weber, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California

PERFORMANCES & SPECIAL PROJECTS

2007
On-air guest with Christopher Williams and John Kelsey, Radio Danièle on PERFORMA Radio, WFMU, Jersey City, NJ in conjunction with PERFORMA 07, New York

ARTIST’S BOOKS

2007
Bridge Group: The Falls View Bridge Series, self-published in conjunction with Apartment 2, Los Angeles

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Andrews, Kathryn. “Conversations… with Kathryn Andrews.” NYFA Current (9 January 2008). Available at http://current.nyfa.org/post/73252516620/conversations-kathryn-andrews.

Deeds, Kip. “Dawson Weber: An Unfolding View.” Available at https://www.kipdeeds.com/2012/04/dawson-weber-an-unfolding-view/.

Forbes, Carlee S. “Exhibition Review: We Write to You About Africa and Wish You Were Here: African Art and Restitution.” African Arts (Spring 2023), 86–88.

Gorton, Jenia. “Opera at 533.” ArtSlant (4 May 2009).

Nicholson, Joshua and Astrid Cole. “‘We Write To You About Africa’: UMMA exhibition expands and highlights African art collection.” The Michigan Daily (January 16, 2003). Available at https://www.michigandaily.com/campus-life/we-write-to-you-about-africa-umma-exhibition-expands-and-highlights-african-art-collection/

Sonna, Birgit. “All About Alice.” TAKT (June-July 2007): 38-41.

___ and Diana Thater. “Diana Thater & Brigit Sonna: Interview May 28, 2007.”

Thater, Diana. …drawling, stretching and fainting in coils…. Exh. cat. Munich, Germany: Bayerische Staatsoper and Pinakothek der Moderne, 2008.

WRITINGS

Fineberg, Jonathan and Josef Helfenstein, ed. Drawings of Choice from a New York Collection. Exh. cat. Champaign, Illinois: Krannert Art Museum, 2002.

This Is Not To Be Looked At: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008.

Weber, Dawson. “Pauline Oliveros.” WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007.