Curriculum vitae
Education
2011-2014 Syracuse University. Syracuse, New York, Master of Fine Arts
2002-2005 Maryland Institute College of Art. Baltimore, Maryland, Bachelor of Fine Arts
1998-2002 Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. Dallas, Texas
Professional Affiliations
2025-Present Community Teaching Artist, ArtsActivate Grant Program, City of Dallas
2024-Present Represented by Ro2 Art Gallery
2024-Present Member of TASA (Texas Art Schools Association)
2023-Present Scenic Artist at Ochre House Theater. Dallas, Texas
2021-Present Executive Producer of the Hockaday Film Festival
2016-Present Executive Producer Southern Gothic Productions, Film Production Company
2021-2022 Represented by Craighead Green Gallery
2019-2021 Exposition Gallery Owner and Director
2016-2021 Executive Producer of the ESD Film Festival
2005-2010 Film and Studio Arts Instructor. Ball High School. Galveston, Texas
2000-2008 Printmakers assistant to Dr. Eric Avery MD
Professional Film Experience (And Selected Awards)
Director/Producer. Song of The Cicada. Documentary Feature Film. Galveston, Texas
2025 Song of the Cicada, Screening at Texas Theater. Dallas, Texas
2024 Song of the Cicada, Screening at UT Dallas, University Theater. Dallas, Texas
2023 Burbank International Film Festival, Best Feature Documentary
2023 Atlanta Docufest, Best Biographical Documentary
2023 Berlin FFI, Official Selection
2023 Santa Monica Film Festival, Official Selection
2023 Filmfort, Treefort Music Fest Boise Idaho, Official Selection
2023 New York City Independent Film Festival, Official Selection
2023 Nice International Film Festival, Official Selection
2023 Sedona International Film Festival, Official Selection
2022 Austin Film Festival, Audience Choice Award, Feature Documentary
2022 Lone Star Film Festival, Best Documentary
2022 London Independent Film Awards, Winner Best Documentary
2022 Toronto Documentary Feature and Short Film Festival, Winner Best Feature Film
2022 Bushwick Film Festival, Official Selection
2022 Oxford FIlm Festival, Official Selection
2022 10th Log Cinema Art Films, Official Selection
2022 Doc Fest, SF Documentary Festival, Official Selection
2022 Madrid International Film Festival, Official Selection
2020 Director, Music Video for “Better Days” by Constant Bop. Austin, Texas. Available On Demand.
2016 Director of t Megafauna Music Video, Austin, Texas
2015 Song of the Cicada (Inner Sanctum), Film screening. Austin Film Society, Austin Public. Austin, Texas
2011 Drug, White Denim. Austin, Texas. Director, Music Video
2009 Ike: A Documentary, The Story of a Torn City. Producer and film instructor, Galveston, Texas.
2008 Don’t Look That Way At It, White Denim. Director, Music Video. Austin, Texas.
Exhibition Work
Solo (Selected)
2025 Look What We Have Here. Ro2 Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2023 Tableau. Cluley Projects, Dallas, Texas
2022 Robert Weiss. The Proletariat Gallery & Public House. Galveston, Texas
2021 Techne. 2506 Sylvan Ave. Dallas, Texas
2020 No Feeling is Final. Exposition Gallery. Dallas, Texas
2017 Symbolic Gestures. Giles Gallery. Eastern Kentucky University. Richmond, Kentucky
2016 If Things Work Out. Iron Tail Gallery. Omaha, Nebraska
2016 The Grand Illusion: Variations on a Theme. Third Coast Gallery. Galveston Texas
2014 The Way Out: MFA 2014, Syracuse University Art Galleries. Syracuse, New York
2012 Robert Weiss. Michael Sickler Gallery, Syracuse University. Syracuse, New York
Group (Selected)
2026 Five X Seven. Selected Works. Tin District Gallery, Dallas Tx
2025 Chaos. Ro2 Art Gallery, Dallas Tx
2025 Oak Cliff Art Walk. East Dock. Dallas Tx
2025 Faculty Exhibition, Jennifer and John Eagle Gallery. Dallas, Texas
2024 Witkin and Weiss: Wonderful Demands. (Jerome Witkin and Robert Weiss) Ro2 Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2024 Art Walk West: Selected Works by Gallery Artists. Ro2 Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2024 The Horror. SP/N Gallery, University of Texas. Richardson, Texas
2023 Art 214. Bath House Cultural Center. Group Exhibition. Dallas, Texas
2022 Art 214. Oak Cliff Cultural Center. Group Exhibition, Dallas, Texas
2022 Art 214. Latino Cultural Center. Group Exhibition, Dallas, Texas
2022 Art 214. Moody Performance Hall. Dallas, Texas
2022 Art 214. South Dallas Cultural Center. Dallas, Texas
2022 AAMD Underground Art Show. African American Museum, Dallas, Texas
2021 Texas Now 2021 Online Exhibition. Artspace111. Ft. Worth, Texas
2021 8th Annual Texas Juried Exhibition. Artspace111. Ft. Worth, Texas
2021 23rd Annual Group Exhibition. The MAC. Dallas, Texas
2021 Ritual. Exposition Gallery. Dallas, Texas
2021 Art 214 Juried Exhibition. South Dallas Cultural Center. Dallas, Texas
2021 Art 214 Juried Exhibition. Oak Cliff Cultural Center. Dallas, Texas
2021 Art 214 Juried Exhibition. Latino Cultural Center. Dallas, Texas
2021 Annual Group Exhibition. Craighead Green Gallery. Dallas, Texas
2021 Medallion. Exposition Gallery. Dallas, Texas
2020 Ongoing. Exposition Gallery. Dallas, Texas
2020 Tin District 516. 516 Gallery. Dallas, Texas
2019 Come Together. Lost Pines Art Center. Bastrop, Texas
2019 Maelstrom. Exposition Gallery. Dallas, Texas
2019 Undergo. Exposition Gallery. Dallas, Texas
2019 The Figure Redefined. Third Coast Gallery. Galveston, Texas
2017 Artist as Teacher, Teacher as Artist. (Independent schools in Dallas)
2016 Invitational Show. St. Louis University. St. Louis University Art Gallery. St Louis, Missouri
2016 Three. Art Room Gallery (Shawn Vales and Jave Yoshimoto). Ft. Worth, Texas
2015 Lehon: A Year After. Gelbke Gallery, Hiram College. Hiram, Ohio
2014 Day of the Bed. (2 person exhibition with Peggy Weiss) Canopy Studios. Austin Texas
2014 Inner Sanctum. (Film screening of Documentary) Fisterra Studio. Austin, Texas
2013 Texas National. Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas
2011 Bird Library, The Biblio Gallery. Syracuse, New York
2011 Big Bend, Michael Sickler Galler. Syracuse, New York
2011 If These Walls Could Talk, Group Exhibition. Michael Sickler Gallery. Syracuse, New York
2010 Texas National. Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas
Juried Exhibitions
2020
Camelback Gallery. 1st Place Award. Portraits 2020 Painting Award Exhibition
2013
Texas National. Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas
2010
Texas National. Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas
Lectures
2018
Couples portrait drawing workshop at Utopia Festival. Burnett, Texas
2017
“Symbolic Gestures” Lecture at Eastern Kentucky University. Richmond, Kentucky
2016
“If Things Work Out” Lecture at the University of Nebraska. Omaha, Nebraska
“Film and Painting” Lecture at the University of St. Louis. St. Louis, Missouri
2015
“Mentorship” Chapel Talk at The Episcopal School of Dallas. Dallas, Texas
Scholarships, Grants and Awards
2020
Alfred and Trafford Klots International Program for Artists, MICA Artist Residency Program in Brittany, Lehon, France. June to July 2020
2017
Alfred and Trafford Klots International Program for Artists, MICA Artist Residency Program in Brittany, Lehon, France. June to July 2017
Presenters Grant, Shipping of art and travel to Eastern Kentucky University. Dallas, Texas
2016
Austin Film Society Grant, Film production grant. Austin, Texas
2014
Ginsberg-Klaus Award Fellowship, Los Angeles, California
2013
Creative Opportunity Grant, Live model grant. Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Artists residency, Deer Isle, Maryland
2012
Drawing Research trip to Chihuahua Desert. Syracuse University. Syracuse, New York
2008
Figure Drawing Research, Spring Studios NYC. Galveston ISD and Spring Studio. New York, New York
Collections
Lunatic in a Yard 2020, Private collection of Derrick Ward
No Man’s Land 2021, Private collection of Caroline Castelli
Portrait of Nana 2021, Private collection of Morgan Revier
Portrait of Jackson 2021, Private collection of Chad P. Mitchell
The Bachelor’s Arrival 2020, Private collection of Terry Darilek
Churchill (Study) 2019, Private collection of President George W. Bush
Plural Convictions 2018, Holding Pattern (Study) 2019, Private collection of Terry Darilek
Swept Landscape 2016, Private collection of Jerome Witkin
Restoration Ruin 2016, Private collection of Lara McKinney
Dale Carter in his Parlor (Study) 2015, Private collection of Jennifer Ritter
Light! 2015, Private collection of Michael Hammett
Tunnel 2014, Mairie de Léhon/City Hall of Léhon, Brittany, France
Abstract #8 2014, Private collection of Christian and Emily Pyle
Hollywood Film Stars 2014, Private collection of Liana Liberato
Woman with Bird 2012, Private collection of Mark Greenwalt
Expulsion 2006, Private collection of Christopher and Jane Shipley
Publications
Robert Weiss: If Things Work Out. Mahoney, Robert. http://www.flatlanders.org/blog/2017/4/5/robert-weiss-if-things-work-out. (review)
The Art Room’s: THREE. Koerble, Barbara. https://glasstire.com/2016/07/25/the-art-rooms-three/. (review)
The Art Room’s: THREE. http://www.artroom.space/three. Art Room 2016
Witkin & Witkin. Mexico City : Photo Museo Cuatro Caminos, 2016. Edited by Trisha Ziff (The Student (Painting the Painter), Essay about working with my mentor, Jerome Witkin) Pg. 242-245. Painting of J. Witkin
MONDAY, MONDAY. Crook, Elizabeth. Picador Books. New York, New York. 2015 (Cover painting)
Good Morning America on ABC. Roberts, Robin. New York, New York. ABC Morning show. 2007
One Year After Hurricane Ike. Burnett, John. NPR’s All Things Considered 2007
"Friday LIVE" NET Nebraska NPR radio station. Randall, Genevieve. Interview about solo art show and film screening at Iron Tail Gallery in Omaha, Nebraska. 2016
Inner Sanctum. Executive Producer/Director. One Story Productions, Austin Texas 2017. (Film)
Wormland. Executive Producer/Director/Cinematography. Modern Plow Productions, Paris, France. 2017 (Film)