Michon Weeks regards drawing and painting as a practice of attention. Through drawing and painting, she seeks to see things as they are.
Her current work begins outdoors, where she draws the built and natural landscape around her home in Northfield, Minnesota, as well as the places she visits. These drawings become the foundation for studio paintings in egg tempera, oil, and acrylic.
For Weeks, painting is an act of unconcealing—opening perception to dimensions of experience that might otherwise remain unseen. Her paintings hold the visible and the unseen together.
Weeks earned a BA in Art from Iowa State University and an MFA in Drawing and Painting from the University of Minnesota. Since 2012, she has taught drawing and painting at St. Olaf College, where she is Associate Professor of Practice in the Department of Art and Art History.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Mystic Topographies, Flaten Art Museum, Northfield, MN
2025 Route, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2024 Between Dreams, Schaefer Gallery, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN
2024 Crossing the Visible, Carnegie Art Center, Mankato, MN
2019 Airplane, Boombox, Car, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Moonlight, Dreamsong, Minneapolis, MN
2026 Untitled 20, Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
2025 North of the 45th, DeVos Art Museum, Marquette, MI
2025 Radiant, Chautauqua Institute, Chautauqua, NY
2023 Imperfect Geometry, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2014 MN Biennial, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
EDUCATION
MFA in Drawing and Painting, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
BA in Art, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
New American Paintings, Issue 173 (Juror’s Pick selected by Rosario Güiraldes, Walker Art Center, 2025)
Sixth Finch, Spring Issue (2025)
I Like Your Work Studio Visit & Podcast (2024)
PUBLIC PROJECTS & GRANTS
2017-2024 Walker Art Center, Skyline Mini-Golf: Ball Aboard, Minneapolis, MN
2025 Creative Arts Collective Grant, Lilly Endowment
2019, 1998 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
DeVos Art Museum, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI
St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
Marshall-Lyon County Library, Marshall, MN
Fairview Ridges Hospital, Burnsville, MN