- Active: Memphis (Shelby County)
- Origin: b. 1978, Memphis, TN
- Region: West
- Mediums: Collage, Mixed Media, Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Printmaking, Drawing, Installation
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Lester Merriweather
Lester Julian Merriweather is a Memphis-based visual artist. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. He holds an MFA from Memphis College of Art, and a BA from Jackson State University. Merriweather has exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. at various venues such as the Studio Museum in Harlem (NYC); Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; TOPS Gallery, Crosstown Arts, and Powerhouse (Memphis); DiverseWorks (Houston); Stella Jones Art Gallery (New Orleans); and Atlanta Contemporary. He has also exhibited internationally at the Zacheta National Gallery in Warsaw, Poland.
Merriweather served as the first Curatorial Director of the Jones Gallery and the Martha & Robert Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art at the University of Memphis from 2010-2016. He worked on the Board of Directors for the Number, Inc. independent journal, where he created the Art of the South exhibition series. He is a founding member of the ArtsMemphis Artist Advisory Council and the artsAccelerator Grant Panel. Merriweather served as the Curatorial Consultant for the PPF Contemporary Art Collection, which is currently housed at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.
Merriweather most recently participated in Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage. Originating at the Frist Art Museum, the exhibition travels to the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.
CRAFTING BLACKNESS 
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