Artist Charisse Pearlina Weston joins curator Lumi Tan for a conversation on Zoom.

Charisse Pearlina Weston

Charisse Pearlina Weston is a conceptual artist working across sculpture, writing, installation and photography. Through concealment, repetition and enfoldment, she frames Black interior life as a site of resistance. Often using glass for its dual fragility and resilience, Weston embeds poetic, historical and autobiographical fragments within folds that protect and obscure meaning. A Whitney ISP and Studio Museum in Harlem alumna, she holds degrees from the University of North Texas, University of Edinburgh and UC Irvine. Her work has been featured in the 2024 Whitney Biennial and SITE SANTA FE, with recent solos at Queens Museum, Moody Center for the Arts and Moss Arts Center, among other prominent institutions.

Lumi Tan

Lumi Tan is an independent curator and writer based in New York City, specializing in interdisciplinary exhibitions and performances. Current and upcoming projects include those at Doosan Gallery, Seoul; Performance Space New York; and the 2026 Converge45 city-wide exhibition in Portland, Oregon. She has been the curator of the Focus section at Frieze New York since 2024, and from 2022–2024, she was the Curatorial Director of Luna Luna, a revival of the world’s first art amusement park created by André Heller in 1987. Tan was Senior Curator at The Kitchen, where over a twelve-year tenure, she organized over 100 exhibitions and performances. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Artforum, Frieze, Mouse, Cura, Art in America, and many exhibition catalogues and artist monographs.