Austyn Weiner

Austyn Weiner was born in 1989 in Miami, Florida. She studied photography, fine art, and film at the University of Michigan's Stamps School of Art and Design beginning around 2010, then spent time at Tel Aviv University studying film, before attending Parsons School of Design in New York around 2013. None of the available sources document a completed degree.

She began showing in Los Angeles and Miami in the late 2010s, with solo exhibitions at Ibid Gallery, Los Angeles (2017), and Bill Brady, Miami (2018), and a solo show at The Journal Gallery, New York (2019). In 2017 she also curated and organized "We The People," a group exhibition at Werkartz in Los Angeles benefiting the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, which Artforum selected as a Critics' Pick. Her profile rose through solo shows with Carl Kostyal in London (2020), Konig Galerie in Berlin and Seoul (2021 to 2022), and a run of solo exhibitions with MASSIMODECARLO in Paris, London, and Hong Kong (2022 to 2024). In 2025 Levy Gorvy Dayan presented her debut solo exhibition with the gallery, "Half Way Home," in New York. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

Weiner's work has been covered in Artforum and Artnet. Her gallery, MASSIMODECARLO, describes her mature work as a form of lyrical abstraction built from glyph-like characters and text set against bright color fields, executed in oil on linen at a heroic scale. Her earlier curatorial project, "We The People" (2017), received an Artforum Critics' Pick, an early sign of critical attention that predates her current gallery representation.

Weiner's auction record is GBP 226,800, paid at Phillips London on 14 October 2022 for "Working Through Not Knowing A Damn Thing About Any Thing," sold in the 20th Century and Contemporary Art Evening Sale. Aggregated third-party auction data (Art.salon) recorded roughly eight public auction results for the artist as of that period, with most other results, including "Crowd Pleaser" at Phillips New York in December 2020, well below the record price. This is a young secondary market: her first recorded auction appearances date to around 2020, and the small number of transactions means any single sale can move the picture considerably. Collectors reported in press coverage have included Gigi Hadid and Philip Niarchos.

There is no catalogue raisonne for Weiner, and her secondary market is recent and small, with roughly eight recorded auction results as of the most recent data available and no verified sales after her October 2022 record. Her institutional footprint currently rests with several Asian museums and foundations, including the Aurora Museum in Shanghai, the Deji Art Museum in Nanjing, and the He Art Museum in Guangdong Province, along with the Green Family Art Foundation in Dallas, rather than with encyclopedic Western museums. The rapid escalation in gallery representation, from smaller project spaces to MASSIMODECARLO and Levy Gorvy Dayan within roughly a decade, is the clearest signal of institutional confidence in her work, while the limited auction history is the main reason to treat any single price point as provisional rather than a settled market level.