Edward Weiss

Edward Weiss was born in Manhattan, raised in Brooklyn, and lived most of his life in New York City, before moving to Baltimore, MD in 2012 Active in the 1980s and 1990s, East Village performance art and rock scene, his serial, The Onyx Fool ran for three months at the legendary club 8 BC. His work as a performer, and creator, has been shown at numerous venues including: The Pyramid Club, The Kitchen, BAM, La Mama, Theater for The New City, and The Mark Taper Theater Complex in LA. His visual art including the Modern Venus series has been shown at numerous galleries in New York, as well as Consolidated Works and Town Hall in Seattle, where they were featured in the part of the first and second Seattle Erotic Arts fair. His illustrated book Peter Pigeon of Snug Harbor won the 2006 COAHSI Award for Literary Excellence sponsored by JP Morgan Chase and Poets & Writers as an unpublished manuscript. It was published in 2009 by Rocky Hollow Press. His public art piece, The Forgotten History of Staten Island, sponsored by the New York State Council of the Arts, appeared on the streets of New York in 2011. In 2013 he founded the Campaign to Keep Baltimore Inexplicable.