Leila Weefur

Leila Weefur (He/They/She) is an artist, writer, and curator based in Oakland, CA. As a filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist, they combine film, architecture, writing, and performance to examine the systems of belonging present in Black, queer, gender-variant life. Their video installations explore systems, like religion, ecologies, gender, and race, by deconstructing their history and visually representing the destruction of the symbols present within them.

Weefur’s writing has been published in SEEN by BlackStar Productions, Sming Sming Books, Baest Journal, and more. Weefur has worked with local and national institutions including BlackStar Productions, Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts, CCA’s Wattis Institute, McEvoy Foundation, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Museum of the African Diaspora, and The Kitchen.

Weefur is a lecturer at Stanford University and a member of The Black Aesthetic.