Lester Julian Merriweather (born 1978) is an American visual artist and curator, known for his collage.
[1] Lester Julian Merriweather was born in 1978 in Memphis, Tennessee,[2] into an African-American family.
[3][4] In response to a lack of support and spaces for Black artists in Memphis, Merriweather, working alongside Frank D. Robinson Jr., Vitus Shell, and Jerry and Terry Lynn (or Twins) created the NIA Artist Collective in 2001.
[5][6] He worked as a curatorial director at the Martha and Robert Fogelman Galleries at the University of Memphis.
[4][11] He has exhibited his work at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, Poland.