Joanna Weber was acting curator of the Department of European and Contemporary art and acting assistant curator of the Department of African Art at the Yale University Art Gallery.
Her exhibitions included Philip Guston: A New Alphabet, the late transition in 2000; Modernists: Robert Mangold, Ellsworth Kelly, Ad Reinhardt, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Louise Nevelson, Robert Motherwell, Agnes Martin in 1998; and Photorealism: Ralph Goings, Robert Bechtle, Robert Cottingham, Bruce Everett, Idelle Weber, Chuck Close and Sylvia Plimack Mangold in 1997.
During her Marfa residency, she worked on a book on Agnes Martin entitled Space for the Sacred.
She was the associate curator at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art from 2003-2007 and lived in Sarasota, Florida.