Born in Monrovia, Liberia, Wesley is an artist and writer living in Philadelphia. His practice addresses cultural memory, collective history and the nature of his immigrant experience.
Wesley is a graduate of Penn State Altoona where he received his degree in Visual Arts Studies. He currently works as the Spiegel-Wilks Curatorial Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, and as a lead teaching artist for Color Wheels, a mobile art education initiative organized by Fleisher Art Memorial. Wesley has been a Senior Curatorial and Research Fellow at Slought since Summer 2014.
Current projects include "The Living Library," a public art initiative and pop-up reading room exploring utopia, gift economy and alternative pedagogy.