Artist

Carrie Mae Weems

Carrie Mae Weems (b. 1953, USA) is an American artist whose expansive career spans photography, installation, video, text, fabric, and performance. Her practice explores themes of identity, history, and power through both personal and collective narratives, using storytelling to challenge dominant cultural frameworks.

She has exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville; and has participated in the Whitney Biennial, the Sharjah Biennial, and the Berlin Biennial. Recent presentations include Reflections for Now at the Barbican Centre, London (2023), The Evidence of Things Not Seen at Kunstmuseum Basel (2024), and A Great Turn in the Possible in Barcelona (2022).

Her works are included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Tate Modern, London; Pérez Art Museum Miami; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. She has received numerous honors, including the Rome Prize, Anonymous Was a Woman Award, MacArthur “Genius” Grant, National Medal of Arts, Hasselblad Award (2023), and the Bernd and Hilla Becher Prize (2022).

Selected Works

A Place for Him, A Place for Her, 1993. Africa Series. 50.8 cm x 50.8 cm

A Place for Him, A Place for Her, 1993. Africa Series. 50.8 cm x 50.8 cm

Stairways to Heaven, 1993. Africa Series. 50 cm x 60 cm

Stairways to Heaven, 1993. Africa Series. 50 cm x 60 cm

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