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
Related Exhibitions

The Shape of Things to Come
Curated by Dexter Wimberly 11 October 2025 - 10 January 2026 Efie Gallery, Dubai United Arab Emirates

Time Heals, Just Not Quick Enough…
Curated by Ose Ekore 1st June 2025 – 30th July 2025 Efie Gallery, Dubai United Arab Emirates

I Am Soil. My Tears Are Water. | María Magdalena Campos-Pons
Curated by Faridah Folawiyo 14th April 2025 – 25th May 2025 Efie Gallery, Dubai United Arab Emirates


