Carrie Mae Weems

Constellations: Racial myths, land, and labour

September 21 - December 15, 2024

About Carrie Mae Weems

Carrie Mae Weems is a widely influential American artist whose work explores the dynamics of individual experience and the power of larger institutions by investigating family relationships, cultural identity, sexism, class, and politics. Throughout her artistic career, she has created acclaimed works using photographs, text, fabric, audio, digital images, installation, and video. Weems has exhibited at numerous solo and group exhibitions at recognized institutions, including at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington (2023); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2017); and the Guggenheim Museum, New York (2014); and internationally at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden (2021); and the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville (2010). Her work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and Tate Modern, London; among other institutions. Weems is the recipient of several prestigious awards, grants, and fellowships including the International Center of Photography Spotlights Award (2015); MacArthur “Genius” Grant (2013), and the Prix de Roma (2006). In 2012, she was presented with one of the first U.S. Department of State’s Medal of Arts for her commitment to the State Department’s Arts in Embassies program. Weems earned her BFA from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia (1981), her MFA in Photography at the University of California, San Diego (1984), and in 1987, took a graduate program in Folklore at the University of California, Berkeley. She currently lives in Syracuse, New York.

Resources

Artist Website:

http://carriemaeweems.net

Video Resources:

MoMA: From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried | Carrie Mae Weems

Art21 - Carrie Mae Weems

The Future of Art According to Carrie Mae Weems

Carrie Mae Weems

Introduction to Carrie Mae Weems with Ronan Mckenzie