Carrie Mae Weems

Land of Broken Dreams: A Case Study, 2021
Installation View: Carrie Mae Weems: Varying Shades of Brown,
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 2023
Installation of various components: furniture, objects, images, sculptures,
View-Masters, a series of books, flying papers, and more
Photo: Julia Featheringill

About

Carrie Mae Weems
Photo: © Rolex, Audoin Desforges

Carrie Mae Weems (b. 1953, Portland, Oregon) lives and works in Syracuse, New York. Recent exhibitions include The Heart of the Matter at Gallerie d'Italia, Painting the Town at the Rijksmuseum, Remember to Dream at CCS Bard Hessel, Carrie Mae Weems: The Shape of Things at LUMA Arles, Reflections for Now at Barbican Art Gallery in London, The Evidence of Things Not Seen, organized by Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart and thereafter traveled to Kunstmuseum Basel, as well as Carrie Mae Weems: Remember to Dream at Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College. In the spring of 2023, Weems served as the inaugural Agnes Gund Professor of the Practice of Arts and Social Justice at Brown University, a residency that culminated in the campus-wide activation collectively titled Varying Shades of Brown.

Weems has received numerous awards, grants, and fellowships, including a National Medal of Arts, Hasselblad Award, the Bernd and Hilla Becher Prize, the MacArthur “Genius” grant, the US State Department’s Medal of Arts, the Joseph Hazen Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome, NEA grants, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award, among others. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and The Tate Modern, London, among others.

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Photographer Carrie Mae Weems confronts the ‘changing same’ in new work

The San Francisco Chronicle

Tony Bravo

January 31, 2025

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Carrie Mae Weems

Artforum

Jan Avgikos

January 1, 2025

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Carrie Mae Weems

PIN-UP

Adam Pendleton

November 15, 2024

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Artists and Poets Gather in Chelsea for ‘Cathartic’ Night of Community

Hyperallergic

Maya Pontone

November 6, 2024

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Don’t Let Trump Make America Into an Image of Himself

New York Times

Jamelle Bouie

November 5, 2024

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Carrie Mae Weems Offers a Respite at Gladstone Gallery Before an Anxiety-Inducing Election

ARTnews

Daniel Cassady

November 4, 2024

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Carrie Mae Weems Kitchen Table Photos Star in Kamala Harris Ad

Hyperallergic

Rhea Nayyar

November 1, 2024

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Carrie Mae Weems Has Faith in the Future

Harper's Bazaar

Stephen Mooallem

November 1, 2024

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