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Carrie Mae Weems

(American, born 1953)

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Carrie Mae Weems

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Biography

Timeline

1953
Born in Portland, Oregon
1981
BA, California Institute of the Arts Valencia, CA
1984 - 1987
Graduate Program in Folklore, Univ. of California Berkeley, CA
1984
MFA, University of California San Diego, CA
1992
Louis Comfort Tiffany Award
2001
Honorary Degree, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
Artist in Residence, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
Artist in Residence, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
2002
Pollack Krasner Foundation Grant in Photography (Pilot Program)
Commission for New Work, Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

Exhibitions

2016 - 2017
Carrie Mae Weems Selected Exhibitions in 2016-2017:
Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
2015 - 2016
Carrie Mae Weems Selected Exhibitions in 2015-2016:
Us Is Them, The Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio
Winter in America, The School, Kinderhook, New York
Celebrating Photography at the National Gallery of Art: Recent Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
2015
Carrie Mae Weems Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Represent: 200 Years of African American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Under Color of Law, The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania
An Exhibition of African American Photographers from the Daguerreian to the Digital Eras, Marshall Fine Arts Center, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania
Triennale di Milano: Art & Foods Rituals Since 1851, Milano, Italy
The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Acquired with the Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
A Voice Remains, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
Portraits and Other Likenesses from SFMOMA, Museum of the African Diaspora
Nero su Bianco, American Academy in Rome
ReSignifications, Museo Stefano Bardini, Villa la Pietra, Fondazione Biagiotti Progetto Arte, Florence, Italy
I am your sister, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels, Belgium
2014
Carrie Mae Weems Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Subject and Witness, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Carrie Mae Weems: The Museum Series, Studio Museum Harlem, New York, NY
Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video, The Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (solo)
2013
Carrie Mae Weems Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
Slow Fade to Black, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago (solo)
Carrie Mae Weems: 3 Decades of Photography and Video, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Traveling to: Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Sanford University,; Guggenheim Museum, New York, Curated by Katie Delmez. (Catalogue; texts by David Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Franklin Sirmans, Deborah Willis, and Katie Delmez) (solo)
POP Goes the Easel: Pop Art and its Progeny, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, Connecticut
2012 - 2013
Carrie Mae Weems Selected Exhibitions in 2012-2013:
This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois, Traveling to: Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Massachusetts, 2012 and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis , 2013. (Catalogue)
Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, Brown Foundation Gallery, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Blues for Smoke, organized by Bennett Simpson and presented at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Traveling to: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, (Catalogue)
2012
Carrie Mae Weems Selected Exhibitions in 2012:
At the Edge: Recent Acquisitions, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Intimate Interiors, Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
Octagon Gallery video installationMcNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
Cinema Remixed & Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970, 11thHavana Biennial, Cuba; Curated by Andrea Barnwell Brownlee and Valerie Cassel Oliver.
The Bearden Project, Studio Museum in Harlem
Every Exit is an Entrance: 30 Years of Exit Art, Exit Art, New York
Performing for the Camera, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Curated by Heather Seal Lineberry.
The Annual: 2012, National Academy Museum, New York
African Americans and the American Scene, 1929–1945, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, Co-curated by Dalila Scruggs and Sandra Burton.
Maddening Crowd, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas (solo)
La Triennale: Intense Proximitè, Palais de Tokyo. Curated by Okwui Enwezor, Claire Staebler, Emilie Renard, Melanie Bouteloup and Abdellah Karroum.
28 Days, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
2011 - 2012
Carrie Mae Weems Selected Exhibitions in 2011-2012:
Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Traveled to: Museo del Novencentro, Milan; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland. (Catalogue)
The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, Neuberger Museum, Purchase College, New York; Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
The Bearden Project, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
2011
Carrie Mae Weems Selected Exhibitions in 2011:
Carrie Mae Weems: Slow Fade to Black, Williams College Museum of Art and Downstreet Art at the Legacy, Legacy Gallery, North Adams, MA (solo)
Carrie Mae Weems: Kitchen Table Series, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois (solo)
Constructing History: A Requiem to Mark the Moment, Frederick Douglass Institute for African & African American Studies, University of Rochester, New York.
Icon, The Paul R. Jones Gallery, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.
Unsettled: Photography and Politics in Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, Curated by Peter Barberie.
Converging Voices, Transforming Dialogue: Selections from the Elliot and Kimberly Perry Collection, University Museum, Texas Southern University, Houston
Bodyscapes, Mechanical Hall Gallery, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
Stargazers: Elizabeth Catlett in Conversation with 21 Contemporary Artists, Bronx Museum, New York Seeing Now: Photography Since 1960, Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland
You Are Here, Community Folk Art Center, Syracuse, New York.
Safety in Numbers?: Images of African American Identity and Community, Portland Art Museum, Oregon
2010
Carrie Mae Weems Selected Exhibitions in 2010:
Carrie Mae Weems: Estudios Sociales / Carrie Mae Weems: Social Studies, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain

Public Collections

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Whitney Museum, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Literature

2012
Weaver A. M. “Carry Mae Weems”, Artvoices Magazine, April/May, 2012, pp.51-57
2008
Martin, Courtney J. “Critic’s Picks: Carrie Mae Weems” www.artforum.com, Friday August 1st
Cotter, Holland “Art in Review” The New York Times, July 25
Perree, Rob “Reviews” Kunstbleed.nl Magazine No. 4 2008 page 86
2007 - 2008
Maddox, David.The Louisiana Project, From Here I Saw What Happened. Number, fall/winter 2007/2008 No. 60
2007
Kaplan, Cheryl. The Screen Test: The Films of Carrie Mae Weems. Harvard University, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute, October
English (US)

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