Carrie Mae Weems

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Born: 1953

Hometown: Portland, OR

Lives and Works: Syracuse, NY

Website: carriemaeweems.net

Education: Graduate Program in Folklore, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1987
MFA, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, 1984
BFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, 1981

Carrie Mae Weems Bio

About The Artist

With the pitch and timbre of an accomplished storyteller, Carrie Mae Weems examines issues of race, gender politics, and African-American identity in her photography. First picking up the camera for political rather than artistic purposes, Weems studied at the Studio Museum in Harlem in the 1970s with contemporaries Frank Stewart and Coreen Simpson. Weems uses her personal biography in combination with racist and misogynistic jokes, songs, and rebukes to stake claim to the narrative of an ordinary black woman in America. The recipient of a number of awards, Weems has been a visiting professor at both Harvard University and Wellesley College.

Carrie Mae Weems Gallery Art

Galleries

Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY

Carrie Mae Weems Permanent Collections

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The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI