Carrie Mae Weems
Artist
Biography
Carrie Mae Weems (born 20 April 1953 in Portland, Oregon) is an American artist working with photography, text, fabric, audio, digital images, film and installation. She rose to prominence in the early 1990s with The Kitchen Table Series, and over more than four decades has created a multifaceted body of work addressing race, gender, class, power and identity, with a particular focus on the experiences of Black women in America, often using her own figure as witness. Weems has exhibited at institutions including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Kunstmuseum Basel, Fondazione Prada and the LUMA Foundation. Her honours include a MacArthur Fellowship and the National Medal of Arts (2024), and her work is held by the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art and Tate Modern, among others. She lives and works in Syracuse, New York.