Carrie Mae Weems
born Portland, Oregon, 1953
Weems has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions at major national and international museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Frist Center for Visual Art, Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Seville, Spain. She has received numerous awards, grants, and fellowships, including the prestigious Prix de Roma, The National Endowment of the Arts, The Alpert, The Anonymous was a Woman, and The Tiffany Awards. In 2013 Weems received a MacArthur “Genius” grant as well as the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the WEB Dubois Award from Harvard University, as well as Honorary Degrees from: California College of the Arts, Colgate University, Bowdoin College, the School of Visual Arts and Syracuse University. She is represented in public and private collections around the world.
For additional information and images visit the artist's website: carriemaeweems.net
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Salish member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation; born St. Ignatius Indian Mission, Flathead Reservation, MT 1940
born San Francisco, California, 1902; died Fort Bragg, California, 2000
born Lansing, Michigan, 1941; died Portland, Oregon, 2019