Carrie Mae Weems (* 1953) ist eine US-amerikanische Medienkünstlerin, die mit Text, Stoffen, digitalen Bildern und Video-Installationen arbeitet. Sie ist bekannt für ihre Werke in der Fotografie und erhielt zahlreiche Auszeichnungen.
Weems erste Sammlung von Fotografien, Texten und Spoken Word erschien 1983 unter dem Titel Family Pictures and Stories.[3] Dieses und viele ihrer darauffolgende Werke thematisieren Rassismus und schwarze Identität in Amerika. In einer ihrer bekanntesten Sammlungen, The Kitchen Table, geht es um Sexismus.[4]
Die erste umfassende Retrospektive ihres Werks wurde im September 2012 im First Art Museum in Nashville, Tennessee unter dem Titel Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video (kuratiert von Katie Delmez) gezeigt.[5] Danach wanderte die Ausstellung in das Portland Art Museum, in das Cleveland Museum of Art, in das Cantor Center for Visual Arts sowie in das Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Es war die erste Einzelausstellung einer afroamerikanischen Frau im Guggenheim.[6]
Das Buch Carrie Mae Weems, herausgegeben von der Yale University Press im Oktober 2012, bietet einen Überblick des Werks der Künstlerin. Es enthät 200 ihrer Arbeiten sowie eine Sammlung von theoretischen Aufsätzen.[7]
Für die Saison 2020/2021 in der Wiener Staatsoper gestaltete Weems als 23. Kunstwerk für die von museum in progress konzipierte Ausstellungsreihe „Eiserner Vorhang“ das riesige Großbild (176 m²) „Queen B (Mary J. Blige)“.[8]
Schwarze Kunst: Konzepte zur Politik und Identität, Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin, 1992
Dirt and Domesticity: Constructions of the Feminine, Whitney Museum of American Art at equitable Center, New York, 1992
Art, Politics, and Community, William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Mansfield, 1992
Mis/Taken identities, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA (gereist nach: Museum Folkwang, Essen; Forum Stadtpark, Graz; Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen im Forum Langenstraße; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek; Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham), 1992–1994
And 22 Million Very Tired and very Angry People, Walter/McBean gallery, San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco, 1993
Enlightenment, Revolution, A Gallery Project, Ferndale, 1993
Fictions of the Self: The Portrait in Contemporary Photography, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro; Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1993–1994
The Theatre of Refusal: Black Art and the Mainstream Criticism, Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine, (gereist nach: University of California, Davis, CA; and University of California, Riverside), 1993–1994
Women's Representation of Women, Sapporo American Center Gallery, Sapporo (gereist nach: Aka Renga Cultural Center, Fukuoka City; Kyoto International Community House, Kyoto; Aichi Prefectural Arts Center, Nagoya; Osaka Prefectural Contemporary Arts Center; Spiral Arts Center, Tokyo), 1994
Black Male, Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, und The Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Santa Monica, 1994–1995
Carrie Mae Weems Reacts to Hidden Witness, J. Paul Getty Museum of Art, Malibu, 1995
Projects 52, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1995
StoryLand: Narrative Vision and Social Space, Walter Phillips gallery, The Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, 1995
Inside the Visible, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, 1996
Gender - Beyond Memory, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, 1996
2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Africus Institute for Contemporary Art, Johannesburg, 1997
Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African-American Artists, 1998
Taboo: Repression and Revolt in Modern Art, Gallery St. Etienne, New York, 1998
Tell me a Story: Narration in Contemporary Painting and Photography, Center National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, 1998
Recent Work: Carrie Mae Weems 1992–98, Everson Art Museum, Syracuse, 1998–1999
Who, What, When, and Where,Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York, 1998–1999
Ritual & Revolution, DAK'ART 98: Biennale of Contemporary Art, Galerie National d’Art, Dakar, 1998–1999
It's Only Rock and Roll, 1999
Claustrophobia: Disturbing the Domestic in Contemporary Art, 1999
Histories (Re)membered, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, 1999
Carrie Mae Weems: The Hampton Project, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, 2000–2003
Material and Matter: Loans to and Selections from the Studio Museum Collection, The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2000
The View From Here: Issues of Cultural Identity and Perspective in Contemporary Russian and American Art, Tretyakov Gallery, Moskau, 2000
Strength and Diversity: A Celebration of African-American Artists, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, 2000
Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present, Smithsonian Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and culture, Washington, 2000
History Now, touring exhibition beginning at the Liljevalchs Konsthall and Riksutstallningar, Stockholm, 2002
Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More... On Collecting, traveling exhibition curated by Independent curators International, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, 2002
The Louisiana Project, Newcomb Art Museum|Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, 2003
Cuba on the Verge, International Center of Photography, New York, 2003
Crimes and Misdemeanors: Politics in U.S. Art of the 1980s, Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, 2003
The 21st century, The Feminine Century, and the century of Diversity and Hope, 2009 International Incheon Women Artists' Biennale, Incheon, 2009–2010
Colour Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, Tate Liverpool, 2009–2010
Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic, Tate Liverpool, 2009–2010
From Then to Now: Masterworks of Contemporary African American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, 2009–2010
Carrie Mae Weems: Estudios Sociales, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, 2010
Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2010
Slow Fade to Black, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, 2010
The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, Nasher Museum, Durham, 2010
Myth, Manners and Memory: Photographers of the American South, De La Waar Pavillion, East Sussex, 2010
Off the Wall: Part 1 – Thirty Performative Actions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, 2010
The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973–1991, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Purchase, New York, 2010
Posing Beauty: African American Images From the 1890s to the Present, Newark Museum, Newark, 2010
Stargazers: Elizabeth Catlett in Conversation with 21 Contemporary Artists, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, 2010
Unsettled: Photography and Politics in Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 2010
An Exhibition of African American Photographers from the Daguerreian to the Digital Eras, Marshall Fine Arts Center at Haveford College, Haveford, PA, 2015
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↑Carrie Mae Weems: Carrie Mae Weems. Museum of Modern Art, New York 1995, OCLC501437361 (englisch).
↑Carrie Mae Weems, Ohio) Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati: Carrie Mae Weems: image maker. Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH 1995, OCLC46328668 (englisch).
↑Carrie Mae Weems, Thomas Piché, Thelma Golden: Carrie Mae Weems: recent work, 1992-1998. George Braziller ; in association with Everson Museum of Art, New York; Syracuse, N.Y. 1998, ISBN 978-0-8076-1444-0 (englisch).
↑Carrie Mae Weems, Erik Neil, Susan Cahan, Pamela R Metzger: Carrie Mae Weems: the Louisiana Project. Newcomb Art Gallery, New Orleans 2004, ISBN 978-0-9668595-5-3 (englisch).
↑Carrie Mae Weems, Stephanie S Hughley: Carrie Mae Weems: constructing history a requiem to mark the moment. Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah 2008, ISBN 978-0-9797440-8-2 (englisch).
↑Carrie Mae Weems, Spain) Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (Seville: Carrie Mae Weems: social studies. Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla 2010, ISBN 978-84-9959-026-4 (englisch).
↑Carrie Mae Weems, Kathryn E Delmez, Tenn.) Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville: Carrie Mae Weems three decades of photography and video: Traveling exhibition, United states, Sept. 2012-May 2014. Frist Center for the Visual Arts ; in association with Yale University Press, Nashville, TN; New Haven 2012, ISBN 978-0-300-17689-6 (englisch).
↑Carrie Mae Weems, Adrienne Edwards: Carrie Mae Weems - Kitchen table series. Damiani, Bologna 2016, ISBN 978-88-6208-462-8 (englisch).
↑Raúl Muñoz de la Vega, Florence Ostende, Maja Wismer (Hrsg.): Carrie Mae Weems. Reflections for Now. Hatje Cantz, 2023, ISBN 978-3-7757-5555-9 (englisch).
