CURRICULUM VITAE
AWARDS AND HONORS
Harlem Stage Transformative Artist Award, 2022
SFMoMA Board of Trustees Member, Newly Appointed, 2022
Bernd and Hilla Becher Prize, 2022
72nd Annual Parson Table Award, 2021
MoMA Forum on Contemporary Photography, 2021
Artes Mundi 9 Biennial Prize, 2020
International Photography Hall of Fame Inductee, 2020
Royal Photographic Society honorary fellow, 2019
DIA Alaine Locke Award, 2019
The Brotherhood/Sisterhood Sol’s, 2017
Frida Kahlo Award for Innovative Creativity, 2017
UC San Diego Outstanding Alumni Award, 2017
Anderson Ranch Arts Center National Artist Award honoree, 2016
DeFINE ART honoree, 2016
College Arts Association Distinguished Feminist Award, 2016
Roy and Edna Disney Cal Arts Theater Award, 2016
American Academy in Rome Gala honoree, 2015
WEB DuBois Medal recipient, 2015
ICP Spotlight Award, 2015
Guggenheim International Gala honoree, 2014
Russell Simmons Rush Foundation honoree, 2014
Lucie Foundation Award, 2014
BET Award, 2014
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, 2013
National Academician, 2013
Gordon Parks Foundation Award, 2013
U. S. State Department’s Medal of Arts Award, 2012
Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation, New York, 2007
Skowhegan Medal for Photography, Skowhegan, ME, 2007
The Alpert Award for Visual Arts, 1996
The May Ingraham Bunting Award, Cambridge, MA, 1995
Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, 1992
FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES, AND GRANTS
Syracuse University Artist in Residence, 2020-2023
Park Avenue Armory Residency, 2020-2021
Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative program, Mentor, 2020-2022
Brotherhood/Sister Sol Artist in Residence, 2020-2021
The Watermill Center’s Residency Program, 2017
Park Avenue Armory Residency, 2017
Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow, 2016
Robert Rauschenberg Residency, 2015
MacArthur Foundation Fellow, 2013
Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize Fellow, 2005-2006
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in Photography, 2002
National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Grant, 1994-95
Light Work Residency, 1989
Smithsonian Fellowship, 1987
HONORARY DOCTORATES
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
School of Visual Arts, New York City, NY
Smith College, Northampton, MA
Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
California College of Art, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Carrie Mae Weems (October Files), 2021
Carrie Mae Weems: Kitchen Table Series, 2016
Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video, 2012
Carrie Mae Weems: Social Studies, 2010
Carrie Mae Weems: Constructing History, 2009
Carrie Mae Weems: The Hampton Project, 2000
Carrie Mae Weems published by the National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1993
Carrie Mae Weems: Recent Work, 1992-1998
RECENT SELECTED ONE AND TWO-ARTIST EXHIBITIONS
Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI, January 29 – April 30, 2022.
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, July 21 – October 23, 2022.
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, November 15, 2022 – January 22, 2023.
The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA, April 4 – July 9, 2023.
A Great Turn In The Possible, kBR Mapfre, Foto Colectania, and MABCA, Barcelona, Spain, October 6, 2022 - January 15, 2023.
People in Conditions, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany, September 10 – October 29th, 2022.
Carrie Mae Weems: The Usual Suspects: LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, April 12 – October 14, 2018.
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, January 18 – May 3, 2020.
Fairfield University Art Museum, Walsh Gallery, Fairfield, Connecticut, September 16 – December 18, 2021.
Bardo Center for Fine Arts, North Carolina, February 1 – April 29, 2022.
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia, May 21 – August 6, 2022.
TCNJ Art Gallery and The Sarnoff Collection, The College of New Jersey, August 31 – October 28, 2022.
The Evidence of Things Not Seen, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, April 2 – July 10, 2022.
Down Here Below, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY, January 13 – February 19, 2022.
The Shape of Things, Park Avenue Armory, New York, December 2 – December 31, 2021.
Carrie Mae Weems: A Land of Broken Dreams, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL, July 17 - December 12, 2021.
African American Voices: Carrie Mae Weems, Digital Exhibition, Saint Anselm College, Manchester, NH, February 1 – 29, 2020.
Carrie Mae Weems: II Over Time, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, January 23 – February 29, 2020.
Push, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany, October 26, 2019 – February 1, 2020.
Beyond Space, The Contemporary @ The Park Shelton, The Carr Center, Detroit, MI, October 19, 2019 – January 5, 2020.
RECENT SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, April 9 – September 11, 2022.
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, October 30, 2022 – January 29, 2023.
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, March 3 - June 25, 2023.
California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA, August 5 – March 3, 2024.
U.C. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, Spring 2024.
Free as they want to be, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH, September 30, 2022 – March 6, 2023.
Citing Black Geographies, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, September 9 – October 27, 2022.
Richard Gray Gallery, New York, November 17 – December 23, 2022.
Stressed World, The School & Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, New York, June 5 – December 3, 2022.
Competere, Bo Bartlett Center, College for the Arts, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA, April 8 – June 17, 2022.
A Site of Struggle: American Art Against Anti-Black Violence, The Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, January 16 – April 17, 2022.
Media Relay: An Exhibition in Two Parts, National Academy of Design, New York, NY, January 13 – February 27, 2022.
What is Left Unspoken, Love, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, March 25 – August 14, 2022.
Picturing Black Girlhood: Moments of Possibility, Express Newark, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, February 12 - July 2, 2022.
Open Ended: Painting and Sculpture, 1900 to Now, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, Ongoing.
Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, New Museum, New York, NY, January 26 – June 13, 2021.
Some Day is Now: Women, Art & Social Change, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut, October 1, 2020 – January 24, 2021
History of Photography, Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY, July 16, 2020 – March 2021.
It Comes in Many Forms: Islamic Art from the Collection, RISD Museum, Providence, RI, October 2, 2020 – March 7, 2021.
Artes Mundi 9, National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff, United Kingdom, February 13 - June 6, 2021.
Maskulinitäten, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany, September 1 – November 24, 2020.
Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL, February 29 – September 27, 2020.
Push the limits, Fondazione Merz, Torino, Italy, Sept. 7 2020- Jan 31, 2021.
Riffs and Relations, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, February 29 – May 24, 2020.
Modern Women, Modern Vision: Works from the Bank of America Collection, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, February 20 – May 24, 2020.
Tell Me Your Story, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, The Netherlands, February 8 – May 17, 2020.
Fact and Fiction in Contemporary Photography, Joslyn Museum, Omaha, NE, February 8 – May 10, 2020.
African Cosmologies, FotoFest Biennial 2020, Houston, TX, March 8 – April 19, 2020.
Celebrating Suffrage: Women Artists from the Collection, Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY, February 29 – April 19, 2020.
School Photos and Their Afterlives, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, January 8 – April 12, 2020.
Unseen: 35 Years of Collecting Photographs, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, December 19, 2019 – March 8, 2020.
Cosmic Rhythm Vibrations, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC, September 28, 2019 – March 1, 2020