Carrie Mae Weems

Quick Facts

Full Name	Carrie Mae Weems
Occupation	Photographer
Date Of Birth	Apr 20, 1953(1953-04-20)
Age	71
Birthplace	Portland
Country	United States
Birth City	Oregon
Horoscope	Aries

Carrie Mae Weems Biography

Carrie Mae Weems is one of the most popular and richest Photographer who was born on April 20, 1953 in Portland, Oregon, United States. Weems was the second child of seven to Carrie Polk, Myrlie Weems, and was born in Portland in 1953. In 1965, she began performing in street theater and dance. Faith C. Weems was her first child and her only child at the age of 16. She moved out of her parents’ house in the following year and quickly relocated to San Francisco, where she studied modern dance with Anna Halprin. Halprin started the workshop with many other dancers and artists John Cage as well as Robert Morris. At the age of 28, she decided to continue arts education and attended the California Institute of the Arts Valencia. She graduated with her B.A. She earned her MFA at the University of California in San Diego. Weems was also a graduate student in folklore at the University of California.

Weems also created the Africa Series (1993-1992), the Sea Island Series (1991-92), From Here, I Saw What Happened, and I Cried (1995-96), Who What When Where (1998), Ritual & Revolution (191998), Ritual & Revolution (1998), The Louisiana Project (2003), Roaming (2006) and the Museum Series which she started in 2007. Grace Notes: Reflections for Now is her most recent multimedia performance. It explores the role of grace in the pursuit for democracy.

Weems’ work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Portland Art Museum, the Tate Museum in London and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Weems has been represented by Jack Shainman Gallery since 2008.

A full-color, visual book, titled Carrie Mae Weems, was published by Yale University Press in October 2012. The book offers the first major survey of Weems’ career and includes a collection of essays from leading and emerging scholars in addition to over 200 of Weems’ most important works.

Carrie Mae Weems’ first collection of photos, text and spoken words, Family Pictures and Stories, was completed in 1983. These images were about her family and told her story. She said she was trying out to understand the migration of black families from the South into the North through the use of her family as a model. In 1988, she completed her next series called Ain’t Jokin’. It was a series that focused on internalized racism and racial jokes. American Icons was another series that focused on racism. It was completed in 1989. Weems stated that she had been moving away from documentary photography in the 1980s. Instead, she created “representations that looked like documents, but were actually staged”, and “incorporated text, using multiples photos and creating narratives.” Her next focus was on sexuality. This was the subject of The Kitchen Table series, which she completed in just over two years (1989-1990). Weems was the main character in the photographs. Weems said about Family Pictures and Stories and Kitchen Table: “I use the constructed image I created as a vehicle to question ideas about the role and nature of tradition, the nature and relationships of men and women, women and their children, and among women. This helps me understand the important issues and possible solutions.” She expressed concern at the lack of images of black people, especially black women, in popular media. Through her art, she hopes to show these subjects and share their experiences. These photos created space for black female artists to create new art. Weems also spoke out about the inspirations and themes in her entire work.

Carrie Mae Weems Net Worth

Carrie Mae Weems is one of the richest Photographer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Carrie Mae Weems 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Carrie Mae Weems, born April 20, 1953, is an American artist. She works with text and fabric, audio and digital images, as well as installation video. Her most prominent work is in the field photography. Her award-winning films, photographs, and videos have been shown in more than 50 exhibitions across the United States and internationally. They focus on serious issues facing African Americans today such as racism and sexism.

Carrie Mae Weems, in her early twenties was politically active in the labor movements as a union organizer. Her birthday gift of a camera was her first. It was used to do this work, before it was used for artistic purposes. After seeing The Black Photography Annual (a collection of photographs by African- American photographers such as Shawn Walker and Anthony Barboza, Ming Smith, Adger cowans, and Roy DeCarava), Weems was inspired to take up photography. She was then able to travel to New York City and to the Studio Museum in Harlem. There she met other artists and photographers like Coreen Simpson, Frank Stewart, and formed a community. Weems attended a class in photography at the Museum with Dawoud Begy in 1976. Janet Henry invited her to teach at the Studio Museum in New York and to be a part of a group of New York photographers.

In her almost 30-year career, Carrie Mae Weems has won numerous awards. She was named Photographer of the Year by the Friends of Photography. In 2005, she was awarded the Distinguished Photographer’s Award in recognition of her significant contributions to the world of photography. Her talents have also been recognized by numerous colleges, including Harvard University and Wellesley College, with fellowships, artist-in-residence and visiting professor positions. She taught photography at Hampshire College in the late 1980s. She was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2013. In 2015 Weems was named a Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow. In September 2015, the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research presented her with the W. E. B. Du Bois Medal.

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Who is Carrie Mae Weems Dating?

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Facts & Trivia

Carrie Ranked on the list of most popular Photographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Carrie Mae Weems celebrates birthday on April 20 of every year.

Why is Carrie Mae Weems important?

Carrie Mae Weems, (born April 20, 1953, Portland, Oregon, U.S.), American artist and photographer known for creating installations that combine photography, audio, and text to examine many facets of contemporary American life.

What does Carrie Mae Weems do now?

Weems is one of six artist-curators who made selections for Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 2019/20. Weems is Artist in residence at Syracuse University. She lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn and Syracuse, New York with her husband Jeffrey Hoone.

What was one specific intention of Carrie Mae Weems a Negroid type?

emphasizing the acts of framing and looking. Finally, she overlaid the images with her own texts that expose a long history of systemic injustice. “I wanted to intervene in that by giving a voice to a subject that historically has had no voice.”

When did Carrie Mae Weems move out?

Weems. Later that year ( 1970 ), she moved out of her parents’ home and soon relocated to San Francisco to study modern dance with Anna Halprin at a workshop Halprin had started with several other dancers, as well as the artists John Cage and Robert Morris.

What does Carrie Mae Weems do in the series From Here I Saw What Happened

and I Cried?

With From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, Carrie Mae Weems reveals how photography has played a key role throughout history in shaping and supporting racism, stereotyping, and social injustice.