Carrie Mae Weems, Biography

Thought about quite possibly the most compelling contemporary American specialists, Carrie Mae Weems has examined family connections, social personality, sexism, class, political frameworks, and the outcomes of force. Decided as ever to enter the picture both in a real sense and allegorically Weems has supported an on-going exchange inside contemporary talk for more than thirty years. During this time, Carrie Mae Weems has built up a perplexing assemblage of workmanship utilizing photos, text, texture, sound, computerized pictures, establishment, and video. In a New York Times audit of her review, Holland Cotter composed M's. Weems is the thing that she has consistently been, a brilliant picture producer and an ethical power, engaged and enthusiastic. Weems has partaken in various performance and gathering displays at significant public and worldwide galleries including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Frist Center for Visual Art, Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contempor?neo in Seville, Spain. Weems has gotten various honors, awards, and associations, including the esteemed Prix de Roma, The National Endowment of the Arts, The Alpert, The Anonymous was a Woman, and The Tiffany Awards. In 2012, Weems was given one of the primary US Department of State's Medals of Arts in acknowledgment of her obligation to the State Department's Art in Embassies program. In 2013 Weems got the MacArthur “Genius” award just as the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award. She has likewise gotten the BET Honors Visual Artist grant, the Lucie Award for Fine Art photography, was one of four craftsmen respected at the Guggenheim's 2014 International Gala, a beneficiary of the ICP Spotlights Award from the International Center of Photography, The WEB Dubois Award from Harvard University, just as Honorary Degrees from California College of the Arts, Colgate University, Bowdoin College, the School of Visual Arts and Syracuse University. She is spoken to out in the open and private assortments around the globe, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Museum of Modern Art, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and The Tate Modern, London. Weems has been spoken to by Jack Shainman Gallery since 2008 and is at present Artist in Residence at the Park Avenue Armory. She lives in Syracuse, New York, with her better half Jeffrey Hoone who is Executive Director of Light Work.

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