Flash!
- [ 2 ] May 2011, Carrie receives honorary doctorate from Smith College.
- [ 3 ] October 2011, Carrie and the Social Studies 101 collective continue anti-violence public art campaign with "A Safe Zone" posters to display in home, school, and business windows.
- Download the Safe Zone poster.
- View the images.
- Read about it.
- Like it on Facebook.
- Contact the collective and get involved.
- [ 4 ] Carrie's work greets visitors to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations (USUN) in New York City
- Read about it.
- [ 5 ] Download Carrie's "Experimental Activities for Boys and Girls," a project of the J. Paul Getty Museum.
- Read about the project.
- Visit the Getty's Open Studio website for more activities.
Carrie's Video Galleries
- Watch excerpts from selected video projects. The video files are large; please allow video to download completely before pressing play.
Current Exhibits
- The Annual
- National Academy Museum and School
- New York, New York
- 25 January to 29 April 2012
- 28 Days: Reimagining Black History Month
- Justina M. Barnicke Gallery
- University of Toronto
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- 19 January to 19 February 2012
- African American Art from the Flomenhaft Collection
- Flomenhaft Gallery
- New York, New York
- 5 January 2012 to 3 March 2012
- Narrative Interventions in Photography
- The J. Paul Getty Museum
- Los Angeles, California
- 25 October 2011 to 11 March 2012
- 30 Americans
- Corcoran Gallery of Art
- Washington, DC
- 1 October 2011 to 12 February 2012
Upcoming Exhibits
- Carrie Mae Weems Retrospective
- Frist Center for the Visual Arts
- Nashville, Tennessee
- September 2012 to January 2013
- Traveling to:
- Portland (Oregon) Museum of Art, February to May 2013
- Cleveland Museum of Art, 30 June to 15 September 2013
- Guggenheim Museum, 18 October 2013 to 19 January 2014
Panels, Conversations, Lectures
- Storytelling and Photography
- Discussion with Carrie, Anna Deveare Smith, and Eileen Cowin
- J. Paul Getty Museum
- Los Angeles, California
- 26 January 2012, 7:30 PM
- Reservations required
Television and Video
- Check out Carrie's YouTube channel where you can view:
- Carrie in conversation with David Alan Grier
- Carrie talking with Wynton Marsalis & Cornel West
- Carrie giving a lecture at the Brooklyn Museum, and more.
- Art: 21 Compassion
- View Preview or Full Episode
- PBS
- 7 October 2009
Interviews and Features
- Duke University's Left of Black show featuring Carrie. Watch it on YouTube.
- Carrie Mae Weems by Dawoud Bey
- BOMB Magazine
- BOMB 108, Summer 2009
Articles / Reviews
- "Bedfellows|Blackout" by Victoria Gannon
- Art21 Blog
- 3 January 2012
- "30 Americans" at the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Download PDF) by Larry Saxton
- The Washington Informer
- 29 September 2011
- Women's Art of Renewal: Carrie Mae Weems, Vanessa Beecroft, Sharon Lockhart, Catherine Opie and Lisa Yuskavage by G. Roger Denson
- The Huffington Post
- 25 August 2011
- Full Exposure: The Philadelphia Museum of Art's "Unsettled: Photography and Politics in Contemporary Art by John Vettese
- Philadelphia City Paper
- 21 July 2011
- Scenes from culture wars in Art Museum photo show
- Philadelphia Inquirer online
- 21 April 2011
- Exhibition explores approaches to art and civic dialogue
- Inside SU
- 4 April 2011
- Safety in Numbers?: Images of African American Identity and Community, at Portland Art Museum: Review
- OregonLive
- 30 March 2011
- Carrie's Untitled (Black Love) is one of the "Things We Love" at the Studio Museum of Harlem
- Why Am I Looking at “Pictures by Women”? by Ian Epstein
- Hyperallergic.com
- 12 August 2010
- Recent Museum of Art Acquisition: Historically Resonant Portrait by Photographer Carrie Mae Weems
- Bulletin of the University of Michigan online
- From the print edition archive
- Volume 16, 2005
Other Mentions
Recent Exhibits
- Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection
- Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
- Durham, North Carolina
- 11 August 2011 to 8 January 2012
- Camera Works: Masters in Photography
- Gibbes Museum of Art
- Charleston, South Carolina
- 28 October 2011 to 8 January 2012
- Posing Beauty: African American Images From the 1890s to the Present
- USC Fisher Museum of Art
- University of Southern California
- Los Angeles, California
- 7 September to 3 December 2011
- Narrative, Sketch, Document: The Changing Roles of Photography
- Mishkin Gallery
- Baruch College
- New York, New York
- 23 September to 26 October 2011
- Slow Fade to Black
- Legacy Gallery
- North Adams, Massachusetts
- 28 July 2011 to 25 September 2011
- The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl
- Institute of Contemporary Art
- Boston, Massacuhusetts
- 15 April 2011 to 5 September 2011
- 30 Americans
- North Carolina Museum of Art
- Raleigh, North Carolina
- 20 March 2011 to 4 September 2011
- The Human Touch: Contemporary Art from the RBC Wealth Management Collection
- Museum of Fine Arts
- St. Petersburg, Florida
- 14 May 2011 to 4 September 2011
- Unsettled: Photography and Politics in Contemporary Art
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Philadelphia, PA
- 9 April 2011 to 21 August 2011
- Portraits
- Flomenhaft Gallery
- New York, New York
- 29 June 2011 to 13 August 2011
- Bodyscapes
- University Museum, Mechanical Hall
- University of Delaware
- Newark, Delaware
- 9 February 2011 to 15 July 2011
- Embodied: Black Identities in American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery
- Yale University Art Gallery
- New Haven, Connecticut
- 18 February 2011 to 26 June 2011
- Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America Collection
- Museum of Fine Arts
- Boston, Massachusetts
- 9 February 2011 to 19 June 2011
- Stargazers: Elizabeth Catlett in Conversation with 21 Contemporary Artists
- Bronx Museum of Art
- Bronx, New York
- 27 January 2011 to 29 May 2011
- Seeing Now: Photography Since 1960
- Baltimore Museum of Art
- Baltimore, Maryland
- 20 February 2011 to 15 May 2011
- Posing Beauty: African American Images From the 1890s to the Present
- Newark Museum
- Newark, New Jersey
- 2 February 2011 to 28 April 2011
- You Are Here
- Community Folk Art Center
- Syracuse, New York
- 8 April to 23 April 2011
- Safety in Numbers?: Images of African American Identity and Community
- Portland Art Museum
- Portland, Oregon
- 8 January 2011 to 11 April 2011
- The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991
- Neuberger Museum of Art
- Purchase College
- Purchase, New York
- 15 January 2011 to 3 April 2011
- Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography
- Museum of Modern Art
- New York, New York
- 7 May 2010 to 21 March 2011
- The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl
- Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
- Durham, North Carolina
- 2 September 2010 to 6 February 2011
- Myth, Manners and Memory: Photographers of the American South
- De La Warr Pavillion
- Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex, United Kingdom
- 1 October 2010 to 3 January 2011
- Off the Wall: Part 1 — Thirty Performative Actions
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- New York, New York
- 1 July 2010 to 19 September 2010
- Carrie Mae Weems: Estudios Sociales
- Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo
- Seville, Spain
- 20 May 2010 to 19 September 2010
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- Posing Beauty in African American Culture
- Taubman Museum of Art
- Roanoke, Virginia
- 11 June 2010 to 22 August 2010
- Slow Fade to Black
- Jack Shainman Gallery
- New York, New York
- 22 April 2010 to 22 May 2010
Recent Conversations, Lectures, Panels
- Arnold Newman Distinguished Visiting Artist Lecture in Photography
- The Corcoran College of Art + Design
- Washington, D.C.
- 12 November 2011
- Keynote Address
- Tennessee Art Education Association Conference
- Memphis College of Art
- Memphis, Tennessee
- 27 October 2011
- Posing Beauty Posing Questions
- University of Southern California
- Ronald Tutor Campus Center
- Los Angeles, California
- 4 October 2011, 5:00 pm
- Keynote address at South Central Regional Society for Photographic Education Conference
- University of Texas at San Antonio
- San Antonio, Texas
- 30 September 2011, 7:00 pm
- A conversation between artists David C. Driskell and Carrie Mae Weems
- David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland
- College Park, Maryland
- 15 September 2011
- Carrie Mae Weems, Richard Powell, and Kimberly Lamm
- Duke University
- Durham, North Carolina
- 3 February 2011
- Carrie Mae Weems: The Kitchen Table Series
- The Art Institute of Chicago
- Chicago, Illinois
- 9 December 2010
- Deborah Willis, Robin Kelsey, and Carrie Mae Weems on Posing Beauty in African American Culture
- The Williams College Museum of Art
- Williamstown, Massachusetts
- 21 October 2010
- Chakaia Booker and Carrie Mae Weems
- ACA Gallery of Savannah College of Art and Design
- Atlanta, Georgia
- 15 July 2010