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Carrie Mae Weems (b. 1953, Portland, Oregon) lives and works in Syracuse, New York. Recent exhibitions include The Heart of the Matter at Gallerie d'Italia, Painting the Town at the Rijksmuseum, Remember to Dream at CCS Bard Hessel, Carrie Mae Weems: The Shape of Things at LUMA Arles, Reflections for Now at Barbican Art Gallery in London, The Evidence of Things Not Seen , organized by Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart and thereafter traveled to Kunstmuseum Basel, as well as Carrie Mae Weems: Remember to Dream at Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College. In the spring of 2023, Weems served as the inaugural Agnes Gund Professor of the Practice of Arts and Social Justice at Brown University, a residency that culminated in the campus-wide activation collectively titled Varying Shades of Brown. Weems has received numerous awards, grants, and fellowships, including a National Medal of Arts, Hasselblad Award, the Bernd and Hilla Becher Prize, the MacArthur “Genius” grant, the US State Department’s Medal of Arts, the Joseph Hazen Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome, NEA grants, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award, among others. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and The Tate Modern, London, among others. ↓ Bibliography ↓ Biography