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Carrie Mae Weems
Carrie Mae Weems (b 1953, USA; lives and works in Syracuse, New York) has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions at major international museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Frist Center for Visual Art, and more recently her major retrospective travelled across the US before its final iteration at the Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York. Weems has received numerous awards, grants and fellowships, including the prestigious Prix de Roma, The National Endowment of the Arts, The Alpert, The Anonymous was a Woman, and The Tiffany Awards. In 2012, Weems was presented with one of the first US Department of State’s Medals of Arts in recognition for her commitment to the State Department’s Art in Embassies programme. In 2013 she received the MacArthur ‘Genius’ grant as well as the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Carrie Mae Weems is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery, New York and Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin.
Carrie Mae Weems
Biography
Carrie Mae Weems (b 1953, USA; lives and works in Syracuse, New York) has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions at major international museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Frist Center for Visual Art, and more recently her major retrospective travelled across the US before its final iteration at the Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York. Weems has received numerous awards, grants and fellowships, including the prestigious Prix de Roma, The National Endowment of the Arts, The Alpert, The Anonymous was a Woman, and The Tiffany Awards. In 2012, Weems was presented with one of the first US Department of State’s Medals of Arts in recognition for her commitment to the State Department’s Art in Embassies programme. In 2013 she received the MacArthur ‘Genius’ grant as well as the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Carrie Mae Weems is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery, New York and Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin.
