2004 Sylvia Plachy & 2003 Annie Leibovitz

Women In Photography International
Distinguished Photographer's Award - 2004
Sylvia Plachy - LUCIE AWARDS, 2nd Annual
presented by Jean Ferro, WIPI & Joyce Tenneson

Nominees: Jodi Cobb, Anne Geddes, Nan Goldin, Heidi Hollinger, Connie Imboden, Sally Mann, Susan Meiselas, Catherine Opie, Sylvia Plachy, Cindy Sherman, Peggy Sirota, Carrie Mae Weems

LUCIE -WIPI Photos at event - 2003

see: WIPI News Feature on Annie Leibovitz - 2003
International Photo Awards
Gala Event, Sunday, December 7, 2003

see: WIPI News Feature on Annie
Women In Photography International Distinguished Photographer's Award - 2002
Annie Leibovitz
presented by Jean Ferro, WIPI / 1st Annual Lucie Awards

Nominees: Uta Barth, Lillian Bassman, Jodi Cobb, Helen Levitt, Annie Leibovitz, Sally Mann, Annette Messager, Catherine Opie, Cindy Sherman, Carrie Mae Weems, Mariana Yampolsky

Distinguished Photographer's Award
Established to give recognition to an artist who has contributed significantly to the world of photography. Past recipients include:

Eve Arnold, 1983
Ruth Bernhard, 1984
Judy Dater, 1985
Marion Post Wolcott, 1986
Linda McCartney, 1987
Mary Ellen Mark, 1988
Ruth Orkin, 1989
Joyce Tenneson, 1990
Berenice Abbott, 1991
Grace Robertson, 1992
Annie Leibovitz, 2003 (presentation in collaboration w/Lucie Awards)
Sylvia Plachy, 2004 (presentation in collaboration w/Lucie Awards)
Carrie Mae Weems, 2005
2006 - 2008, 25th Anniversary One Hundred Distingiuished & Emerging Photographers

Distinguished Photographers 2005 Award

Women In Photography International Distinguished Photographer's Award - 2005
Carrie Mae Weems

Women In Photography International is happy to announce Carrie Mae Weems the recipient of our 2005 Distinguished Photographers Award.

Since Weems early involvement in Women In Photography, her photography career has prospered and is world-renowned. Weems uses narrative elements in her photography to examine class and gender issues through the window of personal experience and African-American heritage.

Awards include The Alpert Award for Visual Arts (1996), Visual Arts Fellowship (National Endowment for the Arts / 1994), Photographer of the Year (Friends of Photography / 1994) and selected one person exhibitions at Museum of Modern Art / New York, International Center of Photography, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Museum of Modern Art / San Francisco. Since 1980, Carrie Mae Weems photographs and installations have been exhibited widely in the United States and abroad in nearly fifty one-person shows and numerous group exhibitions

"My responsibility as an artist is to work, to sing for my supper, to make art, beautiful and powerful, that adds and reveals; to beautify the mess of a messy world, to heal the sick and feed the helpless; to shout bravely from the rooftops and storm barricaded doors and voice the specificity of our historical moment." --Carrie Mae Weems

Carrie joins the ranks of WIPI's recognized greatest which include: Eve Arnold, (1983)
Ruth Bernhard, (1984) Judy Dater, (1985) Marion Post Wolcott, (1986) Linda McCartney, (1987) Mary Ellen Mark, (1988) Ruth Orkin, (1989) Joyce Tenneson, (1990) Berenice Abbott, (1991) Grace Robertson, (1992) Annie Leibovitz, (2003) Sylvia Plachy, (2004)

Image: Carrie Mae Weems in her Self Portrait "I looked and looked to see what so terrified you." From her installation "Louisiana Project."

Carrie Mae Weems represented by
Charles Guice Contemporary Gallery, Berkeley, CA

Women In Photography - Thea Litsios and Orah Moore remember Carrie and the 1981 first WIP gatherings in Los Angeles with pictures and letters
http://www.womeninphotography.org/historical/WIPIhistory2.html#thea

See  Charles Guice Gallery for full resume with Group exhibitions and bibliography
http://charlesguice.com/artists_cmw.html

Education  
1984-87
Graduate Program in Folklore, University of California, Berkeley, CA
1984
MFA, University of California, San Diego, CA
1981
BA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

One Person Exhibitions  
2004
Dreaming in Cuba and The Louisiana Project, Spelman University Art Museum, Atlanta, GA
Coming Up for Air, Meaning & Landscape (film screenings), MoMAFilm at the Gramercy, NY
May Days Long Forgotten (DVD), Lobby Video Project, MoMAQns, Queens, NY
The Hampton Project, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, MI
The Jefferson Suite, University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA
May Days Long Forgotten, Gallery 210, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MI

2003
The Louisiana Project, Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
May Flowers Long Forgotten & A Little Bit of This and A Little Bit of That ,P·P·O·W, NY,N.Y.
A Certain Kind of Love, P.C.O.G. Gallery, New York, NY
Self & Soul: The Architecture of Intimacy, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC

2002
Project Space, Beacon Cultural Project, Beacon, NY
From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, SC
Africa Series, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, Reno, NV
Ritual & Revolution, University Arts Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
The Jefferson Suite, Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA

2001
Photographic Visions of Carrie Mae Weems, Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts, Etonville, FL
The Jefferson Suite, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Carrie Mae Weems: Mirrors and Windows, BGSU Fine Arts Center Galleries, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH

2000-02
Carrie Mae Weems: The Hampton Project, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA. Traveling to: 
International Center of Photography, New York, NY; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; University Art Museum, University of California, Long Beach, CA; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

1999
Ritual & Revolution, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Telling Histories: Installations by Ellen Rothenberg and Carrie Mae Weems, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
The Jefferson Suite, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

1998-99
Recent Work: Carrie Mae Weems 1992-98, Everson Art Museum, Syracuse, NY

1998
Who What When Where, Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, NYC
Ritual & Revolution, DAK'ART 98: Biennale of Contemporary Art, Galerie Nationale d'Art, Dakar, Senegal
Ritual & Revolution, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Ritual & Revolution, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Harriet Tubman Museum of Art, Macon, GA

1997
2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Africus Institute for Contemporary Art, Johannesburg, South Africa
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Cline LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Three Rivers Festival, Philadelphia, PA

1996
From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
Carrie Mae Weems: The Kitchen Table Series, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, The Bunting Institute, Cambridge, MA

1995
Carrie Mae Weems Reacts to Hidden Witness, J. Paul Getty Museum of Art, Malibu,CA
Projects 52, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1994
The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hannover, NH, organized by William Dooley; traveled to: 
Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL; Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL; Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon State College, Ashland, OR; McKissick Museum, GA; Museum of Art, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

1993
Sea Islands, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Sea Islands, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA

Traveling One Person Exhibition, Carrie Mae Weems, curated by Andrea Kirsh and Susan Fisher Sterling. Traveled to: The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC; The Forum, St. Louis, MO; Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles, CA;Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA

1992
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
And 22 Million Very Tired and Very Angry People, Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Sea Islands ,P·P·O·W, NY
Family, Pictures and Stories, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH

1991
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA
And 22 Million Very Tired and Very Angry People, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Matrix Gallery, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT
Family Pictures and Stories, curated by Perry Nesbitt, Albright College, Reading, PA
Carrie Mae Weems: Two Works, curated by Phyllis Lutjeans, University of Southern California at Irvine, Irvine, CA
Family Pictures and Stories, curated by Wendy Kaplan, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA

1990
Calling Out My Name, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY; traveled October, P·P·O·W, New York, NY

1989
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

1987
Hampshire College Art Gallery, October, Amherst, MA

1984
Family Pictures and Stories, Multi-Cultural Gallery, San Diego, CA

Awards and Residencies  

2005
Syracuse University Carrie Mae Weems joins SU as artist-in-residence - beginning a yearlong residency in Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts, the first of its kind under the auspices of VPA. The residency, titled Social Studies 101, Syracuse: A Community Dialogue,Ó

2003
Artist in Residence, The Record Shop:A Social Studies Project, Beacon Cultural Project, Beacon, NY

Commission for New Work, Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

2002
Pollack Krasner Foundation grant in Photography (Pilot Program)

2001
Artist in Residence, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA

Artist in Residence, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

Artist-in-Residence, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna, FL

1996
The Alpert Award for Visual Arts

1994
National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Grant

1990
Artists in Residence, Art Institute of Chicago

Artists in Residence, Rhode Island School of Design

The Engelhard Grant

1988
Artists in Residence, Light Work, Syracuse, NY

Massachusetts Artists Fellowship, (finalist)

1986
Artist in Residence, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY

1983
California Arts Council Grant

1982
University of California Chancellor's Grant

1981-85
University of California Fellowship Award

1981
Los Angeles Women's Building Poster Award

Teaching Experience  
2001
Visiting Professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2000
Visiting Professor, Williams College, Williamstown, MA

1991
Assistant Professor, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

1988-89
Visiting Professor, Hunter College, New York, NY

1987-91
Assistant Professor, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA

1987
Teaching Assistant, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

1985-86
Folklife Program-Festival at the Lake, Oakland, CA

1984
Teacher, San Diego City College, San Diego, CA

1978
Teaching Assistant, University of California, San Diego, CA

Professional Affiliations  
Women In Photography International Board Member

SEE P.P.O.W Gallery for full resume including group Group exhibitions
http://www.ppowgallery.com/artists/CarrieMaeWeems/bio.html



AGENT:
Charles Guice Contemporary Gallery

Syracuse University Alumni Monthly E-Newsletter Orangebytes - Feb. 2005
http://alumni.syr.edu/ArchiveStories2005/Issue2-05-2.htm

CARRIE MAE WEEMS PORTFOLIO
Exhibition at University Art Museum, CSU Long Beach, January 29 - April 21, 2002

Syracuse University Sept. 11 thru Oct. 12
Carrie Mae Weems: forms of memory' and 'borders and memory'
http://www.syr.edu/news/2005-09-07_7664.html

ArtNet
http://www.artnet.com/ag/fineartthumbnails.asp?aid=17631

Current Exhibitions:
Figuratively Speaking February 5 Ð October 30, 2005 Plaza Level Gallery
http://www.miamiartmuseum.org/exhibitions-current-speaking.asp
Figuratively Speaking includes works from MAMA's permanent collection and key loans from private collections in South Florida.

article / lecture links

Carrie Mae Weems Lecture
http://www.uky.edu/PR/News/050321_weems_lecture.htm
LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 21, 2005) -- Internationally renowned artist and photographer Carrie Mae Weems will spend an afternoon in Lexington as part of events sponsored by the University of Kentucky Art Museum and the 2005 Kentucky Women Writers Conference.

UC Berkeley Regents' Lectureship brings array of luminaries, Carrie Mae Weems, Art Practice, March 10, 2005 http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2005/03/02_lectures.shtml

Contemporary Arts Museum
http://www.nathanielturner.com/carriemaeweems.htm

Artist Lecture: Sunday, Sept. 13, 3pm, George Gund Theater, BAM/PFA
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibits/weems/

On Edge More Than Meets the Eye The Quiet Revolution of Carrie Mae Weems by C. Carr February 28th, 2003
http://www.villagevoice.com/art/0310,carr,42270,13.html

Women In Photography International Distinguished Photographer's Award - 2005
Carrie Mae Weems (Carrie living in Rome on a project, Award notification by e-mail)

nominees included: Jane Evelyn Atwood, Anne Geddes, Nan Goldin, Lynn Goldsmith, Heidi Hollinger, Connie Imboden, Sally Mann, Susan Meiselas, Cindy Sherman, Peggy Sirota, Carrie Mae Weems