WOMEN
IN PHOTOGRAPHY INTERNATIONAL
Distinguished Photographers 2005 Award
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
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
See
Distinguished Photographer's - 2003
Annie Leibovitz &
2004 Sylvia Plachy
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 by
Jean Ferro)
Sylvia Plachy, 2004 (presentation in collaboration w/Lucie Awards by Jean
Ferro & Joyce Tenneson)
Carrie Mae Weems, 2005
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