Carrie Mae Weems
Know for: Acting
Born: 1953-04-20
Place of birth: Portland, Oregon, USA
Also know as:
The Shape of Things (2021)
A cyclorama installation where artist Carrie Mae Weems addresses conditions of race in the United States. 'The Shape of Things: A Film in Seven...
Holocaust Memorial (2013)
In this performance for camera, Weems creates a ritual dance through the pillars of Peter Eisenmann’s ‘Memorial to the Murdered Jews of...
Carrie Mae Weems: Speaking of Art (2012)
In 2004 Checkerboard had the privilege of filming Carrie Mae Weems discussing her body of work, comprised of 17 projects spanning more than two...
Black Art: In the Absence of Light (2021)
An introduction to the work of some of the foremost Black visual artists working today, inspired by the late David Driskell's landmark 1976...
Lincoln, Lonnie, and Me (2012)
Carrie Mae Weems draws on narrative formats such as self-portraiture, social documentary and oral history to scrutinize notions of subjectivity in...
The Shape of Things (2021)
A cyclorama installation where artist Carrie Mae Weems addresses conditions of race in the United States. 'The Shape of Things: A Film in Seven...
Holocaust Memorial (2013)
In this performance for camera, Weems creates a ritual dance through the pillars of Peter Eisenmann’s ‘Memorial to the Murdered Jews of...
Italian Dreams (1970)
In one scene in Italian Dreams, we see a close-cropped view of Weems’s face juxtaposed with the visages of two young black women. She caresses...
Afro Chic (2009)
Afro-Chic explores the construction of identity through the presentation of several women wearing exaggerated Afro hairstyles and sassy attire as...
People of a Darker Hue (2016)
People of a Darker Hue, 2016 Video, 14 minutes, 58 seconds © Carrie Mae Weems. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
People of a Darker Hue (2016)
People of a Darker Hue, 2016 Video, 14 minutes, 58 seconds © Carrie Mae Weems. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
The Madding Crowd (2017)
"A great many conundrums." An assemblage of found footage.
Surveillance (2016)
A short film connecting contemporary state surveillance to histories of Black insurgency.
Cornered (2017)
An installation utilizing two adjoining screens mounted in a corner. On the opposing sides, groups of people protest for and against desegregation...
People of a Darker Hue (2016)
People of a Darker Hue, 2016 Video, 14 minutes, 58 seconds © Carrie Mae Weems. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.