Assistant Professor, Hampshire College, Amherst, Mas-
sachusetts, 1987–1991; Visiting Professor, Hunter Col-
lege, New York, New York, 1988–1989; Assistant
Professor, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oak-
land, California, 1991; Visiting Professor, Williams Col-
lege, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 2000; Visiting
Professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachu-
setts, 2001. Artist in Residence at the Visual Studies
Workshop, Rochester, New York, 1986; Light Work,
Syracuse, New York, 1988; Rhode Island School of
Design, Providence, Rhode Island, 1990; School of the
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1990; Atlantic
Center for the Arts, New Smyrna, Florida, 2001; Well-
esley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 2001. Received
Los Angeles Women’s Building Poster Award, 1981; Uni-
versity of California Fellowship Award, 1981–1985; Uni-
versity of California Chancellor’s Grant, 1982; California
Arts Council Grant, 1983; Photographer of the Year
Award, Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center,
San Francisco, 1994; National Endowment for the Arts
Visual Arts Grants, 1994; and The Alpert Award for
Visual Arts, 1996.
Individual Exhibitions
1984 Family Pictures and Stories; Multi-Cultural Gallery,
San Diego, California
1991 Currents: Carrie Mae Weems; Institute of Contempor-
ary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
And 22 Million Very Tired and Very Angry People;
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York,
New York
1992 Sea Islands; P.P.O.W., New York, New York
1993 Carrie Mae Weems; National Museum of Women in
the Arts, Washington, D.C. and traveling to The Forum
for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri; San Fran-
cisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, Califor-
nia; Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles, California;
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Center for
the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida; Walker Art Center, Min-
neapolis, Minnesota; Portland Art Museum, Portland,
Oregon; Institute of Contemporary Art and The Fabric
Workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1995 Carrie Mae Weems Reacts to Hidden Witness; J. Paul
Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California
Projects 52; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New
York
1996 From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried; The
Bunting Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Carrie Mae Weems: The Kitchen Table Series; Con-
temporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
1997 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Africus Institute for Con-
temporary Art, Johannesburg, South Africa
1998 Ritual & Revolution;Ku ̈nstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin,
Germany, and traveling to Berkeley Art Museum, Uni-
versity of California, Berkeley, California; DAK’ART
98: Biennale of Contemporary Art, Galerie Nationale
d’Art, Dakar, Senegal; Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chi-
cago, Illinois; University Art Gallery, San Diego State
University, San Diego, California
Carrie Mae Weems: Recent Work, 1992–1998; Ever-
son Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
Telling Histories: Installations by Ellen Rothenberg
and Carrie Mae Weems; Boston University Art Gallery,
Boston, Massachusetts
The Jefferson Suite; Santa Barbara Museum of Art,
Santa Barbara, California, and traveling to Parrish Art
Museum, Southampton, New York
2000 Carrie Mae Weems: The Hampton Project; Williams
College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts,
and traveling to International Center of Photography,
New York, New York; High Museum of Art, Atlanta,
Georgia; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City,
Missouri; University Art Museum, University of Cali-
fornia, Long Beach, California; Hood Museum of Art,
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Photographic Visions of Carrie Mae Weems; Zora
Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts, Eaton-
ville, Florida
Selected Group Exhibitions
1980 Contemporary Black Photographers; San Francisco
State University, San Francisco, California
1986 Past, Present, Future; The New Museum, New York,
New York
1987 The Castle; (installation by Group Material), Docu-
menta 8, Kassel, Germany
Visible Differences; Centro Cultural de la Raza, San
Diego, California
1988 Herstory: Black Women Photographers; Firehouse
Gallery, Houston, Texas
1990 Urban Home; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York,
New York
The Empire’s New Clothes; Camerawork, London,
England
1991 Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort; Museum
of Modern Art, New York, New York, and traveling to
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland; Los
Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Califor-
nia; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Whitney Biennial; Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, New York
Sexuality, Image and Control; Houston Center for
Photography, Houston, Texas
1992 Mis/Taken Identities; University Art Museum, Univer-
sity of California, Santa Barbara, California, and travel-
ing to Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; Forum
Stadtpark, Graz, Austria; Neues Museum Weserburg,
Bremen, Germany; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art,
Humlebaek, Denmark; Western Gallery, Western Wash-
ington University, Bellingham, Washington
1993 Fictions of the Self: The Portrait in Contemporary
Photography; Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of
North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina, and tra-
veling to Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, Massachusetts
1994 Bad Girls, Part I; The New Museum of Contemporary
Art, New York, New York
Existence and Gender: Women’s Representation of Women;
Sapporo American Center Gallery, Sapporo, Japan,
and traveling to Aka Renga Cultural Center, Fukuoka
City, Japan; Kyoto International Community House,
Kyoto, Japan; Aichi Prefectural Arts Center, Nagoya,
Japan; Osaka Prefectural Contemporary Arts Center,
Osaka, Japan; Spiral/Wacoal Arts Center, Tokyo, Japan
Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Con-
temporary American Art; Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York, New York, and traveling to Armand
Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
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