1996 Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African-
American Artists; Spellman College Museum of Fine Art,
Spellman College, Atlanta, Georgia, and traveling to Polk
Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida; Columbus Museum,
Columbus, Georgia; African American Museum, Dallas,
Texas, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul,
Minnesota; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South
Carolina; Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kan-
sas; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine; Museum
ofFineArts,Houston,Texas;African-AmericanHistory
and Cultural Museum, Fresno, California
1997 Inclusion/Exclusion: Art in the Age of Post Colonialism
and Global Migration; Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
1999 Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers
1840 to the Present; Smithsonian Anacostia Museum of
the Center for African American History and Culture,
Washington, D.C.
2001 Committed to the Image: A Half Century of Black
Photographers in America; Brooklyn Museum of Art,
Brooklyn, New York
Love Supreme; La Crie ́e Centre d’art contemporain,
Rennes, France
Selected Works
Blues & Pinks, (artists’ book), 1981
Stories, (artists’ book), 1982
Vanishing Cream, (artists’ book), 1982
Family Pictures and Stories: A Photographic Installation, 1984
Ain’t Jokin’, 1987–1988
American Icons, 1988–1989
Colored People, 1989–1990
Kitchen Table Series, 1990
Then What? Photographs and Folklore, 1990
Jim, If You Choose..., 1990
Sea Islands Series, 1991–1992
Africa Series, 1991–1992
And 22 Million Very Tired and Very Angry People, 1992
From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, 1995–1996
Ritual and Revolution, 1998
The Jefferson Suite, 1999
The Hampton Project, 2000
Further Reading
Coleman, A.D. ‘‘Cultural Tenacity Among the Gullah.’’
The New York Observer(December 21, 1992): 14.
Hagen, Charles. ‘‘Gullah Culture Casts Its Spell.’’The New
York Times(Friday, November 27, 1992).
Hamilton, David. ‘‘Carrie Mae Weems: Indictments of
Racism in Black and White.’’Art and Antiques(Septem-
ber 1993): 89.
Hooks,bell.‘‘TalkingArtwithCarrieMaeWeems.’’ArtonMy
Mind: Visual Politics. New York: The New Press, 1995.
Kimmelman, Michael. ‘‘Joys and Terrors on the Home
Front.’’The New York Times(September 27, 1990).
Kirsh, Andrea, and Susan Fisher Sterling.Carrie Mae
Weems. Washington DC: The National Museum of
Women in the Arts, 1993.
Littlefield, Kinney. ‘‘Photography and Poetry Extract
Beauty from Pain.’’The Orange County Register(Octo-
ber 25, 1991): 48.
Carrie Mae Weems, Ebo Landing from the ‘‘Sea Islands’’
series, 1992, Gelatin silver prints and text panel, Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, partial and pro-
mised gift from The Howard and Donna Stone Collection.
[Photograph#Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
Reproduced with permission of the artist]WEEMS, CARRIE MAE