Part storyteller, folklorist, and image–maker, Carrie Mae Weems has defied simple explanation for more than twenty-five years. Throughout her career, integrating conceptual photography, video, installation and sound, Weems has employed the visual image to document and challenge our perceptions of race and class, gender roles and family systems, and politics and government. Considered one the foremost contemporary artists of a generation, The Saint Louis Dispatch declared her 1996 series, From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, "one of the masterpieces of our time."
Weems has also exhibited throughout the United States and internationally for more than twenty years, and has had solo and group shows at The Museum of Modern Art, the International Center of Photography, the J. Paul Getty Museum, The High Museum of Art, The Walker Art Center, and The Whitney Museum.
Her work is included in both public and private collections around the world, including the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Weems' work has been represented at DAK’ART, the Biennale of Contemporary Art in Dakar, the Johannesburg Biennale in Johannesburg, South Africa, and the Whitney Biennial in New York.
