Carrie Mae Weems

Carrie Mae Weems

American · b. 1954

Carrie Mae Weems is an American artist working in text, fabric, audio, digital images and installation video, and is best known for her photography. She achieved prominence… (Wikipedia)

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  1. Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled (man smoking) from Kitchen Table Series, 1990, Gelatin silver printUntitled (man smoking) from Kitchen Table SeriesPhillips · $70,000≈ £55,062≈ €62,095Sign up to see
  2. Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled (Woman Playing Solitaire) from The Kitchen Table, 1990, Gelatin silver printUntitled (Woman Playing Solitaire) from The Kitchen TablePhillips · $62,500≈ £38,592≈ €49,591Sign up to see
  3. Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled (Woman and daughter with makeup) from Kitchen Table Series, 1990, Gelatin silver print, mounted to boardUntitled (Woman and daughter with makeup) from Kitchen Table SeriesPhillips · £40,000≈ $52,520≈ €45,101Sign up to see

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Carrie Mae Weems is an American artist working in text, fabric, audio, digital images and installation video, and is best known for her photography. She achieved prominence through her early 1990s photographic project The Kitchen Table Series. Her photographs, films and videos focus on serious issues facing African Americans today, including racism, sexism, politics and personal identity.

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Born 1954Wikidata Q5046268 ↗ULAN 500329422 ↗

In the collections of

Hessel Museum of ArtJ. Paul Getty MuseumMetropolitan Museum of ArtMinneapolis Institute of ArtMuseum of Modern ArtNational Gallery of CanadaPhiladelphia Museum of ArtPérez Art Museum MiamiSan Francisco Museum of Modern ArtSmithsonian American Art MuseumStudio Museum in HarlemThe Nelson-Atkins Museum of ArtVanderbilt Museum of ArtWhitney Museum of American ArtArt Institute of Chicago

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Also known as Carrie Mae Wees

Artist record compiled from: auction results, Art Institute of Chicago API (CC0), Wikidata (CC0), MoMA collection data (CC0). See data sources & attribution.

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