• Carrie Mae Weems
• Artist

Carrie Mae Weems is a conceptual artist who unpacks and confronts constructions of race and femininity in the pursuit of new models to live by. Grounded in the specificity of her lived experience as a Black woman but universal in its explorations of family relationships, cultural identity, power structures and social hierarchy, her artistic practice is primarily photographic but also incorporates text, fabric, audio, installation, and video. Informed by narrative storytelling, folkloric traditions and the observational methodologies of the social sciences, her approach to image-making ranges from staged and serialized narrative photography to the appropriation and adaptation of archival and ethnographic imagery. More recently, Weems received the Bernd and Hilla Becher Award, 2022 and was the first Black female to receive the Hasselblad Award, 2023. Weems is currently the inaugural Artist in Residence at Syracuse University and lives in Syracuse, New York with her husband Jeffrey Hoone who directed Light Work for four decades.