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Artists›Carrie Mae Weems

Carrie Mae Weems

1953

WA-00012623

PhotographyContemporaryInstallation Art

Representation

None documented

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Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ5046268

MoMA

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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David Hammons: Day’s End

Whitney Museum of American Art

Field Verification (4 fields)

1 cross-verified · 3 single-source

Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
NationalityArtsy· 85%
BiographyGallery Generic· 72%
LocationGallery Generic· 72%

Source Registry (4)

Sothebyshttps://www.sothebys.com/en/artists/carrie-mae-weems
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
White-Cubehttps://www.artsy.net/artist/carrie-mae-weems
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/7177
Tier 1 · Institutional92%
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Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred35%

About

Why this artist matters now

No biography available for Carrie Mae Weems yet.

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Movement

Contemporary

Medium

Photography

Related Artists

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Cleveland Museum of Art Museum of Modern ArtNew York Art Institute of Chicago Victoria and Albert Museum Whitney Museum of American Art Whitney Museum of American Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Artworks (39)

Cyclorama - The Shape of Things, A Video in 7 Parts

2021 · High-definition video (color, sound)

40 min.

Museum of Modern Art

The Rivington Place Portfolio

2006 · Print

Victoria and Albert Museum

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After Manet

2002 · Inkjet print

7 1/2" (19 cm) (diameter)

Museum of Modern Art

For Your Names You Took Hope and Humble

1995 · Chromogenic print, overlaid with text sandblasted in glass

Image, diameter, sight: Diam.: 45.7 cm (18 in.); Window mat: 59.7 × 49.4 cm (23 9/16 × 19 1/2 in.); Frame: 67.8 × 57.6 × 2.6 cm (26 3/4 × 22 11/16 × 1 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Black and Tanned Your Whipped Wind of Change Howled Low Blowing Itself - Ha - Smack into the Middle of Duke Ellington's Orchestra Billie Heard It Too & Cried Strange Fruit Tears

1995 · Chromogenic print and sandblasted glass

Image, diameter, sight: Diam.: 45.7 cm (18 in.); Window mat: 59.7 × 49.4 cm (23 9/16 × 19 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Restless After the Longest Winter You Marched & Marched & Marched

1995 · Chromogenic print with sand-blasted text on glass

23 7/8 × 19 15/16" (60.7 × 50.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Riders & Men of Letters

1995 · Chromogenic print with sand-blasted text on glass

23 7/8 × 19 15/16" (60.7 × 50.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Yard

1995 · Chromogenic print with sand-blasted text on glass

23 7/8 × 19 15/16" (60.7 × 50.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

For Your Names You Took Hope & Humble

1995 · Chromogenic print with sand-blasted text on glass

23 7/8 × 19 15/16" (60.7 × 50.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Out of Deep Rivers Mixed Matched Mulattos a Variety of Types Mind You-Ha Sprang Up Everywhere

1995 · Chromogenic print with sand-blasted text on glass

19 15/16 × 23 7/8" (50.7 × 60.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Drivers

1995 · Chromogenic print with sand-blasted text on glass

23 7/8 × 19 15/16" (60.7 × 50.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Born with a Veil You Became Root Worker Juju Mama Voodoo Queen Hoodoo Doctor

1995 · Chromogenic print with sand-blasted text on glass

23 7/8 × 19 15/16" (60.7 × 50.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Black and Tanned Your Whipped Wind of Change Howled Low Blowing Itself-Ha-Smack into the Middle of Ellington's Orchestra Billie Heard it too and Cried Strange Fruit Tears

1995 · Chromogenic print with sand-blasted text on glass

23 7/8 × 19 15/16" (60.7 × 50.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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And Your Lack Became Another Man's Goose

1995 · Chromogenic print with sand-blasted text on glass

23 7/8 × 19 15/16" (60.7 × 50.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Your Resistence was Found in the Food You Placed on the Master's Table-Ha

1995 · Chromogenic print with sand-blasted text on glass

19 15/16 × 23 7/8" (50.7 × 60.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Field

1995 · Chromogenic print with sand-blasted text on glass

23 7/8 × 19 15/16" (60.7 × 50.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

House

1995 · Chromogenic print with sand-blasted text on glass

23 7/8 × 19 15/16" (60.7 × 50.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Kitchen

1995 · Chromogenic print with sand-blasted text on glass

23 7/8 × 19 15/16" (60.7 × 50.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

You Became Uncle Tom John & Clemens' Jim

1995 · Chromogenic print with sand-blasted text on glass

23 7/8 × 19 15/16" (60.7 × 50.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

You Became a Whisper a Symbol of a Voyage & by the Sweat of Your Brow You Laboured for Self Family & Other

1995 · Chromogenic print with sand-blasted text on glass

23 7/8 × 19 15/16" (60.7 × 50.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Some Laughed Long & Hard & Loud

1995 · Chromogenic print with sand-blasted text on glass

19 15/16 × 23 7/8" (50.6 × 60.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

In Your Sing Song Prayer You Asked Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?

1995 · Chromogenic print with sand-blasted text on glass

23 7/8 × 19 15/16" (60.7 × 50.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried

1995 · Chromogenic prints with sand-blasted text on glass

28 works: 26 3/4 × 22" (67.9 × 55.8 cm); 4 works: 22 × 26¾" (55.8 × 67.9 cm); 2 works: 43 1/2 × 33 1/2" (110.4 × 85 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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You Became a Scientific Profile, A Negroid Type, An Anthropological Debate, & A Photographic Subject

1995 · Chromogenic prints with sand-blasted text on frame glass

Frame: 26 5/8 × 22 5/8 in. (67.6 × 57.5 cm), each

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Artwork sources (6)

39 published of 64 catalogued · 48 with image

MoMA
25 publishedof 50 catalogued43 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
6 published
Art Institute Chicago
4 published4 img
The Met
2 published
Victoria & Albert
1 published1 img
Whitney
1 published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 6)

6 entries · 1 sources

The Kitchen Table Series: Untitled (Man reading Newspaper)
1990 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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The Kitchen Table Series
1990 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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The Kitchen Table Series: Text Sheet
1990 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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The Kitchen Table Series: Untitled (Woman and Daughter with Makeup)
1990 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Untitled
1992 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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The Kitchen Table Series: Untitled (Man and Mirror)
1990 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Record

Images

Artsy

Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

Peers & Context3

David Hammonsco-exhibitedGordon Matta-Clarkco-exhibitedDavid Hammonsco-exhibited

Movements2

Contemporary Installation Art

Collections9

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Cleveland Museum of Art Museum of Modern Art Art Institute of Chicago Victoria and Albert Museum Whitney Museum of American Art

Institutional

Representation & Collections

Gallery

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

Boston, United States

In collection

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Victoria and Albert Museum

In collection

Whitney Museum of American Art

In collection

Whitney Museum of American Art

In collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Market

Auction sale history

Houses that have sold works by this artist at auction

Auction house

Artsy

1 lot · 2026

Background

Education

University of California, Berkeley

Visual Arts

California Institute of the Arts

Bachelor of Arts

University of California, San Diego

Master of Fine Arts

Network

Related Artists

Gordon Matta-Clark

Painting

co exhibited with

Market

Auction History

Work	Auction House	Date	Estimate	Hammer Price
Untitled	Artsy	Mar 2026	$2,000 – $3,000	$1,200

Record

Exhibitions and timeline

Exhibition Collection Spotlight: Carrie Mae Weems

Exhibition David Hammons: Day’s End