Carrie Mae Weems: Selected Works

Over the course of forty years, Carrie Mae Weems has built a body of work incorporating photographs, text, installation, and video, focused on the relationships between personal experience, identity, and class, and the larger systems of power that shape our lives.

Color image of boarded up store front with paint splotches covering graffiti in black frame
Black and white photograph of a figure in all black looking at concrete wall
Black and white photograph of a figure in black looking at a pyramid within a city from the crosswalk framed in black
Two framed blue-toned, soft-focus photographs, one depicting a boy in a hat and hooded sweatshirt facing forward, and one in profile.
Framed artwork consisting of a column of three adjacent framed photographs and a framed text panel adjacent to the top image. The images depict homes in West Africa, with stairways leading to the tops of homes.
Framed black and white photograph of three people seated on a pedestal lit by a spotlight in a darkened room
Image of a framed black and white photograph depicting a solitary black-clad woman walking through the crosswalk toward an imposing building.
Framed black and white photograph of suited figure with white gloves and top hat wearing a mask depicting a zebra
Framed black and white photograph of suited figure with white gloves wearing a mask depicting a donkey
Four framed artworks of black and white storefronts framed by text panels
Three framed black and white photographs. In the first, an African American woman stands silhouetted in a doorway; in the second, an African-American man appears outside of the door; in the third, the two embrace, silhouetted in the doorway.