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.

Framed black and white photograph of three people seated on a pedestal lit by a spotlight in a darkened room

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 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

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.

Four framed artworks of black and white storefronts framed by text panels

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 women in black dress on cobblestone steps with her back to the viewer

Framed black and white photograph of a women in a black dress facing away from viewer amongst a cobblestoned town square

A grid of 15 framed maroon toned photographs hanging on grey walls