Solo show
Carrie Mae Weems: Looking Forward, Looking Back
22 Sep 2023 — 7 Jul 2024 at Smithsonian American Art Museum
· Washington, D.C.
Carrie Mae Weems: Looking Forward, Looking Back is a landmark exhibition bringing together works by one of the most celebrated and influential artists in contemporary American art. Spanning her prolific career, the show examines Weems's unflinching engagement with race, gender, identity, history, and political power.
Through photography, video, text, and installation, Weems has consistently challenged viewers to confront uncomfortable truths about American society and its legacies. This exhibition, presented in 2023–2024, offers both a retrospective glance at her foundational bodies of work and a forward-looking perspective on her continued artistic evolution.
Through photography, video, text, and installation, Weems has consistently challenged viewers to confront uncomfortable truths about American society and its legacies. This exhibition, presented in 2023–2024, offers both a retrospective glance at her foundational bodies of work and a forward-looking perspective on her continued artistic evolution.
About the artist
Carrie Mae Weems
1953 · contemporary art
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…
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
· Washington, D.C.
The Smithsonian American Art Museum is a museum in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution. Together with its branch museum, the Renwick Gallery, SAAM holds one of the world's largest and most inclusive collections of art made in the United States from the colonial period to the…