![]() ![]() ![]() Her talents have been recognized by Harvard University and Wellesley College, with fellowships, artist-in-residence and visiting professor positions. is the real point." She continues to produce art that provides social commentary on the experiences of people of color, especially black women, in America. ![]() ![]() She once said, "Let me say that my primary concern in art, as in politics, is with the status and place of Afro-Americans in the country." More recently however, she expressed that "Black experience is not really the main point rather, complex, dimensional, human experience and social inclusion. Her photographs, films and videos focus on serious issues facing African Americans today, including racism, sexism, politics and personal identity. She achieved prominence through her early 1990s photographic project The Kitchen Table Series. MacArthur Fellowship (2013), Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2007), Rome Prize Fellowship (2006), Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in Photography (2002), Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society (2019), Hasselblad Award 2023.Ĭarrie Mae Weems (born April 20, 1953) is an American artist working in text, fabric, audio, digital images and installation video, and is best known for her photography. University of California, San Diego ( MFA) ![]()
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