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Artists›Carrie Mae Weems

Carrie Mae Weems

1953

PhotographyContemporaryInstallation Art

Representation

None documented

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Cultural Positioning

Movements

• Contemporary
• Installation Art

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Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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David Hammons: Day’s End

Whitney Museum of American Art

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Movement

Contemporary

Medium

Photography

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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

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

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

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Movements and affiliations

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

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co exhibited with

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Auction History

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

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Exhibitions and timeline

Exhibition Collection Spotlight: Carrie Mae Weems

Exhibition David Hammons: Day’s End