Carrie Mae Weems

Carrie Mae Weems is a groundbreaking American artist whose work foregrounds Black life while challenging systems of power, erasure, and inequality. For over four decades, she has created an acclaimed body of photographs, installations, videos, and texts that connect personal experience to broader histories and structures. Her iconic Kitchen Table Series (1990) explores intimate and social dimensions of Black womanhood, while works such as And 22 Million Very Tired and Very Angry People (1989–90) and From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried (1995–96) expose photography’s role in shaping racism and highlight the power of resistance and collective action.

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