![]() ![]() Weems’s work has appeared in major exhibitions at Savannah College of Art and Design (2008) W. Awards include the MacArthur Fellowship (2013) Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2007) Skowhegan Medal for Photography (2007) Rome Prize Fellowship (2006) and the Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant in Photography (2002) among others. She has received honorary degrees from Colgate University (2007) and California College of the Arts (2001). Whether adapting or appropriating archival images, restaging famous news photographs, or creating altogether new scenes, she traces an indirect history of the depiction of African Americans of more than a century. Eliciting epic contexts from individually framed moments, Weems debunks racist and sexist labels, examines the relationship between power and aesthetics, and uses personal biography to articulate broader truths. Weems’s vibrant explorations of photography, video, and verse breathe new life into traditional narrative forms: social documentary, tableaux, self-portrait, and oral history. ![]()
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