Education

Graduate Program in Folklore, University of California, Berkeley, CA

1984

MFA, University of California, San Diego, CA

BA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

One Person Exhibitions

2004

Dreaming in Cuba and The Louisiana Project, Spelman University Art Museum, Atlanta, GA

Coming Up for Air, Meaning & Landscape (film screenings), MoMAFilm at the Gramercy, NY

May Days Long Forgotten (DVD), Lobby Video Project, MoMAQns, Queens, NY

The Hampton Project, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, MI

The Jefferson Suite, University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA

May Days Long Forgotten, Gallery 210, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MI

2003

The Louisiana Project, Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

May Flowers Long Forgotten & A Little Bit of This and A Little Bit of That ,P·P·O·W, NY,N.Y.

A Certain Kind of Love, P.C.O.G. Gallery, New York, NY

Self & Soul: The Architecture of Intimacy, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC

2002

Project Space, Beacon Cultural Project, Beacon, NY

From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, SC

Africa Series, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, Reno, NV

Ritual & Revolution, University Arts Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA

The Jefferson Suite, Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA

2001

Photographic Visions of Carrie Mae Weems, Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts, Etonville, FL

The Jefferson Suite, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY

Carrie Mae Weems: Mirrors and Windows, BGSU Fine Arts Center Galleries, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH

Carrie Mae Weems: The Hampton Project, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA. Traveling to: International Center of Photography, New York, NY; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; University Art Museum, University of California, Long Beach, CA; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

1999

Ritual & Revolution, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

Telling Histories: Installations by Ellen Rothenberg and Carrie Mae Weems, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA

The Jefferson Suite, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

Recent Work: Carrie Mae Weems 1992-98, Everson Art Museum, Syracuse, NY

1998

Who What When Where, Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, NYC

Ritual & Revolution, DAK'ART 98: Biennale of Contemporary Art, Galerie Nationale d'Art, Dakar, Senegal

Ritual & Revolution, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA

Ritual & Revolution, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

Harriet Tubman Museum of Art, Macon, GA

1997

2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Africus Institute for Contemporary Art, Johannesburg, South Africa

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA

Cline LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

Three Rivers Festival, Philadelphia, PA

1996

From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, P·P·O·W, New York, NY

Carrie Mae Weems: The Kitchen Table Series, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL

From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, The Bunting Institute, Cambridge, MA

1995

Carrie Mae Weems Reacts to Hidden Witness, J. Paul Getty Museum of Art, Malibu,CA

Projects 52, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hannover, NH, organized by William Dooley; traveled to: Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL; Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL; Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon State College, Ashland, OR; McKissick Museum, GA; Museum of Art, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

1993

Sea Islands, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Sea Islands, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA

The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA

Traveling One Person Exhibition, Carrie Mae Weems, curated by Andrea Kirsh and Susan Fisher Sterling. Traveled to: The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC; The Forum, St. Louis, MO; Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles, CA;Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA

1992

Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC

And 22 Million Very Tired and Very Angry People, Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

Sea Islands ,P·P·O·W, NY

Family, Pictures and Stories, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH

1991

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA

And 22 Million Very Tired and Very Angry People, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY

Matrix Gallery, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT

Family Pictures and Stories, curated by Perry Nesbitt, Albright College, Reading, PA

Carrie Mae Weems: Two Works, curated by Phyllis Lutjeans, University of Southern California at Irvine, Irvine, CA

Family Pictures and Stories, curated by Wendy Kaplan, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA

Calling Out My Name, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY; traveled October, P·P·O·W, New York, NY

1989

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

1987

Hampshire College Art Gallery, October, Amherst, MA

1984

Family Pictures and Stories, Multi-Cultural Gallery, San Diego, CA

Group Exhibitions

Beyond Compare: Women Photographers on Beauty, touring exhibition,

BCE, Toronto, CANADA

Fairview Mall, Toronto, CANADA

Lifefest, Toronto, CANADA

Manulife Place, CANADA

Edmondton, and Chinook Centre, Calgary, CANADA

Pacific Place Centre, Vancouver, CANADA

Complexe Desjardins, Montreal, CANADA

St. Laurent Centre, Ottawa, CANADA

Dam Square, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS

Pavilhao de Portugal, Lisbon, PORTUGAL

Through the Looking Glass: Women and Self-Representation in Contemporary Art, The Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State University, PA.

Video Lounge at the Miami Basel Art Fair (curated event), Miami, FL

Cuba on the Verge, International Center of Photography, New York, NY

Only Skin Deep, International Center of photography, New York, NY

Pictures From Within: American Photographs, 1958-2002, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Crimes and Misdemeanors: Politics in U.S. Art of the 1980's, Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, Ohio

Bronx Public Art: The Spotlight Series, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, N.Y.

On the Wall: Wallpaper and Tableau, touring exhibition to The RISD Museum, Providence, RI and The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA

SiteSpecific, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

Selections:Photography, The Anthony Giordano Gallery, Dowling College, Oakdale,NY

Skin Deep, Numark Gallery, Washington DC

Self & Soul: The Architecture of Intimacy, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC

Saturday Night/Sunday Morning, Leica Gallery, New York, NY  

Flesh Tones: 100 Years of the Nude, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY

The Auroral Light, Photographs by Women from Grolier Club Members Collection, Grolier Club, New York

Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO

Paradise, The Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga, N

TeleVisions, Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria

W, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dole, France

I'm Thinking of a Place, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Southern Exposure, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA

Issues of Identity in Recent American Art, Roland Gibson Gallery, SUNY, Potsdam, NY

Love Supreme, La Criee Contemporary Art Center, Rennes, France

Looking Forward, Looking Back, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

Selections from the Permanent Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

A Way With Words, Whitney Museum of American Art and Philip Morris, New York, NY

Collection in Context, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

Material and Matter: Loans to and Selections from the Studio Museum Collection, The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY

Committed to the Image: A Half Century of Black Photographers in America, Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY

The View From Here: Issues of Cultural Identity and Perspective in Contemporary Russian and American Art, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Collecting Ideas: Works from the Polly & Mark Addison Collection, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

Paradise Now, Exit Art, New York, NY

The Portrait in Contemporary Photography, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

Surface and Depth, Trends in Contemporary Portrait Photography, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College,

Odd Bodies, National Gallery of Canada, Calgary, Canada

Blackness in Color: Visual Expressions of the Black Arts Movement, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Rivers of Spirit: ArtWomen of the African Diaspora, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL

Southern Exposure, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA

Strength and Diversity: A Celebration of African American Artists, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present, Smithsonian Anacostia Museum of Center for African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C.

Frames of Reference: From Object to Subject, Wesleyan University Center for the Arts, Middletown, CT. Curated by Nina Felshin

Art-Worlds in Dialogue, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

Artist as Patron, Alternative Museum, New York, NY

Female, Wessel + O'Connor Gallery, New York, NY

Persuasion, Lombard-Fried Fine Arts, New York, NY. Curated by Lea Fried and Roxana Marcoci

True West ,P·P·O·W, New York, NY. Curated by Jason Murison

Other Narratives, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

The Art of Advocacy, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

Looking Forward, Looking Black, Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Detroit, Michigan

Re/Righting History: Counternarratives by Contemporary African-American Artists, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY

Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African-American Artists, traveled to: Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina; Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine; Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Texas; African- American History and Cultural Museum, Fresno, California

It's Only Rock and Roll, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas

Future-Present: Contemporary Photographs of Children From the Reader's Digest Collection, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

Photography's multiple roles: art, document, market, science, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois

Act/Language: Power and Display, Foster-Tanner Fine Arts Gallery, FAMU campus, Tallahassee, FL

In Visible Light, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African-American Artists, traveled to: Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida; Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia; African American Museum, Dallas, Texas; Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, Minnesota

It's Only Rock and Roll, Milwaukee Art Museum; Arkansas Art Center; Traveled to: Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, CA

Years Ending in Nine, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Taboo: Repression and Revolt in Modern Art, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, NY

Tell Me a Story: Narration in Contemporary Painting and Photography, Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, France

Claustrophobia: Disturbing the Domestic in Contemporary Art, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England. Travled to: Middlesbrough Art Gallery; Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston; Mappin Gallery, Sheffield; Cartwright Hall, Bradford; Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Denmark; Centre for Visual Arts, Cardiff

Roots & Reeds: The Amazing Grace of the Gullah People, Hunter College, New York, NY

Looking Forward, Looking Black, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Press, Geneva, NY

Histories (Re)membered, The Bronx Museum of Art, New York, NY

Changing Spaces, Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan

It's Only Rock and Roll, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, F

Alternating Currents, the Johannesburg Biennial, Johannesburg, South Africa

Making Pictures: Women and Photography, 1975 - Now, Curated by Nicole Klagsbrun, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA

It's Only Rock and Roll, the Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Four Decades ,P·P·O·W, New York

No Small Feat, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

Original Visions: Women, Art and the Politics of Gender, Boston College Museum of Art, Boston, MA

A Palette in a Pen's World, Georgia Museum of Art, Acworth, Georgia

dislocations/siirtymiä, curated by Pirkko Siitari and Leena Lohiniva, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland

Inclusion Exclusion, Art in the Age of Post Colonialism and Global Migration, Steirischer Herbst, Austria

Tragic Wake: The Legacy of Slavery and the African Diaspora in Contemporary Art, Spirit Square Center for Arts and Education, Middletown McMillan Gallery, Charlotte, NC

It's Only Rock and Roll, Bedford Gallery, Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA

Embedded Metaphor, curated by Nina Felshin, Independent Curators International, traveled to: John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL; Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine; Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, Virginia Beach, Virginia; Ezra and Celcile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African-American Artists, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA

Inside the Visible, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC international traveling exhibition

It's Only Rock and Roll, traveled to: Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences Peoria, IL; Virginia Beach Center of the Arts; Tacoma Art Museum, Washington; Jacksonville Museum of Art.

Herkunft, Winterthur Fotomuseum, curated by Urs Stahel, Winterthur, Switzerland

Gender-Beyond Memory, curated by Michiko Kasahara, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan

From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, Bienale Firenze 96, Florence, Italy

Inclusion/Exclusion, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria

Tragic Wake: The Legacy of Slavery and the African Diaspora in Contemporary American Art, Spirit Square Center for Arts and Education, Charlotte, NC

Transforming the Social Order, Tyler Galleries, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

Act/Language: Power & Display, The Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Carribean, Y Building, City University of New York, NY

Burning Issues: Contemporary African-American Art, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL

It's Only Rock and Roll, the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH

Art About Life: Contemporary American Culture, curated by Karina Skvirsky & Jennifer Pearson, Fine Arts Gallery, Indiana University.

'95 Kwangju Biennale, Seoul, Korea

StoryLand: Narrative Vision and Social Space, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Canada

Imagining Families: Images and Voices, curated by Deborah Willis, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

Black Male, Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art, curated by Thelma Golden, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY and The Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA

Gesture and Pose, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Bad Girls, Part 1, curated Marcia Tanner and Marcia Tucker, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY

Women's Representation of Women, curated by Dana Friis-Hansen and Yuko Hayashi; Traveled to: Sapporo American Center Gallery, Sapporo, Japan; Aka Renga Cultural Center, Fukuoka City, Japan; Kyoto International Community House, Kyoto, Japan; Aichi Prefectural Arts Center, Nagoya, Japan; Osaka Prefectural Contemporary Arts Center, Japan; Spiral Arts Center, Tokyo, Japan

Who's Looking at the Family?, curated by Carol Brown, Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, London, England

Photographer of the Year awarded by the Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA

Equal Rights and Justice, organized by the High Museum of Art in Conjunction with the National Black Arts Festival, Atlanta, GA

Fictions of the Self: The Portrait in Contemporary Photography, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC and Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and the Mainstream Criticism, curated by Charles Gaines. Traveled to: Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine; University of California, Davis; University of California, Riverside

States of Loss: Migration, Displacement, Colonialism, and Power, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ

There is a World Through Our Eyes: Expanding the Boundaries of Spirituality, Belief & Movement, Rockland Center for the Arts, Nyack NY

Contemporary Women Artists and the Issue of Identity. My/Self:Your/Other, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, NY

1920: The Subtlety of Subversion/The Continuity of Intervention, Exit Art/The First World, New York, NY

Image Makers, Nassau County Museum, Roslyn, NY

Enlightenment, Revolution, A Gallery Project, Ferndale, MI

Urban Masculinity, Longwood Arts Center, Bronx, NY

Perceptions and Visions of the African American Photographer, Rockland Community College, Nyack, NY

Personal Narratives, SECCA, Winston-Salem, NC

The Stationary Store, Renée Fatouhi Gallery, East Hampton, NY

Mis/Taken Identities, curated by Abigail Solomon-Godeau and Constance Lewallen, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara; traveled to: Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria; Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen im Forum Langenstraße, Germany; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA

Fictions of the Self: The Portrait in Contemporary Photography, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC

Photography: Expanding the Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Disclosing the Myth of Family, curated by Barbara Berber, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, IL

Present Tense, Fine Arts Center, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

Schwarze Kunst: Konzepte zur Politik und Identitat, curated by Frank Wagner, Neue Gesellschaft fur bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany

Awarded Louis Comfort Tiffany Award

Center Margins, Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center, SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY

Dirt and Domesticity: Constructions of the Feminine, Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, New York, NY

Origins and Evolutions, in association with the National Black Arts Festival, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA

Art, Politics and Community, curated by Don Desmett traveled to: William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Elkins Park, PA

Vote, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, NY, October 13-November 28th

Representatives: Women Photographers from the Permanent Collection, Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Behind the Scenes, television program for PBS in association with Learning Designs, New York, NY

Artists of Conscience: 16 Years of Social and Political Commentary, Alternative Museum, New York, NY

Through the Kitchen Door, curated by Irene Tsatsos, N.A.M.E., Chicago, IL

No Laughing Matter, curated by Nina Felshin; traveled to: University of North Texas, Denton, TX; Alberta College Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta; Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE; Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA

Center Margin, Group Exhibition, traveled to: Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA; SUNY at Fredonia, Fredonia, NY (1992)

Reframing the Family, Group Exhibition, Artists Space, New York, NY

Carrie Mae Weems and Jeffrey Hoone, Two Person Exhibition, Camerawork, London, England

Currents, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Of Light and Language, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA

Sexuality, Image and Control, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX

The Art of Advocacy, curated by Ellen O'Donnell Rankin, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT

Disputed Identities, traveled to: Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, BC and California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA

Affirmative Re-Actions, curated by Ellen Lawrence, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA

Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, curated by Peter Galassi, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, traveling to: Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH

Outspoken Women, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN

1992: Conquests Do Not Belong Only to the Past, Intar Gallery, New York, NY

At The End of the Day, Randy Alexander, New York, NY

Black Women Photographers, Ten-8, London, England

Other Voices, University Art Museum, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, IL

Who Counts?, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL

Biological Factors, Nexus Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Trouble in Paradise, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston, MA

Signs of Self: Changing Perceptions, Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, NY

Recent Works, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY

Cultural Diversity, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

Cultural Diversity, School 33, Maryland

The Power of Words: An Aspect of Recent Documentary Photography ,P·P·O·W, New York, NY

Urban Home, Studio Museum, Harlem, New York, NY

Group Exhibition, Camera Work, San Francisco, CA

Spent: Currency, Security, and Art on Deposit, Marine Midland Bank in conjunction with The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY

Presumed Identities, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT

The Empire's New Clothes, Camerawork, London, England

Massachusetts Artists Fellowship, (finalist)

A Century of Protest, Traveling Group Exhibition, Williams College, Williamstown, MA

Black Women Photographers, LeMois de la Photo a Montreal, Montreal, Canada

Self Portrayals, Group Exhibition, University Art Museum, SUNY Binghampton, NY

Black Photographers Bear Witness: 100 Years of Social Protest, Traveling Exhibition

The Other, The Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX

Herstory: Black Women Photographers, Firehouse Gallery, Houston, TX

Prisoners of Image, 1800-1988, Alternative Museum, New York, NY

Visible Differences, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, CA

Documenta B, The Castle, Kassel, Germany

Edict and Episode: Image as Meaning, Installation Gallery, San Diego, CA

People Close Up, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Relations, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles, CA

America: Another Perspective, New York University, New York, NY

Social Concerns, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD

Past, Present, Future, The New Museum, New York, NY

Analysis and Passion: Photography Engages Social and Political Issues, Group Exhibition, Eye Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Four West Coast Photographers, Vanderbilt University Art Gallery, Nashville, TN

Multi-Cultural Focus, Barnsdall Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Women in Photography, Cityscape Photo Gallery, Pasadena, CA

Contemporary Black Photographers, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA

Women's Work, Los Angeles Women's Building, Los Angeles, CA

Black Artists in Los Angeles, Brockman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Awards and Residencies

Artist in Residence, The Record Shop:A Social Studies Project, Beacon Cultural Project, Beacon, NY

Commission for New Work, Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

Pollack Krasner Foundation grant in Photography (Pilot Program)

Artist in Residence, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA

Artist in Residence, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

Artist-in-Residence, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna, FL

The Alpert Award for Visual Arts

National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Grant

Artists in Residence, Art Institute of Chicago

Artists in Residence, Rhode Island School of Design

The Engelhard Grant

Artists in Residence, Light Work, Syracuse, NY

Massachusetts Artists Fellowship, (finalist)

Artist in Residence, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY

California Arts Council Grant

University of California Chancellor's Grant

University of California Fellowship Award

Los Angeles Women's Building Poster Award

Teaching Experience

Visiting Professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Visiting Professor, Williams College, Williamstown, MA

Assistant Professor, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

Visiting Professor, Hunter College, New York, NY

Assistant Professor, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA

Teaching Assistant, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Folklife Program-Festival at the Lake, Oakland, CA

Teacher, San Diego City College, San Diego, CA

Teaching Assistant, University of California, San Diego, CA

Professional Affiliations

Women In Photography International Board Member