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Jean F., 2005


race and the landscape (collaboration with deirdre visser) (2005 - present)

other people's clothes (2005)

all the women in my family (2004)

1990-2004 (2004)

rhetoric (2001)

mother and daughter (2000)

pathology (1999)

searching for memories (1995)

self-portraits (1992 - 1997)

how to read character (1990-1991)

self-portraits (1986 - 1991)

self-portraits (before 1986)

All images © Carla Williams. All Rights Reserved.




publications

Brandes, Kerstin. "Re-Considering Saartjie Baartman: Configurations of the 'Hottentot Venus' in Contemporary Cultural Discourse, Politics, and Art," in Helene von Oldenburg and Andrea Sick, editors, Virtual Minds. Congress of Fictitious Figures. Bremen (thealit) 2004, 40­55. ISBN 3-930924-05-6

Brandes, Kerstin. "'What you lookn at' - Fotografie und die Spuren des Spiegel(n)s." in Susanne von Falkenhausen et al. (Eds.): Medien der Kunst. Geschlecht, Metapher, Code. Marburg (Jonas) 2004, 148-163. ISBN 3-89445-337-0

Charles Guice. "Reflections in Black," B&W Magazine 28 (December 2003), 54-65.

Janell Hobson. "The 'Batty' Politic: Toward an Aesthetic of the Black Female Body," Hypatia 18:4 (October 2003).

Lisa Gail Collins.The Art of History: African American Women Artists Engage the Past, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2002.

Reflections in Black cover  Deborah Willis. Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2000.

Anthologie de la Photographie africaine  Anthologie de la Photographie africaine et de l'Océan Indien XIXe & XXe siècles, Editions Revue Noire, 1998. Winner, Nadar Prize, 1998.

New Yorker cover  The New Yorker, Winter Fiction Issue, December 28, 1998 and January 4, 1999.

Chicago Art Journal, Spring 1998  "Historic Retrievals: Confronting Visual Evidence and the Documentation of Truth," Lisa Gail Collins, Chicago Art Journal, volume 8, number 1, Spring 1998.

Our Grandmothers cover  Our Grandmothers: Loving Portraits by 74 Granddaughters, Linda Sunshine, ed., New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, Spring 1998.

Contact Sheet 94  Contact Sheet 94, Light Work, Syracuse, New York. 1998.

25 and Under cover  25 and Under/Photographers, edited by Alice Rose George, The Center for Documentary Studies and W.W. Norton & Co.: New York, 1996. Golden Light Award Book of Merit, Maine Photographic Workshops, 1996.

Reframings cover  Reframings: New American Feminist Photographies, edited by Diane Neumaier, Temple University Press: Philadelphia, 1996.




exhibitions

"Double Exposure: African Americans Before and Behind the Camera," Museum of the African Diaspora 06.19 - 09.28.2008

"Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body," Hood Museum of Art 04.01 - 08.10.2008

"Land Rits: Land at the Confluence of Human Cultures," Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University 02.18 - 04.05.2008

"Image and Identity," Southeast Museum of Photography 03.01 - 05.23.2008

"Blacks In and Out of the Box," California African American Museum 09.13 - 12.30.2007

"Double Exposure: African Americans Before and Behind the Camera," Wadsworth Atheneum 01.14 - 06.19.2006

"Here and Now," de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University 05 - 07 2005

"Subject to Oneself:" A Group Exhibition of Self-Portraiture, Playspace, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, 21 September 21 - 7 October 2004

"99 Square Pegs," Ladyfest*East digital slide show, New York, 2 June 2004

"The African Effect: Kara Walker and Carla Williams," Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico 26 March–23 April 2004

"Disclosures," Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan February 15 - March 16, 2001

Brochure cover  "Precedence: Emmet Gowin and His Students," Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, School of Art & Design, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, 6 - 30 September 2000

Reflections in Black invitation  "Reflections in Black: A History Deconstructed" (Part 3) (Click on announcement for venues and dates)

Past, Present, Future announcement  "Past, Present, Future," The College of Santa Fe Fine Arts Gallery, 28 January - 18 February 2000

Treatment Exhibition card "Treatment: Women's Bodies in Medical Science and Art," Dinnerware Gallery Tucson, Arizona March-April 1999

"The Human Figure In Photography," Graff Fine Arts Center Gallery, Dixie College St. George, Utah 1998

National Black Arts Festival 1998 catalogue
National Juried and Invitational Exhibition, National Black Arts Festival, Georgia State University Art Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, 1998

"25 and Under," traveling exhibition organized by the Center for Documentary Studies and Doubletake Magazine
                  Washington State University Richland, Washington 1998
                  Duke University Durham, North Carolina 1997
                  Parsons School of Design New York, New York 1996-1997

"Alternatives '98," guest curator Clarissa Sligh, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio February 1998

Arts Festival of Atlanta 1995 catalogue "Searching for Memories: Black Women and the 1895 Atlanta Exposition," a collaborative installation with Clarissa Sligh, Carla Williams, and Deborah Willis, in "Messages from the Everyday World: The Bathhouse Exhibition," Arts Festival of Atlanta Atlanta, Georgia September 1995

"African American Women Photographers," Salena Gallery, Long Island University Brooklyn, New York January - February 1993

exhibition announcement "Of Pride and Pain: Photographs by Christian Walker, Deborah Willis, and Carla Williams," The Light Factory Charlotte, North Carolina November 1992 - January 1993

LACPS announcement "LACPS Annual Exhibition," Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies at USC Lindhurst Gallery Los Angeles, California June - July 1992

"Contemporary Women Photographers," University Art Museum, University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico 1991

How To Read Character announcement "How To Read Character," The Teaching Gallery, University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico January 1991

National Exposures 90 catalogue "National Exposures 90," Sawtooth Building Galleries Winston-Salem, North Carolina September - October 1990

National Aperture 3 catalogue "National Aperture 3," Sawtooth Building Galleries Winston-Salem, North Carolina March - April 1988 winner of Canon Excellence Award





collections

University Art Museum, University of New Mexico at Albuquerque

The Art Museum , Princeton University

Light Work, Syracuse, New York