Walker, Kara

Kara Walker
Kara Walker
	English Kara walker
Birth name
Date of Birth	November 26, 1969 (49 years old)
Place of Birth	Stockton (California)
Citizenship	USA
Genre	graphics , collage , video
Study	; ;
Awards	MacArthur Scholarship (1997)
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Kara Walker ( born Kara Walker ; born November 26, 1969 , Stockton , USA ) is an American artist. He is a professor at Columbia University and also teaches at the Rutgers University, a member of the American Philosophical Society (2018) ^[1] .

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Biography

When she turned 13, her father, artist Larry Walker, got a job at Georgia State University and the family moved to Stone Mountain, a suburb of Atlanta. Focusing on painting and graphics, Walker was educated at Atlanta College of Art (1991) and the Rhode Island School of Design (1994). In 1997, she participated in the Whitney Biennale (New York) and in the same year, at the age of 27, became the youngest winner of the prestigious MacArthur Foundation grant, which provoked a public discussion around her work. In 2002, she was elected to represent the United States at the Biennale in Sao Paulo in Brazil. In 2007, Walker Art Center organized the exhibition “Kara Walker: My Complement, My Oppressor, My Enemy, My Love”, which became the first large-scale museum exhibition of the artist in the United States. Walker lives in New York and is a professor of visual arts at Columbia University . Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2012).

Creativity

Kara Walker is interested in the dark side of American culture associated with racism and a passion for violence. She is known primarily for her large wall compositions based on silhouette images . They often touch upon sensitive topics such as power, repression, sexuality, racial and gender discrimination .

Personal exhibitions

2009 Estampes, Galerie Lelong
2008 Annotating History , Pomona College Museum of Art, Clermont
2008 My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love , Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2007 Bureau of Refugees, Freeman and Abandoned Lands-Records, Miscellaneous Papers National Archives M809 Roll 23 , Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
2007 My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love , Walker Art Center, Minneapolis ; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris ; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2007 Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (link not available) , Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover
2006 Kara Walker at the Met: After the Deluge , Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York
2006 Kara Walker Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
2005 Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2005 Testimony , Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
2005 Song of the South, REDCAT, Los Angeles
2005 Event Horizon, New School University, Arnhold Hall, New York
2005 Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City
2004 Grub for Sharks: A Concession to the Negro Populace, Tate Liverpool, Project Space, Liverpool
2004 Fibbergibbet and Mumbo Jumbo: Kara E. Walker in Two Acts, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
2004 Galerie Lelong, Paris
2003 Centro Nazionale per le Arti Contemporanee, Rome
2003 Excavated from the Black Heart of a Negress, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
2003 Drawings , Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
2003 Narratives of a Negress, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown
2002 An Abbreviated Emancipation, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
2002 Kara Walker, Slavery !, Slavery !, 25th Biennale in Sao Paulo; Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim; Museum Weserburg , Bremen; Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin ; Museumquartier, Vienna Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnheim
2002 For the Benefit of All the Races of Mankind: An Exhibition of Artifacts, Remnants and Effluvi EXCAVATED from the Black Heart of a Negress, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover
2002 Nat Turner's Revelation: An Important Lesson from our Negro Past You will Likely Forget to Remember, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

2001 American Primitive, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
2001 Disturbing Allegories, Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville
2001 The Emancipation Approximation, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2000 Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines
1999 Why I Like White Boys: An illustrated Novel by Kara E. Walker Negress, MAMCO - Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva
1999 The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas
1999 Another Fine Mess, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
1999 African't, Galleri Index, Stockholm
1999 No No Words can adequately reflect the Remorse this negress Feels at having been cast into such a lowly State by her former Masters and so it is with a humble Heart that she brings about their physical Ruin and earthly Demise, CCAC - California College for the Arts, Oakland; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
1998 Presenting Negro Scenes Drawn Upon My Passage Through the South and Reconfigured for the Benefit of Enlightened Audiences Wherever Such May Be Found, By Myself, Missus KEB Walker, Colored, The Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge
1998 Prints, The Print Center, Philadelphia
1998 Opera Safety Curtain for 1998-99 Season, Vienna State Opera House, Vienna, Brent Sikkema / Wooster Gardens, New York, The Forum, St. Louis
1997 Upon My Many Masters: An Outline, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
1997 Presenting Negro Scenes Drawn Upon My Passage Through the South and Reconfigured for the Benefit of Enlightened Audiences Wherever Such May Be Found, By Myself, Missus KEB Walker, Colored, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago; The Contemporary Arts Center; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Huntington Beach Arts Center, Huntington Beach
1996 From the Bowels to the Bosom, Brent Sikkema / Wooster Gardens, New York
1996 Ol 'Marster Paintin's and Silhouette Cuttings, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston
1995 The High and Soft Laughter of the Nigger Wenches At Night, Brent Sikkema / Wooster Gardens, New York
1995 The Battle of Atlanta: Being the Narrative of a Negress in the Flames of Desire - A Reconstruction, Nexus Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta
1995 Look Away! Look Away! Look Away !, Center For Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson

Awards, grants

United States Artists Eileen Harris Norton Fellowship, 2008
The Lucelia Artist Award, The Smithsonian American Art Museum 2004
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Art Matters, Inc. Individual Artist's Fellowship
Awards of Excellence II, Rhode Island School of Design
Awards of Excellence I, Rhode Island School of Design
Ida Blank Ocko Scholarship, Atlanta College of Art
Presidential Scholar, Atlanta College of Art

Public Collections

Art Gallery of South Australia
The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
The Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Centro Nazionale per le Arti Contemporanee, Rome, Italy
The Contemporary Museum, Honalulu, Hawaii
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
DESTE Foundation, Athens, Greece
Museum voor Modern Kunst, The Netherlands

Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
Foundation Museé d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Guggenheim Museum, NY
Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Musee d'Art Moderne, Luxembourg
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Princeton University Art Museum
The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL
The Judith Rothschild Foundation
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
The Tate Gallery, London, UK
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Williams College Museum of Art, MA

Notes

↑ Election of New Members at the 2018 Spring Meeting | American philosophical society

Links

[1] Election of New Members at the 2018 Spring Meeting | American philosophical society