Kara Walker
- Introduction
- Kara Elizabeth Walker (born November 26, 1969) is an American contemporary painter, silhouettist, print-maker, installation artist, and film-maker who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes. Walker lives in New York City and has taught extensively at Columbia University. She is serving a five-year term as Tepper Chair in Visual Arts at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. She was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018.
- Wikidata
- Q444277
- Introduction
- Known for her nearly life-sized silhouettes of stereotypical slave narratives that explore race relations and its history through jolting yet whimsical pictorial means; included in the 1997 Whitney Biennial.
- Nationalities
- American, African American
- Gender
- Female
- Roles
- Artist, Book Artist, Installation Artist, Silhouette Artist, Painter
- Names
- Kara Elizabeth Walker, Kara Walker
- Ulan
- 500123343
Exhibitions
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Studio Visit: Selected Gifts from Agnes Gund
April 29–
July 22, 2018 MoMA
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Unfinished Conversations: New Work from the Collection
March 19–
July 30, 2017 MoMA
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Scenes for a New Heritage: Contemporary Art from the Collection
March 8, 2015–
April 11, 2016 MoMA
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Print/Out
February 19–
May 14, 2012 MoMA
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Clifford Owens: Anthology
November 13, 2011–
May 7, 2012 MoMA PS1
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Kara Walker has 21 exhibitionsonline.
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Kara Walker Gone: An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred b'tween the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart 1994
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Kara Walker Untitled 1995
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Kara Walker Untitled 1996
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Kara Walker Untitled 1996
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Kara Walker Untitled 1996
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Kara Walker Untitled 1996
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Kara Walker Untitled 1996
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Kara Walker Untitled 1996
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Kara Walker Untitled 1996
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Kara Walker Untitled 1996
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Kara Walker Untitled 1996
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Kara Walker Untitled 1996
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Kara Walker Vanishing Act 1997
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Kara Walker Cotton 1997
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Kara Walker Untitled (John Brown) 1997
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Kara Walker L'l Patch of Woods 1997
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Kara Walker Freedom: A Fable 1997
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Kara Walker Canisters 1997
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Kara Walker African/American 1998
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Various Artists, Louise Bourgeois, Edward Ruscha, Andreas Slominski, Sam Taylor-Wood, Kara Walker Parkett no. 55 1999
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Kara Walker Untitled from the Museum in Progress project Safety Curtain published 1999
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Kara Walker Boo-Hoo (for Parkett no. 59) 2000
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Various Artists, Maurizio Cattelan, Yayoi Kusama, Kara Walker, Dave Eggers Parkett no. 59 2000
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Kara Walker Five Poems 2002
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Kara Walker Plate (page 8) from Five Poems 2002
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Kara Walker Plate (page 14) from Five Poems 2002
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Kara Walker Plate (page 18) from Five Poems 2002
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Kara Walker Plate (page 22) from Five Poems 2002
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Kara Walker Plate (page 26) from Five Poems 2002
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Kara Walker Search for Authenticity Sketched from Life at a South Carolina Slave Auction by Myself 2003
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Kara Walker Untitled 2003
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Kara Walker The Pullman Porter 2003
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Kara Walker Rebel Leader. Shadow puppet from Testimony: Narrative of a Negress Burdened by Good Intentions 2004
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Kara Walker Shadow puppet from Testimony: Narrative of a Negress Burdened by Good Intentions 2004
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Kara Walker Shadow puppet from Testimony: Narrative of a Negress Burdened by Good Intentions 2004
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Kara Walker Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) 2005
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Kara Walker Foote's Gun-Boats Ascending to Attack Fort Henry from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) 2005
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Kara Walker Banks's Army Leaving Simmsport from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) 2005
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Kara Walker An Army Train from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) 2005
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Kara Walker Exodus of Confederates from Atlanta from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) 2005
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Kara Walker Occupation of Alexandria from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) 2005
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Kara Walker Lost Mountain at Sunrise from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) 2005
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Kara Walker Pack-Mules in the Mountains from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) 2005
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Kara Walker Deadbrook After the Battle of Ezra's Church from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) 2005
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Kara Walker Alabama Loyalists Greeting the Federal Gun-Boats from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) 2005
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Kara Walker Signal Station, Summit of Maryland Heights from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) 2005
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Kara Walker Confederate Prisoners Being Conducted from Jonesborough to Atlanta from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) 2005
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Kara Walker Cotton Hoards in Southern Swamp from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) 2005
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Kara Walker Scene of McPherson's Death from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) 2005
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Kara Walker Crest of Pine Mountain, Where General Polk Fell from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) 2005
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Kara Walker Buzzard's Roost Pass from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) 2005
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Kara Walker 8 Possible Beginnings or: The Creation of African-America, a Moving Picture by Kara E. Walker 2005
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Kara Walker An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters 2010
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Kara Walker no world from An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters 2010
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Kara Walker beacon (after R.G.) from An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters 2010
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Kara Walker savant from An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters 2010
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Kara Walker the secret sharerer from An Upeopled Land in Uncharted Waters 2010
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Kara Walker buoy from An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters 2010
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Kara Walker dread from An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters 2010
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Kara Walker Porgy & Bess 2013
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Kara Walker Clara and baby (plate, facing page 14) from Porgy & Bess 2013
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Kara Walker Crapshooters (plate, facing page 22) from Porgy & Bess 2013
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Kara Walker Crown kills Robbins (plate, facing page 29) from Porgy & Bess 2013
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Kara Walker Porgy and moon (plate, facing page 38) from Porgy & Bess 2013
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Kara Walker Porgy and Bess embrace (plate, facing page 54) from Porgy & Bess 2013
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Kara Walker The dance (plate, facing page 61) from Porgy & Bess 2013
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Kara Walker Crown and Bess on the island (plate, facing page 63) from Porgy & Bess 2013
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Kara Walker Crown seduces Bess (plate, facing page 64) from Porgy & Bess 2013
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Kara Walker Bess, delirious, remembers (plate, facing page 66) from Porgy & Bess 2013
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Kara Walker Fisherman (plate, facing page 72) from Porgy & Bess 2013
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Kara Walker Clara, Bess, and baby (plate, facing page 87) from Porgy & Bess 2013
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Kara Walker Bess and baby (plate, facing page 87) from Porgy & Bess 2013
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Kara Walker Porgy kills Crown (plate, facing page 89) from Porgy & Bess 2013
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Kara Walker Porgy taken to jail (plate, facing page 93) from Porgy & Bess 2013
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Kara Walker Sporting Life and Bess (plate, facing page 94) from Porgy & Bess 2013
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Kara Walker Porgy, departing, remembers (plate, facing page 102) from Porgy & Bess 2013
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Kara Walker African Boy Attendant Curio with Molasses and Brown Sugar, from "The Marvelous Sugar Baby" Installation at the old Domino Sugar Factory Warehouse (Front Basket) 2014
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Kara Walker African Boy Attendant Curio with Molasses and Brown Sugar, from "The Marvelous Sugar Baby" Installation at the old Domino Sugar Factory Warehouse (Bananas) 2014
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Kara Walker African Boy Attendant Curio with Molasses and Brown Sugar, from "The Marvelous Sugar Baby" Installation at the old Domino Sugar Factory Warehouse. (Rear Basket), 2014
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Kara Walker Sugar Makes This World 2013–14
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Kara Walker 40 Acres of Mules 2015
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Kara Walker Christ's Entry into Journalism 2017
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