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 Walker, Kara Elizabeth Walker
- Ulan
- 500123343
Exhibitions
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215: Worlds to Come
Ongoing
MoMA
Collection gallery
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Studio Visit: Selected Gifts from Agnes Gund
Apr 29–Jul 22, 2018
MoMA
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Unfinished Conversations: New Work from the Collection
Mar 19–Jul 30, 2017
MoMA
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Scenes for a New Heritage: Contemporary Art from the Collection
Mar 8, 2015–Apr 11, 2016
MoMA
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Print/Out
Feb 19–May 14, 2012
MoMA
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Kara Walker has
22 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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Louise Bourgeois, Edward Ruscha, Andreas Slominski, Sam Taylor-Wood, Kara Walker, Various Artists 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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Maurizio Cattelan, Yayoi Kusama, Kara Walker, Dave Eggers, Various Artists 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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