Kara Walker

ARTIST: Kara Walker

DOB/PLACE: 1969, Stockton, California

RESIDENCE: NYC

EDUCATION: BFA, Atlanta College of Art,1991 MFA, Rhode Island School of Design, 1994

EMPLOYMENT: Columbia University, Professor of Visual Arts

MAJOR SHOWS/GALLERIES/COMMISSIONS: Exhibits at: MOMA, SFMOMA, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. A 1997 recipient of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Achievement Award, 2002-the United States representative to the São Paolo Bienal in Brazil. 2007-Time’s 100 most Influential People (Artists/Entertainers) amongst others.

MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: Most famously, Cut Paper (silhouettes). She has also used other media such as: drawing, painting, colored light projections, shadow puppetry and film animation.

CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION: Kara uses an old fashioned, genteel form of art to depict her concerns about sexuality, violence and subjugation.

SUBJECT MATTER/THEMES/CONCEPTS DEALT WITH: SlaveryIntegration...historical & personal. She moved to Atlanta from California when quite young and had to deal with a community not fully integrated.

LINKS FOR FURTHER STUDY:

http://learn.walkerart.org/karawalker/Main/Biography

http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/w/kara_walker/index.html

http://www.npr.org/blogs/newsandviews/2008/03/kara_walkers_art_shocks_subver_1.html

http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/walker/

http://www.gregkucera.com/walker.htm

Two Excellent articles--very complete about Kara’s Art and subject matter.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/12/arts/design/12walk.html?ref=karawalker

http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/w/kara_walker/index.html

researched by Janet Weyenberg