Bio
American, born 1969. Lives and works in New York City.
Kara Walker was born in Stockton, California. Walker received her B.F.A from Atlanta College of Art, and her M.F.A in painting/printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design. Her numerous solo exhibitions include, recently, Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs (2003); Kara Walker, Slavery!, Slavery!, 25th International Bienal of Sao Paolo, Brazil (2002); Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2002); and American Primitive, Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York (2001). Recent participation in group exhibitions includes Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (2003); Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain: Selected Works from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago ( 2002-2003); Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, MoMA QNS, New York (2003); Telling Tales: Narrative Impulses in Recent Art, Tate Liverpool, U.K. (2002); and Form Follows Fiction, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy (2002).