Kara WALKER
Kara Walker
"KKK: 'the Prescript of the Order of the Invisible Empire --
Its Peculiar Objects' listed under Moonlit skies by the
Grand Cyclops amid his hooded henchmen... a Negress,
deep in the Woods Beyond, overhears."
2001
Installation view
Cut paper
198 x 472 cm (78" x 186")
Unique
Kara Walker
"KKK: 'the Prescript of the Order of the Invisible Empire --
Its Peculiar Objects' listed under Moonlit skies by the
Grand Cyclops amid his hooded henchmen... a Negress,
deep in the Woods Beyond, overhears."
2001
Installation view, Detail
Cut paper
198 x 472 cm (78" x 186")
Unique
Born: 1969 in Stockton, California
Lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
2002
Kunstverein Hannover, Germany
2001
"Disturbing Allegories" Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, TN
"American Primitive" Brent Sikkema, New York, NY
2000
"Why I Like White Boys, an Illustrated Novel by Kara E. Walker, Negress" Centre
d'art Contemporain, Geneva
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
1999
"Kara Walker: No mere words can Adequately reflect [...]" California College of Arts
and Crafts institute, Oakland, CA
1998
Wooster Gardens/ Brent Sikkema, New York, NY
Vienna State Opera House, Vienna
"Kara Walker" The Forum, St. Louis, MO
"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 K.E.B. Walker, Colored" The Carpenter Center, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA
1997
"Presenting Negro Scenes [...]" The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago,
Chicago, IL
"Upon My Many Masters - An Outline" San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
San Francisco, CA
1996
Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
"From the Bowels to the Bosom" Wooster Gardens/ Brent Sikkema, New York, NY
1995
"Look Away! Look Away! Look Away!" Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies,
Annondale-on-Hudson, NY
"The High and Soft Laughter of Nigger Wenches at Night" Wooster Gardens/ Brent
Sikkema, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2001
"ARS 01" Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
"the americans. new art." Barbican Gallery, London
"Waterworks" Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skarhahm, Sweden
"Schatten Risse, Silhouetten und Cutouts" Kunstbau Lenbachhaus, Munich
2000
"Projects 70" The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
"Age of Influence: Reflections in the Mirror of American Culture" Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago
1999
"Carnegie international, CarnegieMuseum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
"Art-Worlds in Dialogue" Museum in Ludwig, Cologne
Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
1998
"Strange Days" Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
"Postcards From Black America" De Beyerd, Breda and The Frans Hals Museum,
Haarlem, NL
1997
"Whitney Binnial" Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"No place (like home)" Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1996
"No Doubt" Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
"Real" Bass Museum, Miami, FL
"New Histories" Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
"Body Language" Mills Gallery, Boston,MA
1995
"La Belle et la Bete" Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
"Now is the Time" Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
"Inaugural Show" Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY
1994
"An Historical Romance" Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
1993
"Rough Trade" Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
"Angry Love" Pavillon Exhibit., Arts Festival of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
1991
"Swan Song" Gallery 100, Atlanta, GA
