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Amy Adler
Doug Aitken Nobuyoshi
Araki Thomas Demand
Jason Dodge Elmgreen
& Dragset Naoya Hatakeyama
Naoto Kawahara Yuki
Kimura Sean Landers
Daido Moriyama Kyoko
Murase Jorge Pardo Erik
Parker Jack Pierson
Dean Sameshima
Kara Walker |
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 |
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