Kara Walker

Kara Walker (American, born 1969)

After earning an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (1994), California native Kara Walker gained acclaim using large-scale, cut out silhouettes to explore themes of race, sex, and violence. Depicting figures in antebellum dress and drawing from romanticized ideas of the American South, Walker explores the complicated way cultures collide in the United States. The youngest person ever awarded the MacArthur Foundation grant (1997), Walker is currently a Professor of Art at Columbia University.

Important Source Material:

“Kara Walker.” www.oxfordartonline.com Accessed 25 June 2013.

Gilman, Sander and Thomas McEvilley, et al. Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center. 2007. Exhibition Catalog.

Obrist, Hans Ulrich, “All Cut From Black Paper,” in ArtNode, accessed on 6 April 2005.

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