short biography

Kara Walker (b. 1969, Stockton / CA) is an African American artist, who makes cut-paper silhouettes and light and shadow projections, in which she presents scenes of the racist stereotypes, and the brutality of slavery. She studied at Rhode Island School of Design and at Atlanta College of Art and was a Professor of the Columbia University. She lives and works in New York.

Drawings, objects, installations, light and shadow projections, scissors cuts

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collection/s

Asheville Art Museum BRONX MUSEUM Burger Collection, Berlin CCS BARD Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson Colby Museum of Art, Waterville Deste Foundation Ellipse Foundation Art Centre, Alcoitao Fleming Museum, Burlington Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Honolulu Museum of Art Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art MAXXI Rome MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago MOMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York MUDAM Musée d´Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburg RUBELL MUSEUM Miami Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside Tate Collection The Art Institute Chicago The Baltimore Museum of Art ° The Broad, Los Angeles The Progressive Art Collection, Mayfield Village The Vera List Center / The New School UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor University Art Museum, Albany Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Whitney Museum, New York
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galleries

white8 STUDIO, Wien Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston galerie de multiples Paris Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle Sikkema Jenkins & Co. New York Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo °
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group exhibition

On Stage. Kunst als Bühne

15. Mar 2023 14. Jan 2024
MUMOK Wien
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group exhibition

Unparalleled Journey through Contemporary Art of Past 50 Years

opening: 04. Dec 2019
04. Dec 2019 ∞
RUBELL MUSEUM Miami
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  • 20. Oct 06. Jan 2019
    When and Where I Enter The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs