Kara Walker
Kara Walker was born in Stockton, California, in 1969, and currently lives and works in New York, New York.
Recent major solo exhibitions include presentations at The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Camden Arts Centre, London, England; Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland; Fondazione Merz, Torino, Italy; Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio; Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Málaga, Spain; and Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium.
In 2007-08, she was the subject of the major retrospective "Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love" at several museums including the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California; and the Museum of Modern Art of Fort Worth, Texas.
Her work is in the collections of major museums including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Tate Modern, London; Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy, and Mudam, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.
Walker received the United States Artists Eileen Harris Norton Fellowship in 2008, the Deutsche Bank Prize in 2000 and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1997.