| BIOGRAPHY Born November 26, 1969 in Stockton, CA Lives and works in New York EDUCATION M.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design, June, 1994 Painting/Printmaking. B.F.A., Atlanta College of Art, May, 1991 Painting/Printmaking. |
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| 2008 | Freedom: American Sculpture, The Hague Sculpture 2008, The Hague, The Hague, The Netherlands, June 6- August 31 The Black Road, CAC Málaga, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Spain, June 2008 Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, November 2008 Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, February 17 - May 13, 2007; ARC/ Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, France, June 20 - September 9, 2007, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, November 11, 2007 - February 3, 2008; Hammer Museum, February 17 - May 11, 2008. |
| 2007 | Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands- Records, “Miscellaneous Papers” National Archives M809 Roll 23 Search for ideas supporting the Black Man as a work of Modern Art / Contemporary Painting; a death without end, and an appreciation of the Creative Spirit of Lynch Mobs- New work, Kara Walker, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, October 20 – November 21, 2007 Kara Walker: Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, January 26 - March 18, 2007. |
| 2006-2007 | Voodoo Macbeth, De la Warr Pavilion, 10/7/06 - 1/7/07 C'era una volta un re. La fiaba contemporanea, Arcos, Benevento, Italy, 10/15/06 - 1/20/07 |
| 2006 | Kara Walker, Sikkema Jenkins & Co. New York, NY, March 4 - April 1, 2006. Kara Walker at the Met: After the Deluge, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, March 21 - August 6, 2006. |
| 2005 | Song of the South, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA , September 2- October 23 Event Horizon, special project for New School University, Arnhold Hall, New York, NY Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico, April 6- July 3, 2005 |
| 2004 | Grub for Sharks: A Concession to the Negro Populace, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, U.K. May 1- October 31 Fibbergibbet and Mumbo Jumbo: Kara E. Walker in Two Acts, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia PA, March 27- August 14 |
| 2003 | Centro Nazionale per le Arti Contemporanee, Rome Italy, December 4, 2003- February 1, 2004 Excavated from the Black Heart of a Negress, The Studio Museum in Harlem, July 16- September 28 Drawings, Brent Sikkema, New York, NY, June 4-July 25 Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, January 18-June 1, Williams College Art Museum, Williamstown MA, August 30- December 7. |
| 2002 | Kara Walker: An Abbreviated Emancipation, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, March 9 - May 26 Kara Walker, Slavery!, Slavery!, 25th International Bienal of Sao Paolo, Brazil, March 23 - June 2 Kara Walker, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim, Germany, January 20 - February 24, Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany, March 11 - April 11, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany, May 18 - July 7, Museumquartier, Vienna, Austria, August 31 - October 27, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnheim, The Netherlands, November 15 - December 31. For the Benefit of All the Races of Mankind (Mos' Specially the Master One, Boss). An Exhibition of Artifacts, Remnants and Effluvia EXCAVATED from the Black Heart of a Negress, Hannover Kunstverein, Hannover, Germany, June 9 - August 8 Nat Turner's Revelation (an Important Lesson from our Negro Past You will Likely Forget to Remember), Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, September 6- October 26 |
| 2001 | American Primitive, Brent Sikkema Gallery, NYC, September 8 - October 13 Disturbing Allegories, Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, TN, February 8 - March 22 The Emancipation Approximation, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel |
| 2000 | Kara Walker, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, September 15 - November 26 |
| 1999 | Why I Like White Boys, an Illustrated Novel by Kara E. Walker Negress, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland Kara Walker, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas, January 9 - February 14. Another Fine Mess, Brent Sikkema, NY, March 13 - April 17. African't, Galleri Index, Stockholm, Sweden, April 24 - June 6. Kara Walker: No mere words can Adequately reflect the Remorse this Negress feels at having been Cast into such a lowly state by her former Masters and so it is with a Humble heart that she brings about their physical Ruin and earthly Demise, CCAC Institute, Oakland/San Francisco, CA April 2 - May 15 / UCLA Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA, September 22 - January 2, 2000. |
| 1998 | 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, March 5 - April 2. Kara Walker: Prints, The Print Center, Philadelphia, January 16 - February 21. Opera Safety Curtain for 1998-99 Season, Vienna State Opera House, Vienna, Austria. Kara Walker, Wooster Gardens/Brent Sikkema, New York, NY, October 22 - November 28. Kara Walker, The Forum. St. Louis, MO, March 27 - May 16. |
| 1997 | Upon My Many Masters - An Outline, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, February 14 - May 13. 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 Renaissance Society, The University of Chicago, January 12 - February 23. The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, June 21 - August 31, The Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, September 12 - November 30. Kara Walker, Huntington Beach Arts Center, Huntington Beach, CA, September 12 - November 30. |
| 1996 | From the Bowels to the Bosom, Wooster Gardens/Brent Sikkema, New York, NY, March 1 - April 13. Ol' Marster Paintin's and Silhouette Cuttings, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, Mass., February 2 -March 2. |
| 1995 | The High and Soft Laughter of the Nigger Wenches At Night, Wooster Gardens/Brent Sikkema, New York, NY, April 6 - May 6. The Battle of Atlanta: Being the Narrative of a Negress in the Flames of Desire - A Reconstruction, Nexus Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, May 19 - June 24. Look Away! Look Away! Look Away!, Center For Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, September 23 - October 22. |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2008-09 | Pandora's Box, Dunlop Art Gallery, Saskatchewan, Canada, May 16- July 20, 2008; travels to Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener Ontario, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa Ontario, Kamloops Art Gallery BC, Kamloops BC, Winnipeg Art Gallery, MB, Winnipeg MB Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, April 1- August 10, 2008; Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, September 10- December 10, 2008; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, January 31- April 26, 2009 The Old Weird America: Folk Themes in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston TX, May 10- July 20, travels to: Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, MN, August 23 2008- January 4 2009 |
| 2008 | Kara Walker /Kris Martin, MDD - Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium, October 5- November 30, 2008 Babel Festival, September 18- 21 Las Vegas Collects Contemporary, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas NV May 23-Oct 26 Förlust/Loss, WANÅS Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden. May 18- October 19 The Puppet Show, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Jan 18- Mar 30 |
| 2007-08 | Geopolitics of the Animation, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, September 27 – December 9 2007, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, February 29- June 1, 2008 |
| 2007 | Contemporary, Cool and Collected, The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, October 20- December 30 Women’s Work: Contemporary Women Printmakers from the Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, October 27 2007- January 20, 2008 Don't Look: Contemporary Drawings from an Alumna's Collection (Martina Yamin, class of 1958) Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley MA. Domestic Departures, Cal State Fullerton Grand Central Art Center, Fullerton CA, October 27- December Taking Aim: Selections from the Elliot L. Perry Collection, RClough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis TN. September 7- October 11 New Images of Identity, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, September 23- November 18 Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image since 1970, The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA, Sept 14- Dec 8, 2007, Jan 24- May 24, 2008. The Feminine Mysterious, Red Dot Contemporary, West Palm Beach, FL, February 17-March 17 Haunted Screens, UB Art Gallery, Center for the Arts, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, March 29-May 19 Momentary Momentum: Animated Drawings, Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, UK 52nd International Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy Repicturing the Past, Picturing the Present, Museum of Modern Art, New York, June 13- November 5th, 2007 Global Feminisms, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Contemporary Art at The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, March 23- July 1; Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, September 12- December 9 Shahzia Sikander, Kara Walker, Fundacion ICO, Madrid, January 18 - March 18, 2007 Take 2: Women Revisiting Art History, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA, January 17- March 15 |
| 2006-07 | Into Me / Out of Me, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany, November 26, 2006 - January 28, 2007. Meditations in an Emergency, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI, October 28, 2006 - April 29, 2007. Once upon a Time: The Contemporary Fable, Arcos, Museo d'arte Contemporanea, Sannio Campania, October 15, 2006- February 28, 2007 The Bong Show or This Is Not a Pipe, curated by Beverly Semmes, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY, December 9 2006- January 20-2007 Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery, The New York Historical Society, NY, NY, June 16, 2006- January 7, 2007. |
| 2006 | All the Best: The Deutsche Bank Collection and Zaha Hadid, The Singapore Art Museum, September 1 - November 20, 2006. Voodoo Macbeth, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, England, October 7, 2006 - January 7, 2007. New York, New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Cinema, Performance, Photography, and Video, Grimaldi Forum Monaco, Monte Carlo, July 14 - September 10. Black Alphabet: Contexts of Contemporary African American Art, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland, September 23 - November 19. Fables, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. September 9- December 17 Liquid Paper, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA, June 30- August 6 Surprise! Surprise! ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London, U.K. August 2- September 10, 2006 Into Me/Out of Me, PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, MOMA Affiliate, Long Island City, New York Rethinking Nordic Colonialism, A Postcolonial Exhibition Project in Five Acts, Act 1: Reykjavik, Iceland, March 24 - April 16, 2006, Act 2: Nuuk, Greenland, April 21 - May 14, 2006, Act 3: Tórshavn, The Faroe Islands, May 12 - June 4, 2006, Act 4: Rovaniemi, Sápmi/Finland, June 16 - July 9, 2006, Act 5: DVD Box Set Launch in Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo & Stockholm, November 25, 2006, Curated by Kuratorisk Aktion (Frederikke Hansen & Tone Olaf Nielsen) for NIFCA, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art Down By Law, a Wrong Gallery project for the 2006 Whitney Biennial: Day for Night, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, January 21- May 21, 2006 Dark, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, curated by Jan Grosfeld and Rein Wolfs, February 18- April 17 Blind Date: New Acquisitions of the Deutsche Bank Collection, Prelate's residence of the former Benedictine Monastary and Galerie Kunstforum, Altes Haus. Seligenstadt, Germany, May 14- July 2 Skowhegan 60 Years: School of Painting and Sculpture, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME, July 22- October 29 |
| 2005 | Drawing from The Modern, 1975-2005, Curated by Jordan Kantor, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, September 14- January 9, 2005 Trials and Terrors, Curated by Dominic Molon, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, July 23- September 25, 2005 The World is a Stage, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, March 26-June 18, 2005 The Shadow, Vestsjaellands Kunstmuseum, Sore, Denmark, May 28- September 4 Works on Paper, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany, May 6- June 25, 2005 Getting Emotional, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, May 18- September 5, 2005 Kiss the Frog! The Art of Transformation, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway, May 28- September 18, 2005 Identita & Nomadismo, Palazzo Delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Sienna, May 27- September 2005 Fairy Tales Forever: International Homage to H.C. Andersen, AROS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Copenhagen, Denmark The World is a Stage, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, March 26-June 18, 2005 |
| 2004-2005 | Site Santa Fe's Fifth International Biennial, Curated by Robert Storr, Santa Fe, NM, July 16- January 9, 2005 "Monument to Now, The Dakis Joannou Collection," The DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece |
| 2004 | Women Artists of the 20th Century, Sweet Briar College, Anne Gary Pannell Art Gallery Collection. September 4- December 17 Artes Mundi Exhibition: Wales International Visual Art Prize, National Museum, Cardiff, Wales. Dana Schutz, Amy Sillman, Kara Walker, Brent Sikkema, NYC, September 7- October 2 Provocations: Selections from the Permanent Collection, The Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY, July 22- December 31 Nous Venons en Paix..., Curated by Pierre Landry, Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Canada, May 28- September 5 Initial Encounters, organized by The Drawing Center, New York, NY, at The Arts Center of The Capital Region, Troy, NY March 12-June 6 |
| 2003 | Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, January 18- March 21; New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans LA, April 11-June 15; University of North Texas, Denton TX, August 25- October 18, Armory Center for the Arts, Old Pasadena, CA, June 17- August 15, 2004 Whiteness, A Wayward Construction, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, March 23- July 6 Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, curated by Trevor Schoonmaker, The New Museum, New York, NY, Traveled to: The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnatti, OH, The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, Barbican Centre, London, U.K. |
| 2002-2003 | Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain: Selected Works from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, November 16, 2002- April 20, 2003 Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, MoMA QNS, New York, October 17, 2002- January 6, 2003 |
| 2002 | Tempo, MoMAQNS, New York, June 29-September 9, 2002 Telling Tales: Narrative Impulses in Recent Art, Tate Liverpool, U.K., December 8, 2001- August 11, 2002 Big and Beautiful, H&R Block ArtSpace at the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, September 7- October 16, 2002 Parallels and Intersections: Art/Women/California, 1950-2000, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. June 27, 2002- January 12, 2003 |
| 2001 | Form Follows Fiction, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy, October 17- January 27, 2002 Six Contemporary Artists, The Clifford Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, October 15- November 16 The Americans, Barbican Art Galleries, Barbican Centre, London, UK New to the Modern: Recent Acquisitions from the Department of Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 25 October 2001 - 8 January 2002 The Print World, Ljubljana Biennial 2001, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 10 June - 16 September W, Musée des Beaux - Arts, Cole, France, June 22 Parkett Collaborations & Editions Since 1984, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY April 5 - June 12 New Settlements, Nikolaj Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Sweden, 24 March - 6 May Secret Victorians, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA Locating Drawing, Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX SchattenRisse, Silhouetten und Cutouts, Kunstbau Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany Ornament and Abstraction, The Foundation Beyler, Basel, Switzerland Waterworks, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn, Sweden |
| 2000 | Blurry Lines, John Michael Kholer Arts Center, Sherboyan, WI Das Gedäschtnis der Kunst: History and Memory in Contemporary Art, Historic Museum of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany The Power of Narration, Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castello, Spain Point of Reference, Frederick Hayes, Glenn Ligon, Gary Simmons, Kara Walker, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, September 5 - December 17, 2000. Drawing on the Figure: Works on Paper of the 1990s from the Manilow Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, March 18 - June 25, 2000. Strength and Diversity: A Celebration of African-American Artists, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, April 6 - May 5. Age of Influence: Reflections in the Mirror of American Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, April 8 - June 4. This is Not the Place, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, NJ, April 12 - May 5. 00, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, July 6 - Aug 30. |
| 1999 | Istanbul Biennial: The Passion and the Wave, Istanbul, Turkey, September 17 - October 30. Looking Forward, Looking Black, Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. Re/Righting History; Counternarratives by Contemporary African-American Artists, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, March 14 - May 16. Other Narratives, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, May 14-July 4. Art-Worlds in Dialogue, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany, November 5 - March 19, 2000. Carnegie International 1999/2000, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, November 6 - March 26, 2000. Glenn Ligon & Kara Walker, Brent Sikkema, New York, NY, December 3 - January 8, 2000. Au-Delà, Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany, November 27 - February 13, 2000. |
| 1998 | Secret Victorians, Contemporary Artists and a 19th-Century Vision, Organized by the Hayward Gallery for The Arts Council of England. Firstsite, The Minories Art Gallery, Colchester, UK, October 17 - December 5, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK, December 12 - January 31, 1999, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK, February 10 - April 4, Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Middlesbrough, UK, May 1 - June 26, UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, September 20 - January 2, 2000. Global Vision, New Art from the 90's, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece Strange Days, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Postcards From Black America, De Beyerd, Breda and The Frans Hals Museum, Harlem, Netherlands Arturo Herrera and Kara Walker, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK Pierre Molinier, Kay Rosen, Kara Walker, Wooster Gardens/Brent Sikkema, New York, NY Kara Walker/Charles Gaines, The Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean, City College of New York, New York, NY |
| 1997 | 'Pagan' Stories: The Situations of Narrative in Recent Art, Apex Art, New York, NY Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY no place (like home), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Civil Progress: Life in Black America, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA The Gaze, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY |
| 1996 | Real, Bass Museum, Miami, FL New Histories, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA Conceal/Reveal, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM. No Doubt, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT Body Language, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA Gone With the Wind: The Fabrication and Denial of Southern Culture, The City Gallery, Atlanta, GA |
| 1995 | La Belle et La Bete, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France. Now is the Time, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY Landscapes, Borders, Boundaries, Nexus Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, GA Inaugural Show, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY Drawing Show, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA |
| 1994 | Selections 1994, The Drawing Center, New York, NY Summer Group Show +2, Stienbaum/Krauss Gallery, New York, NY An Historical Romance, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI |
| 1993 | 1993 Annual Invitational New Talent Exhibition, MU Gallery, Boston, MA Rough Trade, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI Angry Love, Pavilion Exhibit, Arts Festival of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA National Black Arts Festival/Emerging Artists, Arts Exchange, Atlanta, GA Into the Light, 1992 Nexus Biennale, Nexus Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, GA Black Women Artists, YMI Cultural Center, Asheville, NC |
| 1991 | Black Men: Image/Reality, New Visions Gallery, Atlanta, GA The Naked People Show, 800 East, Atlanta, GA Swan Song, Gallery 100, Atlanta, GA The Earth Factory Show, Hasting Seeds Building, Atlanta, GA Rated RX: Pathological Conditions, New Visions Gallery, Atlanta, GA One/Another, North Arts Center, Atlanta, GA |
| AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS United States Artists Eileen Harris Norton Fellowship, 2008 The Lucelia Artist Award, The Smithsonian American Art Museum 2004 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Art Matters, Inc. Individual Artist's Fellowship Awards of Excellence II, Rhode Island School of Design Awards of Excellence I, Rhode Island School of Design Ida Blank Ocko Scholarship, Atlanta College of Art Presidential Scholar, Atlanta College of Art |
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| 2008 | De Baets, Isabelle. "Kara Walker in Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens". H Art October 2008 Babel: Festival di letteratura e traduzione. "Kara Walker: 8 Possible Beginnings Or: The Creation of an African-American" September 2008 Elle Belgium. "Expo" Page 76 November 2008 The Bulletin. "Exhibitions" Page 16 October 2008 Kurzner, Lisa. "Black Women Remixed" Access Atlanta.com & The Atlanta Journal-Constitution October 2008 Artforum. "Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970" September 2008 Le Temps "Art Basel" June 2008 Knight, Christopher. "Walker's Rich Palette: Black and White" Los Angeles Times March 2008 George, Lynell "Artworks that Cut Deeply" Los Angeles Times March 2008 Enrique Juncosa, "Black Eyes" In Praise of Shadows Exhibition Catalogue, Irish Museum of Modern Art ISBN 978-88-8158-714-8 2008 BCAM/LACMA 2008 Exhibition Catalogue ISBN 978-0-87587-197-4 Page 147 Mantell, Eva. "Puppets, Mortality, Humor and Sufferning". April 2008. Press: Institute of Contemporary Art: UPenn Yablonsky, Linda. "Puppet Madness" Bloomberg.com February 2008 Wilson, Mary. " A Hand Up". Philidelphia citypaper. January 2008 Sozanksi, Edward J. "Noise and Carnival Format Detract from Good Work at ICA" Philidelphia Inquirer January 2008. Pages H1 + H6 ARTnews. National News: Award: "Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Opressor, My Love" March 2008 Robinson, Gayle, “Silhouette Show is headed to the Modern in July,” Star-Telegram, Weds, April 23, 2008 Frankel, Daniel. “Silhouettes of Shame,” UCLA Magazine, April 2008 Favre, Jeff. ‘Artist’s Silhouettes give shape to a wounded past,’ Ventura County Star, Thursday May 1, 2008 George, Lynell. “Shades of Black on the Silver Screen,” LA Times, March 27, 2008 Myers, Holly. ‘Kara Walker in Black and White,’ LA Weekly, March 21-27, 2008 Pincus, Robert L. ‘Inside the Wave’ and ‘Kara Walker’ are politically charged exhibitions, and each has its own twist, The San Diego Union-Tribune, March 23, 2008 The Black Road, c. CAC Málaga, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Spain, 2008 (Exhibition catalog) ISBN 978-84-96159-67-9 This is not to be looked at: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Contemporaray Art, Los Angeles, c. the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2008 ISBN: 978-1-933751-07-8 Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image since 1970, (exhibition catalog) c. 2008 The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA, ISBN 9780295988641 Golden, Thelma. 'Dialogue with Kara Walker (from Pictures from Another Time)' Arte y Parte, No, 75 Lewis, Richard. Lewis, Susan I., The Power of Art (2nd Ed) c. Thomson Wadsworth 2009 ISBN 13-978-0-534-64103-0 Britt, Douglas. 'CAMH exhibit relates skewed history,' Houston Chronicle, July 10, 2008 Klaasmeyer, Kelly. 'How Bizarre,' Houston Press, June 26- July 2, 2008 Gajkowski-Hill, Sarah. 'The Old Weird America,' Arts Houston, June 2008 Anderson, Virginia Billeaud. '"Old, Weird America" explores American Folklore,' Greater Houston Weekly, May 21, 2008 Schaffner, Ingrid. And Kuoni, Carin. The Puppet Show, c. Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania 2008, ISBN 978-0-88454113-4 (exhibition catalogue) Casadio, Mariuccia, 'Colorful,' Vogue Italia, July 2008 Arte y Parte, Revista de Arte, no. 75 Junio-Julio 2008, pp. 48-59 The New York Times, 'The Seasons' Friday June 20, 2008 p. A21 Storr, Robert. 'Art and Text,' Frieze, June-July-August 2008 p. 19 Dawson, Jessica, 'Standing in the Shadow of the Silhouette Figure,' The Washington Post, June 20, 2008 Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body (exhibition catalogue) c. Dartmouth College 2008 ISBN 978 0 295098770 5 Förlust/Loss, (exhibition catalogue) c. WANÅS Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden 2008 ISBN 978-91-973972-9-2 Hardy, Ernest. "My Negress, My Conundrum, My Enigma." Flaunt, Issue 92 p. 96 Powerhouse Magazine, Issue 4, 'Gotta Have It,' ISBN 978-1-57687-433-2 The Old Weird America: Folk Themes in Contemporary Art, (exhibition catalog) c. Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston TX 2008 ISBN 978-1-933619-12-5. Essays by Toby Kamps, Michael Duncan, Colleen Sheehy Stations, 100 Meisterwerke Zeitgenossischer Kunst, c. Monopol, Dumont. 2008 ISBN 978-3-8321-9059-0 Earle, Susan. "Aaron Douglas, African American Modernist." C. Spencer Museum of Art 2007, University of Kansas, Lawrence. ISBN 9780300121803 Le Mieux-Ruibal, Bruno. 'Puppet Master of Race' Lapiz 239 Revista Internacional de Arte, March. Heartney, Eleanor. “Art & Today,” Phaidon press 2008 ISBN: 9780714845142 George, Lynell. "Kara Walker: Art that cuts deeply,”" LA Times, March 9 Knight, Christopher. "Kara Walker finds the grey with black and white," LA Times, March 5 Kley, Elisabeth, 'Kara Walker/Whitney Museum,' Art News, February 2008, p. 117 Robinson, Betsy. "Kara Walker: Staring down the Shadow," Spirituality & Health, Jan-Feb 2008 Hoffus, Stephen G., and Mack, Angela D., "Landscape of Slavery," c. 2008 Carolina Art Association. ISBN 978-1-57003-7191 |
| 2007 | Schwabsky, Barry. ‘Love by a Thousand Cuts,’ The Nation, December 10, 2007 Lacayo, Richard, ‘Top 10 Museum Exhibits,’ Time, December 3, 2007 Genocchio, Benjamin “ART: Museums Unveil Treasures From Masters Old and New,” The New York Times, September 9, 2007 Ouroussoff, Nicolai “Art: The Week Ahead,” The New York Times, October 7, 2007 Cox, Lorraine. "A Performative Turn: Kara Walker’s Song of the South (2005)," Women and Performance: a journal of feminist theory, Vol. 17. No. 1, March 2007, pp 59-97. English, Darby. "How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness," MIT Press 2007 ISBN 978-0-262-05083-8 Stallings, Tyler and Jones, Amelia. Domestic Departures, (Exhibition catalog) c. California State Fullerton Grand Central Art Center, Fullerton CA, ISBN 978-0-935314-97-71SB "Geopolitics of the Animation," (Exhibtion catalog) c. Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, 2007, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo Artco issue no.82, November 2007 Eshun, Ekow. Vogue, "Art of Darkness," December "Contemporary, Cool and Collected," c. The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina 2007 ISBN 978-0-9762300-3-8 Robinson, Betsy. “Kara Walker: Staring down the Shadow,” Spirituality & Health, Jan-Feb 2008 Rosenberg, Karen. “Darkness and Light,” New York Magazine, September 3-10, 2007 p. 112-13 Kurzner, Lisa. "Black Women Remixed," Atlanta Journal Constitution, Sunday October 14, p. K4 Halle, Howard. "Kara Walker: My Compliment, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love," Time Out New York, October 25- 31, 2007, p. 70 Rounthwaite, A. "Making Mourning from Melancholia: The Art of Kara Walker." Image [&] Narrative [e-journal], 19 (2007) "Don't Look: Contemporary Drawings from an Alumna's Collection (Martina Yamin, class of 1958)" exhibition catalogue c. 2007 Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley MA. Arestizabal, Irma. "The Venice Biennale." Arte al Dia, Issue 120 pp. 70-73 Gartner, Barbara. "Pre View" Monopol # 10, 2007 pp. 127- 129 Saltz, Jerry. "An Explosion of Color in Black and White," New York Magazine, Nov 1. Yablonsky, Linda. "Kara Walker's Silhouettes Tell Tales of Sex, Race, White Power," Bloomberg.com, October 15, 2007 Budick, Ariella. "Kara Walker at the Whitney Museum," Newsday.com, October 14, 2007 Moos, David., Jacques, Michelle. Portis, Ben. "Wallworks: Contemporary Artists and Place," The Art Gallery of Ontario, c. 2007. ISBN: 978-1-894243-53-7, p. 24 Diez, Renato. "Nel paese delle ombre: Kara Walker," Arte, October 2007 Powell, Imani. "Evidence of Things Not Seen," Essence Magazine, October 2007 p. 93 Wolff, Rachel. "Ouch!" New York Magazine online: nymag.com Vulture: Art Candy, October 17 "Art Spotlight: Expressive Shapes." Scholastic Art Magazine, September/October 2007, p.10 Betti, Claudia and Sale, Teel. Drawing: A Contemporary Approach, c. Thomson Wadsworth 2008. ISBN 0-495-09491-9 Anastas, Rhea and Brenson, Michael, Witness to her Art, c. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 2007 ISBN: 1-931-493-55-3 Segal, Richard D. and Monica M. Contemporary Realism: The Seavest Collection, c. Richard D Segal and Monica M. Segal, 2007. ISBN: 1-933112-37-9 "Kara Walker: After the Deluge," c. 2007 Kara Walker, Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. ISBN: 0-8478-2981-2 Once upon a time there was a King. The Contemporary Fable, (Exhibition catalog) c. Arcos: Museo d’arte contemporanea Sannio. Benevento, Italy. ISBN 88-370-4969-2 Brocvielle, Vincent. “Le Corps, C’est la Race,” Têtu, July- August, 2007, p. 48 Dekel, Tel. “Sex, Race, and Gender: Contemporary Women Artists of Color, the Case of Kara Walker,” Atlantis, A Women’s Studies Review Journal, Vol 31.2, 2007 Powers, Bill. “Emancipation Provocation,” City Magazine Issue 50 pp. 67-69 de Wavrin, Isabelle. “Foire de Bale, Reine du Monde,” Beaux-Arts Magazine, pp. 94-96 Kappert, Von Ines. “Emanzipatino mit der Mutermilch,” Die Tageszeitung, May 11, 2007, p. 16 Montrasio, di Giuliana. “la fiaba visiva come custode di memoria,” Mood Magazine issue #127 p. 139-141 Fanelli, Franco. “An exhibition to make you think,” The Art Newspaper no. 182, July-August 2007, p. 31 Kruger, Barbara. Time Magazine "The Time 100: The Most Influential People in the World," May 14, 2007 Harvey, Matthea. Kara Walker, BOMB Magazine, Summer 2007, Number 100, pp74-82 Momentary Momentum: Animated Drawings, (Exhibition catalogue) c.Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, UK, 2007 ISBN 9783905770599 Riley, Cheryl R. Ebony Magazine, June 2007, pp. 104-108 Reilly, Maura and Nochlin, Linda, Global Feminisms, c. Merrell Publishers Ltd. 2007 in association with the Brooklyn Museum (Exhibition catalogue) ISBN: 978-1-8589-4390-9 Gavin, Francesca. "Moving drawings at London’s Parasol Unit," BBC Collective, March 8 Hubbard, Sue. "The details are nicely sketcy," The Independent, Tuesday March 27, p. 20 Sumpter, Helen. "Momentary Momentum" Time Out London, March 14- 20 Pryor, John-Paul. "Momentary Momentum Animation Exhibition," Dazed Digital, March 2 Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, February 18 - May 13, 2007; ARC/ Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, France, June 20 - September 9, 2007, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, November 11, 2007 - February 3, 2008; Hammer Museum, February 17 - May 11, 2008., c. 2007 (exhibition catalog) Organized by Philippe Vergne, texts by Sander L. Gilman…[et al] ISBN 978-0-935640-86-1 Yablonsky, Linda. "Kara Walker," Art & Auction, February 2001, pp. 46-52 Falconer, Morgan. "Screen Time: Kara Walker," Art Review, January 2007, p.30 Richard, Frances. Kara Walker at Walker Art Center, Previews, Artforum, January 2007, p. 97 Scott, Andrea K. "The Best and Worst of 2006," Time Out New York, Dec 28-Jan 3, 2007 Fogle, Douglas. "Looking Forward," Frieze, Jan-Feb 2007, p. 138 |
| 2006 | C’era Una Volta Un Re, La Fiaba Contemporanea, c. 2006 ARCOS Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Sannio Bryson, Norman. Gingeras, Alison M., Eggers, Dave. "John Currin," edited by Kara Vander Weg with Rose Dergan. C. Gagosian Gallery and Rizzoli New York 2006 ISBN: 10084728654, pp 23-26 Da Costa, Valerie. "Kara Walker," Artpress, no. 325, August, 2006. All the Best: The Deutsche Bank Collection and Zaha Hadid, (Exhibition Catalogue), The Singapore Art Museum, 2006. Fallon, Robert. "Connect the Dots," The Philadelphia Weekly, September 27. Sozanski, Edward J. "For This Artist "Drawing" is a Loose Term," The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 24. Patterson, Vivian, ed. Encounter: Williams College Museum of Art, Williams College, Willamstown MA, 2006. Celant, Germano, and Lisa Dennison. New York, New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Cinema, Performance, Photography, and Video, (Exhibition Catalogue) Grimaldi Forum Monaco, 2006. Hoffman, Jens. Surprise, Surprise, Institute of Contemporary Art, London (Exhibition Catalogue). Brew-Hammond, Nana Ekua. "Secrets and Ties: New York City's Dirty Little "Legacies" Exposed," Metro, June 26. "Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery Opens at the New York Historical Society," Daily Challenge, June 30. Boyd, Herb. "A Fresh Perspective on Slavery," New York Amsterdam News, July 6. Perree, Rob, "Forward Drive", Kunstbeeld.nl, June. Kinnon, Joy Bennett. "Travel Guide: What's Happening Where!," Ebony, June. Kinon, Cristina. "The Living is Easy: Summer," Gotham Magazine, Summer. Bischoff, Dan. "Arts Notes," The Star Ledger, June 14. Winship, Frederick M. "Contemporary Artists Depict Residues of Slavery," United Press International, June 16. ABN. "Exhibit Shows Slavery's Cultural Impact," Art Business News, May 1. "Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery," artdaily.com, posted June 16. "Artist Reflect on Slavery at N-YHS," artnet.com, posted March 17. "New York to Chicago…," David Patrick Columbia's New York Social Diary, posted July 6. Bernard, Audrey J. "Kickin' It: Exquisite Show Deals with How Racially Based Slavery Has Shaped Our Society," The New York Beacon, July 6 - 12. "Remembering Slavery," The Miami Herald, June 25. "Exhibit to Focus on the Legacy of Slavery," The Bronx News, June 1. "New-York Historical Society," The New Yorker, July 10. Lee, Felicia R. "Slavery's Legacy, Seen Through Art," The New York Times, Tuesday, June 13. Cotter, Holland. "Emancipation Remains a Work in Progress," The New York Times, Tuesday June 20. Sims, Lowery Stokes, Hulser, Kathleen, Copeland, Cynthia R. Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery, The New York Historical Society, NY, NY (Exhibition catalog) Parks, John A. "The Dark Black Outline," Drawing, Summer, 2006. Pp. 120-127 D'Arcy, David. "The Eyes of the Storm," Modern Painters, April, 2006 Landi, Ann, "Kara Walker," ARTNews, Summer 2006 Sheets, Hilarie M. "Sharks, Savagery and Sainthood: Kara Walker curates a show at The Met," ARTNews, June 2006 Kerr, Merrily. "Force Majeure", Time Out New York, April 20-26, p. 77 Frieze, Questionnaire, April 2006, p. 176 Saltz, Jerry. "Queen of Night," The Village Voice, March 23, 2006 Smith, Roberta. "Kara Walker Makes Contrasts in Silhouette in Her Own Met Show," The New York Times, Friday, March 24, 2006 Berwick, Carly. "Kara Walker's Troubling Silhouettes Bear Black-White Allusions," Bloomberg.com, March 22, 2006 The New Yorker, Goings On About Town, April 3, 2006 Sicha, Choire. "Sillman, Hesse, Walker; How 'Bout Utah for Some Art?" The New York Observer, March 6, 2006 Gilbert, Alan. "Another Future," c. Alan Gilbert, Wesleyan University Press, Middletown CT, ISBN 9780819567833, p. 42-44 Rubin, Anahi, "Reflexiones para despues del diluvio." Tiempos Del Mundo, April 13, p.26 Murray, Soroya, and Murray, Derek Conrad. "Uneasy Bedfellows: Canonical Art Theory and the Politics of Identity," ArtJournal, Spring 2006 Corwin, Sharon. Skowhegan 60 Years: School of Painting and Sculpture, c. Colby College, ISBN: 0-972848479, p. 74-75 |
| 2005 | Fairy Tales Forever: International Homage to H.C. Andersen, AROS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Copenhagen, Denmark (Exhibition Cagalogue) ISBN: 87-88575-89-6 Kantor, Jordan. Drawing from The Modern: 1975-2005, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, (Exhibition Catalogue) ISBN 0-87070-665-9, c. 2005 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Knight, Christopher, "A South Disney Didn't Dream Of," Los Angeles Times, September 12, 2005 Athey, Ron, "Kara E. Walker's Song of the South," LA Weekly Calendar, September 2-8, 2005 "Works on Paper, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany, c. 2005 (Exhibition catalog) text by Kirsty Bell "Getting Emotional," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, c.2005 (Exhibition catalog), ISBN: 0-910663-67-x, "Identita & Nomadismo," Palazzo Delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Sienna (Exhibition catalog) "Kiss the Frog! The Art of Transformation," National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway, c. 2005 (Exhibition Catalog) ISBN: 82-8154-005-2 "La Vendetta Della Silhouette," Arte, November 2005 Art on Paper, "Political Persuasion," Nov-Dec 2005 p.69 Fusi, Lorenzo. Identita & Nomadismo, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena Italy, c. 2005 pp. 148-151 |
| 2004 | Shaw, Gwendolyn Dubois. Seeing the Unspeakable: The Art of Kara Walker" Duke University Press, Durham NC c. 2004 ISBN: 0-8223-3396-1 Modern Art, Sam Hunter, John Jacobus, Daniel Wheeler, Third Edition, c. Pearson/Prentice Hall 2004, ISBN 0-13-189565-6 Artes Mundi Exhibition: Wales International Visual Art Prize, c. National Museum, Cardiff, Wales 2004, ISBN: 1-85411-369-0, Essay by Hamza Walker Heinrich, Barbara, In Erster Linie, Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel, Germany c. 2004 ISBN: 3-927015-41-05 Kimmelman, Michael, "The Convention of Beastly Beauty," The New York Times, Friday August 6, p.31 Demos, T.J., Kara Walker/Fabric Workshop and Museum, Artforum, Summer 2004 pp.251-2 Not Afraid: The Rubell Family Collection, Mark Coetzee, ISBN: 0714843938 c. Phaidon Press, London/New York, 2004. pp.234-235 Grub for Sharks: A Concession to the Negro Populace, (Exhibition Brochure) Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, U.K. May 1- October 31 Berwick, Carly. "Grotesqueries," NYU Alumni Magazine, Issue #2, Spring 2004, pp. 46-49 Nous Venons en Paix…, (Exhibition Catalog) Exhibition curated by Pierre Landry, c. Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, 2004, Montreal, Canada, ISBN: 2-551-22499-3, p. 120-126 Arango, Jorge, "Our Past in Black and White: Artist Kara Walker's take on Our History," Essence, February, p. 108 H.H. Arnason, Hisory of Modern Art, 5th Edition c. 2004 Prentice Hall, INC. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey ISBN: 0-13-184069-X, pp.757-8, 773 Gopnik, Blake. "Kara Walker Wins Smithsonian Artist Award," The Washington Post, Thursday, April 15, 2004, p. C5 Moreno, Gaen and Ibarguen, Nicols, Art Basel 2004: Kara Walker, Loft, no. 18, December-January, p. 58 Stewart, Rhonda "Still Here: Artist Kara Walker in Black and White," The Crisis Magazine January-Feburary, p. 49-51 Mazow, Leo G. "Picturing the Banjo," c. 2005 Pennsylvania State University, ISBN 0-271-02710-x, p. 139 |
| 2003 | Heller, Nancy G., Women Artists, Abbeville Press, New York, NY, 2003 ISBN: 0-7892-0345-6, pp. 263-267 Art 21: Art in the 21st Century, PBS tv show and book, Interviews/Essays by Susan Sollins, Edited by Marybeth Sollins, c. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. NY, NY 2003 ISBN: 0-8109-4609-2, pp. 60-71 Berger, Maurice. Occasional Paper of The Vera List Center for Art and Politics, New School University Art Collection, Fall. WCMAmail, Williams College Museum of Art newsletter, Summer/Fall Auricchio, Laura. "New York, New York," Art Papers, Nov/Dec, p. 48 Richard, Frances, "Kara Walker at Brent Sikkema," Artforum, October, p. 169 MacAdam, Barbara. "Kara Walker's Contradictions," Columbia Magazine, Fall, pp. 56-7 "Crowd," Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring/Summer ISBN 0-971333-48-1-1 Kinsella, Eileen. "The Rise of African American Art," ARTnews, September, pp. 118-123 Malone, Hermione. Many young artists are facing the issue of race…head on, Monday July 14. Johnson, Ken. Kara Walker at Brent Sikkema, The New York Times, Friday June 27, p. E 29 Flavorpill, Issue 160, July 1-7 Cohen, David. Kara Walker at Brent Sikkema, The New York Sun, Thursday June 19, p. 15 Cotter, Holland. "A Nightmare View of Antebellum Life That Sets Off Sparks," The New York Times, May 9, 2003, p. E36 Golden, Thelma. "Cast No Shadow," ArtReview, May, 2003, pp. 44-49. Stallings, Tyler, with Ken Gonzales-Day, Amelia Jones and David R. Roediger. Whiteness: A Wayward Construction, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach CA (Exhibition Catalog) c. 2003 ISBN: 0-940872-28-5 Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (Exhibition Catalog), Edited by Ian Berry, Darby English, Vivian Patterson, and Mark Reinhardt, co-published by: The Tang Museum, Williams College, MIT Press. c. 2003, ISBN 0-262-02540-X Barrett, Terry. Interpreting Art: Reflecting, Wondering, and Responding, McGraw Hill, New York, NY. C. 2003. ISBN 0-7674-1648-1 pp. 77-79, 82, 205 Copjec, Joan. Imagine there's no Woman: Ethics and Sublimation, MIT, Cambridge, MA C. 2003. ISBN: 0-262-03299-6, pp. 8, 83-90, 93, 98-100, 106-107 Moura, Rodrigo and Zaccagnini, Carla. "São Paulo Biennial," ArtNexus No. 46/Volume 4, pp. 30-33 Ceceri, Kathryn. "Courting Controversy," The Post-Star, Glenn Falls, NY, Thursday January 16, p. 2 Cahill, Timothy. "Dark Shadows," Times Union, Albany, NY Friday January 17, pp. D1, D3 McPherson, Tara. Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender, and Nostalgia, in the Imagined South, Duke University Press, Durham and New York, c. 2003. ISBN: 0=8223-3029-6. pp. 82-86, 92-94, 145, 187, 252. Schoonmaker, Trevor. Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Exhibition catalog. The New Museum, New York, NY, c. 2003 |
| 2002-2003 | Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain: Selected Works from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. (Exhibition Catalog) Edited by Kari Dahlgren, Trisha Beck. ISBN: 0-933856-74-1, c. 2002, p. 272 Visuell, Deutsche Bank Art, Frankfurt Germany c. 2002-2003 ISBN 3-9808810-9-1 |
| 2002 | Kara Walker: Pictures from Another Time, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Edited by Karen Goldbaum, Authors: Annette Dixon, Thelma Golden, Robert F. Reid-Pharr, James Christen Steward, ISBN 1-891024-50-7, c. 2002 Kara Walker, Kunstverein Hannover, Edited by Stephan Berg, Authors: Stephan Berg, Silke Boerma, Robert Hobbs, Eungie Joo, ISBN 3-922675-84-0, c. 2002 Vahland, Kia. "Kara Walker," Art das Kunstmagazin, no. 5, May, pp. 2-39 Perrée, Rob. "Kara Walker: Gehaat en Bemind," Kunstbeeld, no. 9, pp. 6-9 Ewing, John. "Reflecting on Movement in Contemporary Art," ArtL!es, Summer 2002, pp. 13-15 Grosenick, Uta & Burkhard, Riemschneider. "Art Now" published by Taschen, 2002, ISBN: 3-8228-1444-X, pp. 520-524. Smith, Roberta. "At the Guggenheim, Selected Short Subjects," The New York Times, Friday July 19, 2002 p. 35 Tempo, exhibition catalog, MoMAQNS, New York, June 29-September 9, 2002 Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, exhibition catalogue MoMAQNS, New York, 2002. c. The Museum of Modern Art. ISBN: 0-87070-362-5 Juxtapoz, July-August 2002, p. 44 Gopnik, Blake. "Kara Walker's Rich X-Ray On Race," Washington Post, Tuesday, June 25, p. C01 Louiss, Ange. "Étendard Walker." Artactuel, May-June 2002, pp.72-73 Green, Roger. "Walker's Art Elicits Passionate, Mixed Response," Ann Arbor News, March 23, 2002 Sheets, Hilarie M. "Kara Walker's cutout silhouettes of antebellum racial stereotypes are lewd, provocative- and beautiful." ARTnews, April 2002, pp. 126-129 "Kara Walker e o teatro de sombras da escravidão," O Estado de Sao Paulo, April 1, 2002 "O Sucesso da arte politicamente incorreta," O Estado de Sao Paulo, April 1, 2002 New Art Examiner, April 2002 "In The Arts," Portland Press Herald, March 17, 2002 "Kara Walker To Represent The U.S. At The 2002 São Paulo Bienal," Antiques & The Arts Weekly, March 8, 2002 "Kara Walker," Tema Celeste, News & Around, Issue 91, P. 120 Celant, Germano. "Kara Walker: ombre altre," Interni, February 2002, pp. 162-167 Eagly, Ursula. "Artist's Portfolio, Kara Walker," (ai) Performance for the Planet. Spring 2002. pp. 68-77 & cover. Fioravante, Celso. "International Exhibitions," Artforum.com, March 2002 Heartney, Eleanor. "Kara Walker at Brent Sikkema," Art in America. January 2002, p. 103. Hobbs, Robert. "Kara Walker, Slavery! Slavery!" International Arts and Artists, Washington DC. (Catalog for the 25th International Bienal of Sao Pãolo.) Kara Walker, Catalogue with text by Marion Ackermann, Dr. Arianne Grigoteit, Friedhelm Hutte and Edna Moshenson. Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Nabakowski, Gislind. "Kara Walker: Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin," Art Press 283, October 2002, pp. 78-9 Reeve, Charles. "Kara Walker at the São Paulo Biennial: A conversation with Robert Hobbes," Art Papers Magazine, April 2002, pp. 12-13 Schwazman, Carol. Review: New York: Kara Walker, Art Papers, Jan/Feb 2002, pp. 46-47 Subotnick, Ali. "Kara Walker," Make, Special Edition 92, 2002, pp. 25-27 Viahland, Kia. "Die im Dunklen sieht man doch: zu Besuch im Schattenreich," Art, May 2002, pp. 32-39 Cullum, Jerry. "Starting out from Atlanta: Three Artists Imagine History," The International Review of African American Art, Spring 2002, pp.43-47 Five Poems by Toni Morrison, silhouettes by Kara Walker, Rainmaker Editions, Las Vegas 2002 Cheng, Scarlet. "California Grrrls," calanderlive.com, September 29 |
| 2001 | Beem, Edgar. "Kara Walker," The Boston Globe, December 30, 2001 Vogel, Carol. "Artist is Chosen," The New York Times, December 28, 2001 Shanley, Douglas. "Kara Walker/Brent Sikkema," Flash Art, November-December 2001, p.94-95 MacAdam, Alfred. "Kara Walker/Brent Sikkema," ARTnews, November 2001, p. 76 Möntmann, Nina, "Kara Walker," Women Artists in the 20th and 21st Century. Edited by Uta Grosenick. c. Taschen, Köln, Germany 2001. pp. 530-535 the americans. new art. Catalogue, Barbicon Gallery, Barbicon Centre. Curated by Mark Sladen, Texts by Bruce Hainley, Katy Siegel, Bennett Simpson, Mark Sladen, John Slyce. Pp. 152-160. Publ. 2001 Booth-Clibborn Editions, London. "(About) Arts International," (ai) Performance for the Planet. Fall 2001. pp. 8-10. Mendelsohn, Meredith. "Kara Walker," Tema Celeste. November - December 2001, p. 79. Moore, Alan. "Broken Love," Artnet.com. October 4, 2001 "Kara Walker at Brent Sikkema," The New Yorker, October 1, 2001, p. 20-21. Smith, Roberta. "Art in Review: Kara Walker 'American Primitive,'" The New York Times. September 28, 2001 Ackermann, Marion and Helmut Friedel editors, Schatten Risse Silhouetten Und Cutouts, February 2001. Brüderlin, Markus. "Kara Walker's art dances up, seductive in the sweet guise of Victoria silhouettes." Ornament and Abstraction, Foundation Beyeler. June 2001, p.174-175 Herzog, Samuel. "Die schwarze Seele wird von der Moderne verbraucht." Basler Zeitung. June 9-10. Levin, Kim. Waterworks: US.Akarell 2001, Nordiska Akarellmuseet catalog, April 2001, p.122 to p.136. Steinberg, Claudia. "Scharfe Schnitte," Deutsch Vogue, April 2001, p. 230- 234, p. 314, p.316 Newhall, Edith. "Critic's Eye: Kara Walker," New York, Fall Preview Special, September 10, 2001, p. 92 Tallman, Susan and Deborah Wye, Parkett Collaborations & Editions Since 1984, Published on the occasion of the Parkett exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2001, p. 258-259 |
| 2000 | Abouseda, Barbara. "Rumeurs: Kara Walker," La Clef, April 2000. Basting, Barbara. "Die eigene Geschichte nicht verbergen," Die Wochenzeitung, March 30. Boris, Staci. Drawing on the Figure: Works on Paper of the 1990s from the Manilow Collection (exhibition catalogue): Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, 2000. Buskirk, Martha. "Planning for Impermanence," Art in America, April 2000, p. 113-119, 167. Chauvy, Laurence. "William Kentridge et Kara Walket, entre scène, satire et vidéo," Le Temps, March 21, 2000. Dubois Shaw, Gwendolyn. "Final Cut," Parkett #60, p 129-133 Janus, Elizabeth. "As American as Apple Pie," Parkett #60, p130-141 Fleming, Jeff. "Kara Walker: Fantasies of Disbelief," exhibition brochure, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, 2000. Herzog, Samuel. "Was ich auch tue, es wird immer politisch sein," Kunst Bulletin, May 2000. Jaunin, Francoise. "Esclavagisme en noir et blanc," Journal 24 Heures, April 3, 2000. Jenkins, Sydney O. This is Not the Place (exhibition catalogue), Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, NJ. Leffingwell, Edward. "Carnegie Ramble," Art in America, March 2000, p. 86-93, 142. Phillips, Christopher. "Report from Istanbul: Band of Outsiders," Art in America, April 2000, p. 70-75. Potter, Chris. "The Carnegie Internationnal explores boundaries in a complicated world," Pittsburgs City Paper, p1-11 Siegel, Katy. "1999 Carnegie International," Art Forum, p 105-106. Talty, Stephan. "Spooked. The white slave narratives," Transition, V10N1, Issue 8 Vettese, Angela. "Scenari ambigui di rara xenofobia," 24 Ore, Milano, March 13, 2000. Walker, Hamza. "Nigger Lover or Will There Be Any Black People in Utopia?, " Parkett #60, p152-160 Walker, Hamza. "Kara Walker: Cut it Out," Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, No. 11/12, Fall / Winter 2000. Whaler, Marc-Olivier. "Le 'BAC' crée une synergie sans précédent," Le Journal des Arts, March 17-30, 2000. Wettengl, Kurt. "Das Gegächtnis der Kunst: History and Memory in Comtamporary Art," Historisches Museum, Frankfurt a. M., 1999, p.190-193 |
| 1999 | Bloemink, Barbara J. and Lisa Gail Collins. Re/Righting History; Counternarratives by Contemporary African-American Artists (exhibition catalogue): Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY. Daniel, Mike. "Dividing Lines," The Dallas Morning News, January 8, 1999. Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter. " Reframing a Black Experience," Los Angeles Times, October 31, 1999, p.59 & 60. Frankel, David. "Kara Walker," ARTFORUM, April 1999, p.122. Grynsztejn, Madeleine. Carnegie International 1999/2000 (exhibition catalogue), Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA. "Kara Walker," New York Magazine, December 20-27, 1999, p. 195. Massey Helber, Annabelle. "Paper Views," The Met, January 27 - February 3, 1999 (Dallas, Texas). Newkirk, Pamela. "Pride or Prejudice?" ARTnews, March 1999. "Out of Africa," The New York Times Magazine (artist's page), p.90, 91. Potter, Chris. "Far Away, So Close: The Carnegie International explores boundaries in a complicated world," Pittsburgh City Paper, November 3 - November 10, 1999, p.18-23. Princenthal, Nancy. "Kara Walker, Wooster Gardens/Brent Sikkema," Art in America, February. Rees, Christina. "The black eye," The Dallas Observer, January 14-20, 1999. Rinder, Lawrence. "An Interview with Kara Walker," Capp Street Project: Kara Walker (exhibition catalogue), CCAC, Oakland. Sharpe, Christina Elizabeth. "Kara Walker and Michael Ray Charles," in Looking Forward, Looking Black (exhibition catalogue): ed. Jo Anna Isaak, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Press, Geneva, New York, 1999. Slesin, Suzanne. "High and Mighty-The Provocative art of Peter and Eileen Norton," House and Garden, March 1999. Tate, Greg. "In Praise of Shadow Boxers: The Crisis of Originality and Authority in African-American Visual Art vs. The Wu-Tang Clan," Other Narratives, Contemporary Arts Museum: Houston, Texas, p.39-44. "30th Anniversary: Art Crystal Ball, Life in 2029," Interview (artist's page), October 1999, p.225. "Walker Skirmish," Art on Paper, vol. 4, no. 2, November-December 1999, p.22-23. |
| 1998 | Alvarez, Adriana. "Most Peculiar, Mama," Revolver, June 22. Cotter, Holland. "Kara Walker," The New York Times, November 20, 1998. Cullum, Jerry. "Stereotype This!" Art Papers, November/December. Daniel, Jeff. "Black-and-White are Tinted with Gray," St. Louis Post Dispatch, April 26. Feldman, Melissa E. and Ingrid Schaffner. Secret Victorians, Contemporary Artists and a 19th-Century Vision, Exhibition catalogue. Traveling exhibition organized by the Hayward Gallery, London, UK. Hannaham, James. "Pea, Ball, Bounce: Interview with Kara Walker," Interview, November 1998. Jones, Ronald. "Crimson Herring," Artforum, Summer. Kino, Carol. "Kara Walker," Time Out New York, November 19-26, 1998. McEwen, Velma M. "Collective Unconscious 'Reconfigured' in Black and White: Kara Walker," The Harvard Crimson, March 20. Perree, Rob. Postcards from Black America. Con Rumore, Amsterdam (Dutch text) Parr, Debra Riley. "Stepping Out, Forum for Contemporary Art," The Riverfront Times, April 29-May 5. Rothkopf, Scott. "Walker Show Subverts Racial Stereotypes," The Harvard Crimson, March 19. Saltz, Jerry. "Making the Cut: Kara Walker, Wooster Gardens," Village Voice, November 24, 1998. Smee, Sebastian. "The Whole World is Wild Heart and Weird on Top," The Sydney Morning Herald, May 22-28. Tunnicliffe, Wayne. Strange Days, Exhibition catalogue, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Tunnicliffe, Wayne. "Strange Days, Exhibition Preview," Look, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, May. |
| 1997 | Alberro, Alexander and Gary Garrels. Kara Walker, Upon My Many Masters - An Outline. Exhibition catalog. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Armstrong, Elizabeth, Deepali Dewan, Richard Flood, Douglas Fogle and others. No Place (Like Home), Exhibition catalog, Walker Art Center. Artner, Alan G. "Reaching Back, Kara Walker's Vision Is Rooted In The Past," The Chicago Tribune, January 19. Avgikos, Jan. "When Is A Gaze Not A Gaze And What Difference Does It Make?" The Gaze, Exhibition catalog, Momenta Art. Bloodstone, Maggie. "Kara Walker Cast Disturbing Shadows at the Henry," Seattle Gay News, October 31. Bonetti, David. "Strong Work From an African American, and an African," San Francisco Examiner, February 19. Brown, Lesley-Ann. "Painting The Dirty South, Kara Walker," The Source. January. Chalam, Anitha. "Messages Pervade Art Exhibit," The Michigan Daily, January 28. Dalton, Karen C.C., Michael D. Harris, Lowery Sims. "The Past Is Prologue But Is Parody And Pastiche Progress?" The International Review of African American Art. Volume 14, Number 3. "Extreme Times Call For Extreme Heroes," The International Review Of African American Art, Volume 14, Number 3. Fox, Catherine. "Genius At Work," The Atlanta Journal -Constitution, July 6. Glueck, Grace. "An Unconventional Publisher With An Appetite For The Comic And Quirky," New York Times, March 28. Gumpert, Lynn. "On The Edge; Kara Walker, Anything But Black And White," Artnews, January. Greenberg, Kevin. "Walker Distills Southern Discomfort," The Chicago Maroon, January 21. Josslin, Victoria. "Cutting Through Stereotypes," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 15. Kucera, Greg and Halima Taha. Civil Progress: Life In Black America, Exhibition catalog, Greg Kucera Gallery. Neri, Louise and Lisa Phillips. 1997 Biennial, Exhibition catalog, Whitney Museum of American Art. Rich, B. Ruby. "Return Of The Repressed", San Francisco Bay Guardian, February 26. Schjeldahl, Peter. "Museumification 1997, The Whitney Biennial As Pleasure Machine", The Village Voice. April 1. Sendler, Emily. "Three Artists, Countless Ideas In 'Handmade Tale' ," The Ann Arbor News. January 18. Szabo, Julia. "Kara Walker's Shock Art", The New York Times Magazine. March 23. "21 For The 21st," Ms., September-October. Unger, Miles. "New Histories, The Institute Of Contemporary Art, Boston," Flash Art, January - February. Updike, Robin. "Shades of Meaning," Seattle Times, September 12. Updike, Robin. "Visual Arts," Seattle Times Guide to Fall Arts, September 9. Wagner, Venise. "For This Artist, the Joke's on All of Us," San Francisco Examiner, February 16. Walker, Kara. Freedom, A Fable, A Curious Interpretation of the Wit of a Negress in Troubled Times. Text and illustration by the artist. The Norton Family. Walker, Kara. Kara Walker, Exhibition catalogue. Design and text by the artist. The Renaissance Society Wasserman, Tina. "Kara Walker, Renaissance Society, Chicago," C, May - August. |
| 1996 | Alberro, Alexander. "Kara Walker," Index, January. Camhi, Leslie. "Cutting Up," Village Voice, April 9. Doran, Anne. "Kara Walker: A Dissection From The Bowels To The Bosom," Grand Street, Issue 58. Doran, Anne. "Kara Walker, "From The Bowel To The Bosom," Time Out, March 13. Forman, Debbie. "New Histories At ICA, A Novel Approach," Cape Cod Times, November 23. Golden, Thelma. "Oral Mores: A Postbellum Shadow Play," Art Forum, September. Gumpert, Lynne Beatrice Parent. La Belle et la Bete: Un Choix de Juenes Artists Americainsm, exhibition catalog. Hannaham, James. "The Shadow Knows: A Hysterical Tragedy Of One Young Negress And Her Art," New Histories, Exhibition catalog, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Haye, Christian. "Strange Fruit," Frieze, September/October, Issue 30. Hill, Shawn. "ICA Exhibit Makes Controversial 'Histories'," The Weekly Tab, November 5-11. Hill, Shawn. "Messages From The Margins, New Histories At The ICA," Bay Windows, December 19. Levin, Kim. "Art Short List - Kara Walker," Voice Choices - The Village Voice, March 13 -19. Pedersen, Victoria. "Gallery Go 'Round," Paper Guide. April 4. "Seven Up, Critical Edge", Art & Auction. Sherman, Mary. "New Histories, Lets Viewers Stand In Another's Shoes," Boston Sunday Herald, October 27. Temin, Christine. "ICA Creates 'New Histories' With Global Perspective," The Boston Globe, November. Turner, Elisa. "Double-Bill At The Bass Bites With Wit, Insight," The Miami Herald. Saturday, December 21. Vincent, Stephen. "Portrait Of The Artist: Kara Walker," Art & Auction, December. |
| 1995 | "Wooster Garden," New York Daily News, April 28, 1995. Cotter, Holland. Group Show," [Art In Review] The New York Times, March 3. "Voice Choices," The Village Voice, May 2. Cullum, Jerry. "'Landscape' Exhibit Alters The Boundaries," Atlanta Journal Constitution, June. Freyberger, H.C."The Drawing Center," [In Japanese] Rokugatsu No Kaze 128, January, 1995. Locke, Donald. "A Room With A View, A Through Nexus' Art Garden," Creative Loafing, June 3. PCN, July - August. Smith, Roberta. "Kara Walker," Art In Review, The New York Times, Friday, May 5. Worth, Alexi. "Black And White And Kara Walker," Art New England, December '95/January '96. |
| 1994 | Cotter, Holland. "Selections Fall 94," [Art In Review] The New York Times, September 23. |
| SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Art Gallery of South Australia The Art Institute of Chicago, IL The Baltimore Museum of Art, MD Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, CA Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY Centro Nazionale per le Arti Contemporanee, Rome, Italy The Contemporary Museum, Honalulu, Hawaii The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. DESTE Foundation, Athens, Greece Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt, Germany Foundation Museé d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg Guggenheim Museum, NY Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI Musee d'Art Moderne, Luxembourg Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Museum of Modern Art, New York Museum voor Modern Kunst, The Netherlands Princeton University Art Museum The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL The Judith Rothschild Foundation San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York The Tate Gallery, London, U.K. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Williams College Museum of Art, MA |
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