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Artist
Kara Walker
b. 1969, Stockton, California, USA · American · Based in New York, USA
- MFA, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD, 1994)
- BFA, Atlanta College of Art (1991)
- Cut-Paper Black Silhouettes
- Sugar Sphinx Monument
- Drawing
- Film
- Sculpture
Kara Walker became known in the 1990s for room-scale black-paper silhouettes that use the visual language of nineteenth-century portraiture to stage grotesque scenes of slavery, race, sexuality and violence. She has since expanded into film, drawing, monumental sculpture and public installation.
Cut paper; drawing; installation; film; sculpture
Gallery Representation
Artist Films
2018 Walter Annenberg Lecture: Kara Walker | Live from the Whitney
Whitney Museum of American ArtOfficial source ↗ (opens in a new window)
Major Works
- 1994Gone: An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred b’tween the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart
- 1997Slavery! Slavery!
- 2000Insurrection! (Our Tools Were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On)
- 2001Darkytown Rebellion
- 2014A Subtlety
- 2019Fons Americanus
- 2005Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)
- 2005Testimony
- 2017Resurrection Story with Patrons
- 2024Fortuna and the Immortality Garden
Museums & Public Collections
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
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