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Kara Walker    (American, 1969)



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Biography
1969 Born in Stockton, CA
1991 B.F.A. in Painting/Printmaking, Atlanta College of Art
1994 Awards of Excellence II, Rhode Island School of Design
1994 M.F.A. in Painting/Printmaking, Rhode Island School of Design
1997 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Grant
2004 The Lucelia Artist Award, The Smithsonian American Art Museum
Lives and works in New York

Exhibitions
2008 - 2009 Pandora's Box, Dunlop Art Gallery, Saskatchewan, Canada, May 16- July 20; travels to Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener Ontario, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa Ontario, Kamloops Art Gallery BC, Kamloops BC, Winnipeg Art Gallery, MB, Winnipeg, USA (group)
2008 - 2009 Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, April 1- August 10; Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, September 10- December 10; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, January 31- April 26, USA
2008 - 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- January 4, USA (group)
2008 Freedom: American Sculpture, The Hague Sculpture 2008, The Hague, The Netherlands, June 6- August 31
2008 The Black Road, CAC Málaga, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Spain, June; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, November
2008 Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA, February 17 - May 13; ARC/ Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, France, June 20 - September 9, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA, November 11 - February 3; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA, February 17 - May 11
2008 Las Vegas Collects Contemporary, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV, USA , May 23 - Oct 26 (group)
2008 Förlust/Loss, WANÅS Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden, May 18 - October 19 (group)
2007 - 2008 Geopolitics of the Animation, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Spain, September 27 – December 9, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Spain, February 29- June 1 (group)
2007 - 2008 Women’s Work: Contemporary Women Printmakers from the Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, USA, October 27 - January 20 (group)
2007 - 2008 Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image since 1970, The Spelman; College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA, USA, Sept 14- Dec 8, Jan 24- May 24 (group)
2007 The Feminine Mysterious, Red Dot Contemporary, West Palm Beach, FL, USA, February 17-March 17 (group)
2007 Haunted Screens, UB Art Gallery, Center for the Arts, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA, March 29-May 19 (group)
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, USA, October 20 – November 21
2007 Don't Look: Contemporary Drawings from an Alumna's Collection; Martina Yamin, class of 1958; Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, MA, USA (group)
2007 Taking Aim: Selections from the Elliot L. Perry Collection, RClough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, USA, September 7- October 11 (group)
2007 Contemporary, Cool and Collected, The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, October 20- December 30 (group)
2007 Momentary Momentum: Animated Drawings, Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, UK (group)
2007 52nd International Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (group)
2007 Repicturing the Past, Picturing the Present, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, June 13- November 5 (group)
2007 Global Feminisms, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Contemporary Art at The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, USA, March 23- July 1; Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, September 12- December 9 (group)
2007 Take 2: Women Revisiting Art History, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA, USA, January 17- March 15 (group)
2007 Fantasmagoria, Fundacion ICO, Madrid, Spain, January 18 - March 18
2007 Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, USA, January 26 – March 18
2006 - 2007 Meditations in an Emergency, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI, USA, October 28 – April 29
2006 - 2007 Into Me / Out of Me, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany, November 26 – January 28
2006 - 2007 Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery, The New York Historical Society, NY, USA, June 16- January 7
2006 - 2007 The Bong Show or This Is Not a Pipe, curated by Beverly Semmes, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY, USA, December 9 - January 20
2006 - 2007 Brighton Photo Biennial: Voodoo Macbeth, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, UK, October 7 – January 7
2006 - 2007 Tracing Shadows, The Israel Museum, The Ruth Young Wing, Jerusalem, Israel
2006 - 2007 Once upon a Time: The Contemporary Fable, Arcos, Museo d’arte Contemporanea, Sannio Campania, Italy, October 15 - February 28 (group)
2006 Sikkema Jenkins & Co. New York, NY, USA, March 4 – April 1
2006 Kara Walker at the Met: After the Deluge, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA, March 21 – August 6
2006 New York, New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Cinema, Performance, Photography and Video, Grimaldi Forum Monaco, Monte Carlo, July 14 – September 10
2006 Black Alphabet: Contexts of Contemporary African American Art, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland, September 23 – November 19
2006 Fables, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, September 9 - December 17
2006 Liquid Paper, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA, USA, June 30 - August 6
2006 Surprise! Surprise! ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London, UK, August 2 - September 10
2006 Into Me/Out of Me, PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, MOMA Affiliate, Long Island City, New York, USA
2006 Rethinking Nordic Colonialism, A Postcolonial Exhibition Project in Five Acts, Act 1: Reykjavik, Iceland, March 24 – April 16, Act 2: Nuuk, Greenland, April 21 – May 14, Act 3: Tórshavn, The Faroe Islands, May 12 – June 4, Act 4: Rovaniemi, Sápmi/Finland, June 16 – July 9, Act 5: DVD Box Set Launch in Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo & Stockholm, November 25, curated by Kuratorisk Aktion, Frederikke Hansen & Tone Olaf Nielsen, for NIFCA, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art
2006 Down By Law, a Wrong Gallery project for the 2006 Whitney Biennial: Day for Night, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA, January 21- May 21
2006 Dark, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, curated by Jan Grosfeld and Rein Wolfs, February 18- April 17
2006 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
2006 Skowhegan 60 Years: School of Painting and Sculpture, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME, USA, July 22- October 29
2006 All the Best: The Deutsche Bank Collection and Zaha Hadid, The Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, September 1 – November
2005 Song of the South, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2005 Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
2005 Kara Walker, Testimony Brent Sikkema, New York, USA (solo)
2005 The World is a Stage Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (group)
2004 - 2005 Site Santa Fe's Fifth International Biennial Curated by Robert Storr, Santa Fe, USA (group)
2004 - 2005 Monument to Now, The Dakis Joannou Collection The DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece (group)
2004 Dana Schutz, Amy Sillman, Kara Walker Brent Sikkema, New York, USA (group)
2004 Provocations: Selections from the Permanent Collection The Bronx Museum of Art, New York, USA (group)
2004 Nous Venons en Paix... Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Canada (group)
2004 Grub for Sharks: A Concession to the Negro Populace, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
2003 Centro Nazionale per le Arti Contemporanee, Rome, Italy
2003 Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, traveled to Williams College Art Museum, Williamstown, MA, USA
2003 Narratives of a Negress: Kara Walker Tang teaching Museum at Skidmore College, Williamstown, USA (solo)
2003 Kara Walker, drawings Brent Sikkema, New York, USA (solo)
2002 - 2003 Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA (group)
2002 Tempo, MoMAQNS, New York, USA (group)
2002 Telling Tales: Narrative Impulses in Recent Art, Tate Liverpool, UK (group)
2002 Nat Turner's Revelation (an Important Lesson from our Negro Past You will Likley Forget to Remember), Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2002 An Abbreviated Emancipation The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Michigan, USA (solo)
2002 Slavery!, Slavery!, 25th International Bienal of Sao Paolo, Brazil (solo)
2002 Kara Walker, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim, Germany; Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany; Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany; Museumquartier, Vienna, Austria; Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnheim, The Netherlands (solo)
2002 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 (solo)
2002 Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA (solo)
2001 American Primitive, Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2001 Disturbing Allegories, Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, USA (solo)
2001 The Emancipation Approximation, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel (solo)
2001 Form Follows Fiction, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy (group)
2001 Six Contemporary Artists, The Clifford Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, USA (group)
2001 The Americans, Barbican Art Galleries, Barbican Centre, London, UK (group)
2001 New to the Modern: Recent Acquisitions from the Department of Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (group)
2001 The Print World, Ljubljana Biennial 2001, Ljubljana, Slovenia (group)
2001 W, Musée des Beaux – Arts, Cole, France (group)
2001 Parkett Collaborations & Editions Since 1984, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (group)
2001 New Settlements, Nikolaj Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark (group)
2001 Secret Victorians, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA (group)
2001 Locating Drawing, Lawing Gallery, Houston, USA (group)
2001 SchattenRisse, Silhouetten und Cutouts, Kunstbau Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany (group)
2001 Ornament and Abstraction, The Foundation Beyler, Basel, Switzerland (group)
2001 Waterworks, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn, Sweden (group)
2000 Blurry Lines, John Michael Kholer Arts Center, Sherboyan, USA (group)
2000 Das Gedäschtnis der Kunst: History and Memory in Contemporary Art, Historic Museum of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany (group)
2000 The Power of Narration, Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castello, Spain (group)
2000 Point of Reference, Frederick Hayes, Glenn Ligon, Gary Simmons, Kara Walker, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, USA (group)
2000 Drawing on the Figure: Works on Paper of the 1990s from the Manilow Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA (group)
2000 Strength and Diversity: A Celebration of African-American Artists, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA (group)
2000 Age of Influence: Reflections in the Mirror of American Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA (group)
2000 This is Not the Place, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, USA (group)
2000 00, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA (group)
2000 Kara Walker, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, USA (solo)
1999 Why I Like White Boys, an Illustrated Novel by Kara E. Walker Negress, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
1999 Kara Walker, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, USA (solo)
1999 Another Fine Mess, Brent Sikkema, New York, USA (solo)
1999 African't, Galleri Index, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
1999 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, USA; UCLA Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
1999 Istanbul Biennial: The Passion and the Wave, Istanbul, Turkey (group)
1999 Looking Forward, Looking Black, Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA (group)
1999 Re/Righting History; Counternarratives by Contemporary African-American Artists, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, USA (group)
1999 Other Narratives, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA (group)
1999 Art-Worlds in Dialogue, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (group)
1999 Carnegie International 1999/2000, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA (group)
1999 Glenn Ligon & Kara Walker, Brent Sikkema, New York, USA (group)
1999 Au-Delà, Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany (group)
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; Arnolfini, Bristol, UK; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK; Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Middlesbrough, UK; UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA (group)
1998 Global Vision, New Art from the 90's, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece (group)
1998 Strange Days, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (group)
1998 Postcards From Black America, De Beyerd, Breda and The Frans Hals Museum, Harlem, The Netherlands (group)
1998 Arturo Herrera and Kara Walker, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK (group)
1998 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, USA (group)
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, USA (solo)
1998 Kara Walker: Prints, The Print Center, Philadelphia, USA (solo)
1998 Opera Safety Curtain for 1998-99 Season, Vienna State Opera House, Vienna, Austria (solo)
1998 Kara Walker Wooster Gardens/Brent Sikkema, New York, USA (solo)
1998 Kara Walker The Forum. St. Louis, USA (solo)
1997 Upon My Many Masters - An Outline, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA (solo)
1997 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, USA; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA; The Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA (solo)
1997 Kara Walker Huntington Beach Arts Center, Huntington Beach, USA (solo)
1997 ‘Pagan' Stories: The Situations of Narrative in Recent Art, Apex Art, New York, USA (group)
1997 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA (group)
1997 no place (like home), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA (group)
1997 Civil Progress: Life in Black America, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, USA (group)
1997 The Gaze, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, USA (group)
1997 Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA, USA
1997 Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA
1997 Center for contemporary Art, Cincinnati, OH, USA
1997 Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL, USA
1997 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
1997 A Singular Vision: Prints from Landfall Press, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1997 (No Place) Like Home, Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
1997 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1997 Landfall Press, Twenty-Five Years of Printmaking, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, USA
1996 From the Bowels to the Bosom, Wooster Gardens NYC, USA
1996 Bernard Toale Gallery Boston, MA, USA
1996 Body Language, Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts Boston, MA, USA
1996 New Histories, ICA Boston, MA, USA
1996 Real, Bass Museum, Miami, USA (group)
1996 New Histories, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA (group)
1996 Conceal/Reveal, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, USA (group)
1996 No Doubt, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, USA (group)
1996 Body Language, Mills Gallery, Boston, USA (group)
1996 Gone With the Wind: The Fabrication and Denial of Southern Culture, The City Gallery, Atlanta, USA (group)
1996 From the Bowels to the Bosom, Wooster Gardens/Brent Sikkema, New York, USA (solo)
1996 Ol' Marster Paintin's and Silhouette Cuttings, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, USA (solo)
1995 The High and Soft Laughter of the Nigger Wenches At Night, Wooster Gardens/Brent Sikkema, New York, USA (solo)
1995 The Battle of Atlanta: Being the Narrative of a Negress in the Flames of Desire – A Reconstruction, Nexus Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, USA (solo)
1995 Look Away! Look Away! Look Away!, Center For Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA (solo)
1995 La Belle et La Bete, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (group)
1995 Now is the Time, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA (group)
1995 Landscapes, Borders, Boundaries, Nexus Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, USA (group)
1995 Inaugural Show, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, USA (group)
1995 Drawing Show, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, USA (group)
1995 A Drawing, Bravin Post-Lee NYC, USA
1995 La Belle et la Bete, Museum of Modern Art Paris, France
1995 Not Not, Who's There?, E.S. Vandam NYC, USA
1995 Now Is the Time, Tony Shafrazi Gallery NYC, USA
1995 Landscapes, Borders, Boundaries, Nexus Contemporary Arts Center Atlanta, GA, USA
1995 Inaugural Exhibition, Paul Morris Gallery NYC, USA
1995 Drawing Show, Bernard Toale Gallery Boston, MA, USA
1995 More Than Real, Gallery 400 Chicago, IL, USA
1995 Look Away!..., Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
1995 The High and Soft Laughter..., Brent Sikkema/Wooster Gardens NYC, USA
1994 Thesis Show, Sol Koffler Gallery Providence, RI, USA
1994 Selections 1994, The Drawing Center, New York, USA (group)
1994 Summer Group Show +2, Stienbaum/Krauss Gallery, New York, USA (group)
1994 An Historical Romance, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, USA (group)
1993 1993 Annual Invitational New Talent Exhibition, MU Gallery, Boston, USA (group)
1993 Rough Trade, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, USA (group)
1993 Angry Love, Pavilion Exhibit, Arts Festival of Atlanta, Atlanta, USA (group)
1993 National Black Arts Festival/Emerging Artists, Arts Exchange, Atlanta, USA (group)
1993 Into the Light, 1992 Nexus Biennale, Nexus Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, USA (group)
1993 Black Women Artists, YMI Cultural Center, Asheville, USA (group)
1991 Black Men: Image/Reality, New Visions Gallery, Atlanta, USA (group)
1991 The Naked People Show, 800 East, Atlanta, USA (group)
1991 Swan Song, Gallery 100, Atlanta, USA (group)
1991 The Earth Factory Show, Hasting Seeds Building, Atlanta, USA (group)
1991 Rated RX: Pathological Conditions, New Visions Gallery, Atlanta, USA (group)
1991 One/Another, North Arts Center, Atlanta, USA (group)

Literature
2009 Lewis, Richard. Lewis, Susan I., The Power of Art (2nd Ed) c. Thomson Wadsworth
2008 Betti, Claudia and Sale, Teel. Drawing: A Contemporary Approach, c. Thomson Wadsworth
2008 Stations, 100 Meisterwerke Zeitgenossischer Kunst, c. Monopol, Dumont
2008 Förlust/Loss, exhibition catalogue, c. WANÅS Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden
2008 Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, exhibition catalogue, c. Dartmouth College
2008 Schaffner, Ingrid. And Kuoni, Carin: The Puppet Show, exhibition catalogue, c. Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania
2007 Geopolitics of the Animation, exhibtion catalog, c. Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo
2007 Stallings, Tyler and Jones, Amelia. Domestic Departures, exhibition catalog, c. California State Fullerton Grand Central Art Center, Fullerton CA
2007 English, Darby. How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness, MIT Press
2007 Don't Look: Contemporary Drawings from an Alumna's Collection, Martina Yamin, class of 1958, exhibition catalogue, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley MA
2007 Contemporary, Cool and Collected, The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina
2007 Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, February 18 - May 13; ARC/ Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, France, June 20 - September 9, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, November 11 - February 3; Hammer Museum, February 17 - May 11, exhibition catalog, organized by Philippe Vergne, texts by Sander L. Gilman…[et al]
2007 Reilly, Maura and Nochlin, Linda, Global Feminisms, c. Merrell Publishers Ltd. 2007 in association with the Brooklyn Museum, exhibition catalogue
2007 Momentary Momentum: Animated Drawings, exhibition catalogue, c.Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, UK
2007 Once upon a time there was a King. The Contemporary Fable, exhibition catalog, c. Arcos: Museo d’arte contemporanea Sannio, Benevento, Italy
2007 Kara Walker: After the Deluge, Kara Walker, Rizzoli International Publications
2007 Segal, Richard D. and Monica M. Contemporary Realism: The Seavest Collection, c. Richard D Segal and Monica M. Segal
2007 Anastas, Rhea and Brenson, Michael, Witness to her Art, c. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2007 Belcove, Julie. “History Girl,” W Magazine, March 2007, pp. 406-412
2007 Yablonsky, Linda. “Kara Walker,” Art & Auction, February 2001, pp. 46-52
2007 Fogle, Douglas. “Looking Forward,” Frieze, Jan-Feb 2007, p. 138
2007 Richard, Frances. Kara Walker at Walker Art Center, Previews, Artforum, January 2007, p. 97
2007 Falconer, Morgan. “Screen Time: Kara Walker,” Art Review, January 2007, p.30
2007 Scott, Andrea K. ‘The Best and Worst of 2006,” Time Out New York, Dec 28-Jan 3, 2007
2007 Badia, Montse, Fantasmagoria, Fundacion ICO, Madrid c. 2007 exhibition catalog ISBN: 9788493468460
2007 Bishop, Janet. “Take 2: Women Revisiting Art History,” c. 2007 Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA,
2006 Epstein, Edward. “Philadelphia: Fables,” Art Papers, January/February 2007, p.64
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2006 Corwin, Sharon. Skowhegan 60 Years: School of Painting and Sculpture, c. Colby College
2006 Sims, Lowery Stokes, Hulser, Kathleen, Copeland, Cynthia R. Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery, exhibition catalog, The New York Historical Society, NY, NY
2006 Hoffman, Jens: Surprise, Surprise, exhibition catalogue, Institute of Contemporary Art, London.
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
2004 Shaw, Gwendolyn Dubois. Seeing the Unspeakable: The Art of Kara Walker Duke University Press, Durham NC
2004 Modern Art, Sam Hunter, John Jacobus, Daniel Wheeler, Third Edition, c. Pearson/Prentice Hall
2004 Artes Mundi Exhibition: Wales International Visual Art Prize, c. National Museum, Cardiff, Wales
2004 Heinrich, Barbara, In Erster Linie, Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel, Germany
2004 Grub for Sharks: A Concession to the Negro Populace, exhibition Brochure, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, U.K
2004 Nous Venons en Paix…, exhibition catalog, curated by Pierre Landry, Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Canada
2004 Mazow, Leo G.: Picturing the Banjo, Pennsylvania State University
2003 Heller, Nancy G., Women Artists, Abbeville Press, New York
2003 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
2003 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
2003 Barrett, Terry. Interpreting Art: Reflecting, Wondering, and Responding, McGraw Hill, New York, NY
2003 McPherson, Tara. Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender, and Nostalgia, in the Imagined South, Duke University Press, Durham and New York
2003 Schoonmaker, Trevor. Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, exhibition catalog, The New Museum, New York, NY
2002 Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, exhibition Catalog, edited by Kari Dahlgren, Trisha Beck
2002 Kara Walker
Kunstverein Hannover, Germany
2002 Tempo
MoMAQNS, New York
2002 Kara Walker, Slavery! Slavery!
International Arts and Artists, Washington DC. (Catalog for the 25th International Bienal of Sao Pãolo.)
2002 Kara Walker
Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
2001 the americans. new art
Barbicon Gallery, Barbicon Centre, Publ. Booth-Clibborn Editions, London
2000 Drawing on the Figure: Works on Paper of the 1990s from the Manilow Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2000 Kara Walker: Fantasies of Disbelief
exhibition brochure, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, USA
2000 This is Not the Place
(exhibition catalogue), Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, USA
1999 Re/Righting History; Counternarratives by Contemporary African-American Artists
(exhibition catalogue): Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, USA
1999 An Interview with Kara Walker
Capp Street Project: Kara Walker (exhibition catalogue), CCAC, Oakland, USA
1999 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, USA
1998 Secret Victorians, Contemporary Artists and a 19th-Century Vision
Exhibition catalogue. Traveling exhibition organized by the Hayward Gallery, London, England
1998 Strange Days
Exhibition catalogue, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1997 Kara Walker, Upon My Many Masters - An Outline
Exhibition catalog. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
1997 1997 Biennial
Exhibition catalog, Whitney Museum of American Art, USA
1997 Kara Walker
Exhibition catalogue. Design and text by the artist. The Renaissance Society
1997 Walker, Hamsa. 'Cut It Out', Renaissance Society exhibition catalogue
1997 Armstrong, Elizabeth. '(No Place) Like Home' Walker Art Center exhibition catalogue
1997 Hannaham, James. 'The Shadow Knows...' New Histories exhibition catalogue, ICA, Boston, MA
1997 Szabo, Julie. 'Kara Walker's Shock Art' New York Times Magazine March 23
1996 Golden, Telma. text for 'Oral Mores: A Post bellum Shadow Play' ArtForum September
1996 La Belle et la Bete: Un Choix de Juenes Artists Americainsm
exhibition catalog
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