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)
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)
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2002
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1999
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1998
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1997
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1997
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1997
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1997
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