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Kara Walker Biography
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Born in Stockton, CA
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1991 |
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B.F.A. in Painting/Printmaking, Atlanta College of Art
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1994 |
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Awards of Excellence II, Rhode Island School of Design
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1994 |
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M.F.A. in Painting/Printmaking, Rhode Island School of Design
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1997 |
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John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Grant
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The Lucelia Artist Award, The Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Lives and works in New York
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2008 - 2009
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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)
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2008 - 2009
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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
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2008 - 2009
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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)
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2008
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Freedom: American Sculpture, The Hague Sculpture 2008, The Hague, The Netherlands, June 6- August 31
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2008
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The Black Road, CAC Málaga, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Spain, June; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, November
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2008
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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
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2008
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Las Vegas Collects Contemporary, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV, USA , May 23 - Oct 26 (group)
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2008
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Förlust/Loss, WANÅS Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden, May 18 - October 19 (group)
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2007 - 2008
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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)
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2007 - 2008
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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)
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2007 - 2008
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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)
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2007
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The Feminine Mysterious, Red Dot Contemporary, West Palm Beach, FL, USA, February 17-March 17 (group)
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2007
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Haunted Screens, UB Art Gallery, Center for the Arts, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA, March 29-May 19 (group)
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2007
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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
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2007
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Don't Look: Contemporary Drawings from an Alumna's Collection; Martina Yamin, class of 1958; Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, MA, USA (group)
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2007
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Taking Aim: Selections from the Elliot L. Perry Collection, RClough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, USA, September 7- October 11 (group)
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2007
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Contemporary, Cool and Collected, The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, October 20- December 30 (group)
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2007
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Momentary Momentum: Animated Drawings, Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, UK (group)
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2007
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52nd International Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (group)
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2007
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Repicturing the Past, Picturing the Present, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, June 13- November 5 (group)
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2007
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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)
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2007
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Take 2: Women Revisiting Art History, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA, USA, January 17- March 15 (group)
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2007
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Fantasmagoria, Fundacion ICO, Madrid, Spain, January 18 - March 18
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2007
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Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, USA, January 26 – March 18
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2006 - 2007
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Meditations in an Emergency, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI, USA, October 28 – April 29
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2006 - 2007
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Into Me / Out of Me, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany, November 26 – January 28
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2006 - 2007
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Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery, The New York Historical Society, NY, USA, June 16- January 7
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2006 - 2007
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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
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2006 - 2007
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Brighton Photo Biennial: Voodoo Macbeth, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, UK, October 7 – January 7
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2006 - 2007
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Tracing Shadows, The Israel Museum, The Ruth Young Wing, Jerusalem, Israel
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2006 - 2007
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Once upon a Time: The Contemporary Fable, Arcos, Museo d’arte Contemporanea, Sannio Campania, Italy, October 15 - February 28 (group)
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2006
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Sikkema Jenkins & Co. New York, NY, USA, March 4 – April 1
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2006
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Kara Walker at the Met: After the Deluge, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA, March 21 – August 6
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2006
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New York, New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Cinema, Performance, Photography and Video, Grimaldi Forum Monaco, Monte Carlo, July 14 – September 10
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2006
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Black Alphabet: Contexts of Contemporary African American Art, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland, September 23 – November 19
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2006
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Fables, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, September 9 - December 17
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2006
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Liquid Paper, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA, USA, June 30 - August 6
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2006
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Surprise! Surprise! ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London, UK, August 2 - September 10
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2006
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Into Me/Out of Me, PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, MOMA Affiliate, Long Island City, New York, USA
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2006
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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
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2006
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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
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2006
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Dark, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, curated by Jan Grosfeld and Rein Wolfs, February 18- April 17
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2006
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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
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2006
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Skowhegan 60 Years: School of Painting and Sculpture, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME, USA, July 22- October 29
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2006
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All the Best: The Deutsche Bank Collection and Zaha Hadid, The Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, September 1 – November
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2005
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Song of the South, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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2005
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Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
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2005
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Kara Walker, Testimony Brent Sikkema, New York, USA (solo)
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2005
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The World is a Stage Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (group)
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2004 - 2005
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Site Santa Fe's Fifth International Biennial Curated by Robert Storr, Santa Fe, USA (group)
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2004 - 2005
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Monument to Now, The Dakis Joannou Collection The DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece (group)
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2004
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Dana Schutz, Amy Sillman, Kara Walker Brent Sikkema, New York, USA (group)
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2004
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Provocations: Selections from the Permanent Collection The Bronx Museum of Art, New York, USA (group)
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2004
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Nous Venons en Paix... Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Canada (group)
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2004
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Grub for Sharks: A Concession to the Negro Populace, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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2003
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Centro Nazionale per le Arti Contemporanee, Rome, Italy
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2003
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Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, traveled to Williams College Art Museum, Williamstown, MA, USA
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2003
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Narratives of a Negress: Kara Walker Tang teaching Museum at Skidmore College, Williamstown, USA (solo)
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2003
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Kara Walker, drawings Brent Sikkema, New York, USA (solo)
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2002 - 2003
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Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA (group)
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2002
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Tempo, MoMAQNS, New York, USA (group)
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2002
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Telling Tales: Narrative Impulses in Recent Art, Tate Liverpool, UK (group)
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2002
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Nat Turner's Revelation (an Important Lesson from our Negro Past You will Likley Forget to Remember), Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany (solo)
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2002
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An Abbreviated Emancipation The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Michigan, USA (solo)
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2002
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Slavery!, Slavery!, 25th International Bienal of Sao Paolo, Brazil (solo)
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2002
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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)
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2002
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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)
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2002
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Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA (solo)
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2001
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American Primitive, Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
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2001
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Disturbing Allegories, Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, USA (solo)
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2001
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The Emancipation Approximation, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel (solo)
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2001
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Form Follows Fiction, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy (group)
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2001
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Six Contemporary Artists, The Clifford Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, USA (group)
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2001
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The Americans, Barbican Art Galleries, Barbican Centre, London, UK (group)
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2001
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New to the Modern: Recent Acquisitions from the Department of Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (group)
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2001
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The Print World, Ljubljana Biennial 2001, Ljubljana, Slovenia (group)
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2001
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W, Musée des Beaux – Arts, Cole, France (group)
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2001
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Parkett Collaborations & Editions Since 1984, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (group)
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2001
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New Settlements, Nikolaj Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark (group)
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2001
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Secret Victorians, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA (group)
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2001
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Locating Drawing, Lawing Gallery, Houston, USA (group)
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2001
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SchattenRisse, Silhouetten und Cutouts, Kunstbau Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany (group)
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2001
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Ornament and Abstraction, The Foundation Beyler, Basel, Switzerland (group)
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2001
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Waterworks, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn, Sweden (group)
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2000
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Blurry Lines, John Michael Kholer Arts Center, Sherboyan, USA (group)
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2000
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Das Gedäschtnis der Kunst: History and Memory in Contemporary Art, Historic Museum of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany (group)
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2000
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The Power of Narration, Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castello, Spain (group)
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2000
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Point of Reference, Frederick Hayes, Glenn Ligon, Gary Simmons, Kara Walker, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, USA (group)
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2000
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Drawing on the Figure: Works on Paper of the 1990s from the Manilow Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA (group)
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2000
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Strength and Diversity: A Celebration of African-American Artists, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA (group)
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2000
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Age of Influence: Reflections in the Mirror of American Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA (group)
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2000
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This is Not the Place, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, USA (group)
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2000
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00, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA (group)
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2000
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Kara Walker, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, USA (solo)
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1999
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Why I Like White Boys, an Illustrated Novel by Kara E. Walker Negress, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
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1999
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Kara Walker, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, USA (solo)
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1999
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Another Fine Mess, Brent Sikkema, New York, USA (solo)
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1999
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African't, Galleri Index, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
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1999
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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)
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1999
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Istanbul Biennial: The Passion and the Wave, Istanbul, Turkey (group)
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1999
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Looking Forward, Looking Black, Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA (group)
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1999
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Re/Righting History; Counternarratives by Contemporary African-American Artists, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, USA (group)
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1999
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Other Narratives, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA (group)
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1999
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Art-Worlds in Dialogue, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (group)
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1999
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Carnegie International 1999/2000, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA (group)
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1999
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Glenn Ligon & Kara Walker, Brent Sikkema, New York, USA (group)
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1999
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Au-Delà, Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany (group)
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1998
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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)
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1998
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Global Vision, New Art from the 90's, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece (group)
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1998
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Strange Days, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (group)
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1998
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Postcards From Black America, De Beyerd, Breda and The Frans Hals Museum, Harlem, The Netherlands (group)
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1998
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Arturo Herrera and Kara Walker, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK (group)
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1998
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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)
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1998
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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)
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1998
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Kara Walker: Prints, The Print Center, Philadelphia, USA (solo)
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1998
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Opera Safety Curtain for 1998-99 Season, Vienna State Opera House, Vienna, Austria (solo)
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1998
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Kara Walker Wooster Gardens/Brent Sikkema, New York, USA (solo)
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1998
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Kara Walker The Forum. St. Louis, USA (solo)
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1997
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Upon My Many Masters - An Outline, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA (solo)
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1997
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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)
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1997
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Kara Walker Huntington Beach Arts Center, Huntington Beach, USA (solo)
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1997
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‘Pagan' Stories: The Situations of Narrative in Recent Art, Apex Art, New York, USA (group)
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1997
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Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA (group)
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1997
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no place (like home), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA (group)
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1997
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Civil Progress: Life in Black America, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, USA (group)
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1997
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The Gaze, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, USA (group)
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1997
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Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA, USA
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1997
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Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA
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1997
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Center for contemporary Art, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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1997
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Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL, USA
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1997
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
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1997
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A Singular Vision: Prints from Landfall Press, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
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1997
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(No Place) Like Home, Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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1997
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Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
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1997
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Landfall Press, Twenty-Five Years of Printmaking, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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1996
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From the Bowels to the Bosom, Wooster Gardens NYC, USA
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1996
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Bernard Toale Gallery Boston, MA, USA
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1996
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Body Language, Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts Boston, MA, USA
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1996
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New Histories, ICA Boston, MA, USA
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1996
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Real, Bass Museum, Miami, USA (group)
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1996
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New Histories, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA (group)
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1996
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Conceal/Reveal, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, USA (group)
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1996
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No Doubt, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, USA (group)
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1996
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Body Language, Mills Gallery, Boston, USA (group)
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1996
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Gone With the Wind: The Fabrication and Denial of Southern Culture, The City Gallery, Atlanta, USA (group)
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1996
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From the Bowels to the Bosom, Wooster Gardens/Brent Sikkema, New York, USA (solo)
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1996
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Ol' Marster Paintin's and Silhouette Cuttings, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, USA (solo)
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1995
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The High and Soft Laughter of the Nigger Wenches At Night, Wooster Gardens/Brent Sikkema, New York, USA (solo)
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1995
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The Battle of Atlanta: Being the Narrative of a Negress in the Flames of Desire – A Reconstruction, Nexus Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, USA (solo)
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1995
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Look Away! Look Away! Look Away!, Center For Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA (solo)
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1995
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La Belle et La Bete, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (group)
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1995
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Now is the Time, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA (group)
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1995
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Landscapes, Borders, Boundaries, Nexus Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, USA (group)
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1995
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Inaugural Show, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, USA (group)
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1995
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Drawing Show, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, USA (group)
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1995
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A Drawing, Bravin Post-Lee NYC, USA
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1995
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La Belle et la Bete, Museum of Modern Art Paris, France
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1995
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Not Not, Who's There?, E.S. Vandam NYC, USA
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1995
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Now Is the Time, Tony Shafrazi Gallery NYC, USA
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1995
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Landscapes, Borders, Boundaries, Nexus Contemporary Arts Center Atlanta, GA, USA
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1995
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Inaugural Exhibition, Paul Morris Gallery NYC, USA
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1995
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Drawing Show, Bernard Toale Gallery Boston, MA, USA
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1995
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More Than Real, Gallery 400 Chicago, IL, USA
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1995
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Look Away!..., Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
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1995
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The High and Soft Laughter..., Brent Sikkema/Wooster Gardens NYC, USA
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1994
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Thesis Show, Sol Koffler Gallery Providence, RI, USA
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1994
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Selections 1994, The Drawing Center, New York, USA (group)
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1994
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Summer Group Show +2, Stienbaum/Krauss Gallery, New York, USA (group)
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1994
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An Historical Romance, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, USA (group)
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1993
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1993 Annual Invitational New Talent Exhibition, MU Gallery, Boston, USA (group)
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1993
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Rough Trade, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, USA (group)
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1993
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Angry Love, Pavilion Exhibit, Arts Festival of Atlanta, Atlanta, USA (group)
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1993
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National Black Arts Festival/Emerging Artists, Arts Exchange, Atlanta, USA (group)
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1993
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Into the Light, 1992 Nexus Biennale, Nexus Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, USA (group)
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1993
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Black Women Artists, YMI Cultural Center, Asheville, USA (group)
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1991
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Black Men: Image/Reality, New Visions Gallery, Atlanta, USA (group)
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1991
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The Naked People Show, 800 East, Atlanta, USA (group)
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1991
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Swan Song, Gallery 100, Atlanta, USA (group)
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1991
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The Earth Factory Show, Hasting Seeds Building, Atlanta, USA (group)
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1991
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Rated RX: Pathological Conditions, New Visions Gallery, Atlanta, USA (group)
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1991
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One/Another, North Arts Center, Atlanta, USA (group)
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2009
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Lewis, Richard. Lewis, Susan I., The Power of Art (2nd Ed) c. Thomson Wadsworth
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2008
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Betti, Claudia and Sale, Teel. Drawing: A Contemporary Approach, c. Thomson Wadsworth
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2008
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Stations, 100 Meisterwerke Zeitgenossischer Kunst, c. Monopol, Dumont
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2008
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Förlust/Loss, exhibition catalogue, c. WANÅS Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden
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2008
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Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, exhibition catalogue, c. Dartmouth College
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2008
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Schaffner, Ingrid. And Kuoni, Carin: The Puppet Show, exhibition catalogue, c. Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania
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2007
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Geopolitics of the Animation, exhibtion catalog, c. Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo
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2007
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Stallings, Tyler and Jones, Amelia. Domestic Departures, exhibition catalog, c. California State Fullerton Grand Central Art Center, Fullerton CA
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2007
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English, Darby. How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness, MIT Press
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2007
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Don't Look: Contemporary Drawings from an Alumna's Collection, Martina Yamin, class of 1958, exhibition catalogue, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley MA
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2007
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Contemporary, Cool and Collected, The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina
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2007
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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]
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2007
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Reilly, Maura and Nochlin, Linda, Global Feminisms, c. Merrell Publishers Ltd. 2007 in association with the Brooklyn Museum, exhibition catalogue
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2007
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Momentary Momentum: Animated Drawings, exhibition catalogue, c.Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, UK
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2007
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Once upon a time there was a King. The Contemporary Fable, exhibition catalog, c. Arcos: Museo d’arte contemporanea Sannio, Benevento, Italy
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2007
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Kara Walker: After the Deluge, Kara Walker, Rizzoli International Publications
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2007
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Segal, Richard D. and Monica M. Contemporary Realism: The Seavest Collection, c. Richard D Segal and Monica M. Segal
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2007
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Anastas, Rhea and Brenson, Michael, Witness to her Art, c. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
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2007
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Belcove, Julie. “History Girl,” W Magazine, March 2007, pp. 406-412
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2007
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Yablonsky, Linda. “Kara Walker,” Art & Auction, February 2001, pp. 46-52
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2007
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Fogle, Douglas. “Looking Forward,” Frieze, Jan-Feb 2007, p. 138
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2007
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Richard, Frances. Kara Walker at Walker Art Center, Previews, Artforum, January 2007, p. 97
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2007
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Falconer, Morgan. “Screen Time: Kara Walker,” Art Review, January 2007, p.30
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2007
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Scott, Andrea K. ‘The Best and Worst of 2006,” Time Out New York, Dec 28-Jan 3, 2007
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2007
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Badia, Montse, Fantasmagoria, Fundacion ICO, Madrid c. 2007 exhibition catalog ISBN: 9788493468460
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2007
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Bishop, Janet. “Take 2: Women Revisiting Art History,” c. 2007 Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA,
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2006
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Epstein, Edward. “Philadelphia: Fables,” Art Papers, January/February 2007, p.64
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2006
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“Fables, a Group Show of Artists at Philadelphia’s ICA” artdaily.com, November 28
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2006
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Corwin, Sharon. Skowhegan 60 Years: School of Painting and Sculpture, c. Colby College
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2006
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Sims, Lowery Stokes, Hulser, Kathleen, Copeland, Cynthia R. Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery, exhibition catalog, The New York Historical Society, NY, NY
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2006
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Hoffman, Jens: Surprise, Surprise, exhibition catalogue, Institute of Contemporary Art, London.
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2006
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Celant, Germano, and Lisa Dennison. New York, New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Cinema, Performance, Photography, and Video, exhibition catalogue, Grimaldi Forum Monaco
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2004
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Shaw, Gwendolyn Dubois. Seeing the Unspeakable: The Art of Kara Walker Duke University Press, Durham NC
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2004
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Modern Art, Sam Hunter, John Jacobus, Daniel Wheeler, Third Edition, c. Pearson/Prentice Hall
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2004
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Artes Mundi Exhibition: Wales International Visual Art Prize, c. National Museum, Cardiff, Wales
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2004
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Heinrich, Barbara, In Erster Linie, Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel, Germany
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2004
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Grub for Sharks: A Concession to the Negro Populace, exhibition Brochure, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, U.K
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2004
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Nous Venons en Paix…, exhibition catalog, curated by Pierre Landry, Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Canada
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2004
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Mazow, Leo G.: Picturing the Banjo, Pennsylvania State University
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2003
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Heller, Nancy G., Women Artists, Abbeville Press, New York
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2003
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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
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2003
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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
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2003
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Barrett, Terry. Interpreting Art: Reflecting, Wondering, and Responding, McGraw Hill, New York, NY
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2003
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McPherson, Tara. Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender, and Nostalgia, in the Imagined South, Duke University Press, Durham and New York
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2003
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Schoonmaker, Trevor. Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, exhibition catalog, The New Museum, New York, NY
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2002
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Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, exhibition Catalog, edited by Kari Dahlgren, Trisha Beck
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2002
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Kara Walker
Kunstverein Hannover, Germany
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2002
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Tempo
MoMAQNS, New York
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2002
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Kara Walker, Slavery! Slavery!
International Arts and Artists, Washington DC. (Catalog for the 25th International Bienal of Sao Pãolo.)
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2002
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Kara Walker
Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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2001
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the americans. new art
Barbicon Gallery, Barbicon Centre, Publ. Booth-Clibborn Editions, London
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2000
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Drawing on the Figure: Works on Paper of the 1990s from the Manilow Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
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2000
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Kara Walker: Fantasies of Disbelief
exhibition brochure, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, USA
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2000
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This is Not the Place
(exhibition catalogue), Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, USA
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1999
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Re/Righting History; Counternarratives by Contemporary African-American Artists
(exhibition catalogue): Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, USA
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1999
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An Interview with Kara Walker
Capp Street Project: Kara Walker (exhibition catalogue), CCAC, Oakland, USA
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1999
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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
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1998
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Secret Victorians, Contemporary Artists and a 19th-Century Vision
Exhibition catalogue. Traveling exhibition organized by the Hayward Gallery, London, England
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1998
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Strange Days
Exhibition catalogue, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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1997
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Kara Walker, Upon My Many Masters - An Outline
Exhibition catalog. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
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1997
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1997 Biennial
Exhibition catalog, Whitney Museum of American Art, USA
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1997
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Kara Walker
Exhibition catalogue. Design and text by the artist. The Renaissance Society
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1997
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Walker, Hamsa. 'Cut It Out', Renaissance Society exhibition catalogue
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1997
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Armstrong, Elizabeth. '(No Place) Like Home' Walker Art Center exhibition catalogue
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1997
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Hannaham, James. 'The Shadow Knows...' New Histories exhibition catalogue, ICA, Boston, MA
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1997
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Szabo, Julie. 'Kara Walker's Shock Art' New York Times Magazine March 23
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1996
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Golden, Telma. text for 'Oral Mores: A Post bellum Shadow Play' ArtForum September
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1996
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La Belle et la Bete: Un Choix de Juenes Artists Americainsm
exhibition catalog
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