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Kara Walker Biography
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1969 |
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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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2004 |
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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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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2007
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Take 2: Women Revisiting Art History, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA, January 17- March 15
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2007
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Fantasmagoria, Fundacion ICO, Madrid, January 18- March 18
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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, 2007; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, November 11, 2007 – February 3, 2008; Hammer Museum, February 17 – May 11, 2008.
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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, January 26 – March 18, 2007.
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2006 - 2007
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Meditations in an Emergency, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI, October 28, 2006 – April 29, 2007.
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2006 - 2007
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Into Me / Out of Me, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany, November 26, 2006 – January 28, 2007.
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2006 - 2007
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Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery, The New York Historical Society, NY, NY, June 16, 2006- January 7, 2007.
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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, December 9 2006- January 20-2007
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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, October 15, 2006- February 28, 2007 (group)
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2006
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All the Best: The Deutsche Bank Collection and Zaha Hadid, The Singapore Art Museum, September 1 – November 20, 2006
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2006
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Brighton Photo Biennial: Voodoo Macbeth, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, England, October 7, 2006 – January 7, 2007.
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2006
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Sikkema Jenkins & Co. New York, NY, March 4 – April 1, 2006.
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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, March 21 – August 6, 2006.
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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. September 9- December 17
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2006
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Liquid Paper, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA, June 30- August 6
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2006
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Surprise! Surprise! ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London, U.K. August 2- September 10, 2006
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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
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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, 2006, Act 2: Nuuk, Greenland, April 21 – May 14, 2006, Act 3: Tórshavn, The Faroe Islands, May 12 – June 4, 2006, Act 4: Rovaniemi, Sápmi/Finland, June 16 – July 9, 2006, Act 5: DVD Box Set Launch in Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo & Stockholm, November 25, 2006, Curated by Kuratorisk Aktion (Frederikke Hansen & Tone Olaf Nielsen) for NIFCA, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art
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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, January 21- May 21, 2006
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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, July 22- October 29
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2005
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Song of the South, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
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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 (solo)
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2005
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The World is a Stage Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (group)
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2004 - 2005
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Site Santa Fe's Fifth International Biennial Curated by Robert Storr, Santa Fe (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 (group)
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2004
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Dana Schutz, Amy Sillman, Kara Walker Brent Sikkema, New York (group)
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2004
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Provocations: Selections from the Permanent Collection The Bronx Museum of Art, New York (group)
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2004
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Nous Venons en Paix... Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal (group)
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2004
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Grub for Sharks: A Concession to the Negro Populace, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, U.K.
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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)
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2003
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Narratives of a Negress: Kara Walker Tang teaching Museum at Skidmore College, Williamstown (solo)
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2003
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Kara Walker, drawings Brent Sikkema, New York (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, England (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, England (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 (gr | | |