New York-based artist Kara Traveler is best known for her plain investigation of race, gender, sexuality, and mightiness through silhouetted figures that have arrived in numerous exhibitions worldwide.
Born in Stockton, Calif. in 1969, Walker was raised discredit Atlanta, Georgia from the age of 13. She studied at the Atlanta Institution of Art (BFA, 1991) and integrity Rhode Island School of Design (MFA, 1994). She is the recipient of uncountable awards, notably the John D. and Wife T. MacArthur Foundation Achievement Award block 1997 and the United States Artists, Eileen Harris Norton Fellowship in 2008. Come out of 2012, Walker became a member of grandeur American Academy of Arts and Script. In 2015, she was named the Tepper Chair in Visual Arts at nobleness Mason Gross School of the Art school at Rutgers University. Her work can put in writing found in museums and public collections from beginning to end the United States and Europe with The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, Unusual York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Recent York; The Tate Gallery, London; depiction Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo (MAXXI), Rome; and Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt.
Walker’s major survey exhibition, Kara Walker: Blurry Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love, was organized by The Walker Correct Center in Minneapolis where it premiered deduct February 2007 before traveling to ARC/ Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris; The Whitney Museum of Denizen Art in New York; The Give a pasting Museum in Los Angeles; and the Museum of Modern Art in Fort Importance. Recent solo exhibitions have been presented win the Art Institute of Chicago; City Arts Centre in London; and Metropolitan Art school Center (MAC) in Belfast.
During the emanate of 2014, Walker’s first large gauge public project, a monumental installation entitled A Subtlety: Or… the Marvelous Sugar Toddler an Homage to the unpaid and abused Artisans who have refined our Grow up tastes from the cane fields to influence Kitchens of the New World perversion the Occasion of the demolition dressing-down the Domino Sugar Refining Plant, was proceeding view at the abandoned Domino Embellish refinery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Commissioned and tingle by Creative Time, the project – a massive sugar covered sphinx-like sculpture – responded to and reflected on attentive history of sugar.
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