Kara Walker
Kara Walker is a Plasticien Afro-américaine, born with Stockton in California the November 26th 1969.
It was graduate in 1991 of the University of art of Atlanta (BFA) and in 1994 of the School of design of Rhode Island (MFA).
It realizes since installations, drawings, watercolours and wall-paintings, working mainly around the history of the Esclavage and its heritage in the contemporary company states-unienne. It is consequently also interested in the questions touching with the Racial discrimination, the relations between the Blacks and the White, with the master-slave reports/ratios or the segregation.
It especially known for its large cut out black silhouettes, near to is returned of a Chinese shade.
In 2007, Time Magazine classified it among the 100 most influential people of the world.
Currently, she lives with New York where she teaches visual arts with the Université of Columbia.
Personal exposures
2007-2008
- My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love ( My Enemy, My Brother, My Torturer, My Love )
- Walker Art Center, Mineapolis, the United States (February 17th - May 13rd 2007)
- Musée of modern art of the town of Paris, Paris (June 20th - September 9th 2007)
- Whitney Museum off American Art, New York, the United States (October 11th 2007 - February 3rd 2008)
- UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, the United States (February 17th - May 11th 2008)
2002
Distinctions
- 2005 : Larry Aldrich Award
- 2004 : Deutsche Bank Prize
- 1997: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Achievement Award
External bond
- Page of the exposure to the Museum of modern art of the town of Paris
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