Kara Walker

Kara Elizabeth Walker (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la silimiin goli November biɛɣ'pishi ni ayobu dali yuuni 1969) nyɛla  Americanima nucheeni baŋda. Walker nyɛla ŋun daa deegi MacArthur fellowship pini yuuni 1997, saha shɛli o ni daa nyɛ yuun pihita ayi ka, o daa leei zaɣ'poli ŋun deegi pini ŋɔ. Ŋun nyɛ Tepper Chair zaŋ n-ti nucheeni baŋsim bɔhimbu yaɣili Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University tum yuuni 2015.

Walker nyɛla ŋun pahi Black American nucheeni baŋdiba ban gaŋdu ni.

Piligu biɛhigu mini shikuru baŋsim
Walker nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so yuuni 1969 tiŋ yuli booni Stockton, California. O ba Larry Walker daa nyɛla pɛnta pɛnta. O ma Gwendolyn daa nyɛla "administrative assistant". 

Exhibitions
Walker's tuuli museum survey, yuuni 2007 nyɛla Philippe Vergne ni daa niŋ shɛli zaŋ n-ti Walker Art Center din be Minneapolis ka daa chaŋ Whitney Museum din be New York, Hammer Museum din be Los Angeles n-ti pahi ARC/Musee d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris.

Solo exhibitions

2007: "Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love"- Walker Art Center
 2013: "Kara Walker, Rise Up Ye Mighty Race!"- The Art Institute of Chicago
 2013: We at the Camden Arts Centre are Exceedingly Proud to present an Exhibition of Capable Artworks by the Notable Hand of the Celebrated American, Kara Elizabeth Walker, Negress, Camden Art Centre, London (toured to the MAC, Belfast in 2014)
2014: "A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby, an Homage to the unpaid and overworked Artisans who have refined our Sweet tastes from the cane fields to the Kitchens of the New World on the Occasion of the demolition of the Domino Sugar Refining Plant," Creative Time, Brooklyn, NY.
 2016: "The Ecstasy of St. Kara," Cleveland Museum of Art.
 2017: "Sikkema Jenkins and Co. is Compelled to Present the Most Astounding And Important Painting Show of the Fall Art Show Viewing Season!", Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY.Pinckney, Darryl, "Black Lives Matter" (on "Kara Walker: Sikkema Jenkins and Co. is Compelled to present The most Astounding and Important Painting show of the fall Art Show viewing season!"), "New York Review of Books," November 9, 2017.
2019: Untitled – Hyundai Commission, Tate Modern.
  2021: "A Black Hole is Everything a Star Longs to Be," Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
  2021-21: Kara Walker: Cut to the Quick, Cincinnati  Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
  2023: Kara Walker: Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), New york Historical Society Museum and Library, New York, NY

Collections
Walker "public collections" shɛŋa nyɛ Minneapolis Institute of Art mini Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis, Minnesota);  Tate Collection, London;  Pérez Art Museum Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (Madison, WI),  Menil Collection, Houston; n-ti pahi Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, Virginia. 

Maŋmaŋ biɛigu 
O tuma piligu, Walker nyɛla ŋun daa  be Providence, Rhode Island ni o yidana ŋun nyɛ German bilichini Klaus Bürgel,Julie L. Belcove (March 2007), History Girl  W.Klaus Bürgel, January 27 - March 17, 1999  Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco. bɛ daa niŋla amiliya yuuni 1996. Yuuni 997, o daa dɔɣi la paɣa.Curtis, Cathy (November 12, 1997), "Finding Direction: A Fantasy Self Put Artist Kara Walker on the Path to Personal, Professional Identity", "Los Angeles Times."Doreen St. Félix (April 16, 2017), "Kara Walker's Next Act", New York Magazine. Bɛ daa luhi ka wurim yuuni 2010.Blake Gopnik (April 25, 2014), "Rarely One for Sugarcoating: Kara Walker Creates a Confection at the Domino Refinery", The New York Times. Bin din gbaai yuuni 2017, Walker nyɛla ninvuɣ so anfooni yaara ŋun lahi nyɛ sinii yaara Ari Marcopoulos ni daa laɣiri so.

Further reading
Articles
 D'Arcy, David. "Kara Walker Kicks Up a Storm," "Modern Painters" (April 2006).
 Garrett, Shawn-Marie. "Return of the Repressed," "Theater" 32, no. 2 (Summer 2002).
 Kazanjian, Dodie. "Cut it Out," "Vogue" (May 2005).
 Szabo, Julia. "Kara Walker's Shock Art," "New York Times Magazine" 146, no. 50740 (March 1997).
 Walker, Hamza. "Kara Walker: Cut it Out," "Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art" no. 11/12 (Fall/Winter 2000).
 Als, Hilton. "The Shadow Act," "The New Yorker", October 8, 2007
 Als, Hilton. "The Sugar Sphinx," "The New Yorker", May 8, 2014
 Scott, Andrea K. "Kara Walker's Ghosts of Future Evil", the "New Yorker", September 9, 2017

Non-fiction books and catalogues
 Barrett, Terry. "Interpreting Art: Reflecting, Wondering, and Responding", New York: McGraw Hill (2002).
 Berry, Ian, Darby English, Vivian Patterson, Mark Reinhardt, eds. Narratives of a Negress, Boston: MIT Press (2003).
 Carpenter, Elizabeth and Joan Rothfuss. "Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of A Whole: Walker Art Center Collections". Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2005.
 Géré, Vanina. "Kara Walker", October Files series, The MIT Press (2022). https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544474/kara-walker/
 Jacobs, Harriet. "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" (1858).
 Shaw, Gwendolyn Dubois. "Seeing the Unspeakable: The Art of Kara Walker", Durham and London: Duke University Press (2004). http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55008318
 Vergne, Philippe, et al. "Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love". Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2007. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/602217956
 Walker, Kara E. "Kara Walker: After the Deluge". New York: Rizzoli, 2007. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/144225309
 Walker, Kara E., Olga Gambari, and Richard Flood. Kara Walker: A Negress of Noteworthy Talent. Torino: Fondazione Merz, 2011. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/768397358

Web sources
 The Art Story: Kara Walker, Modern Art Insight. 2016

Notes

Kundivihira

 Goldbaum, Karen, ed. "Kara Walker: Pictures From Another Time." Seattle: Marquand Books, Inc. 
Smith, Zadie. "What Do We Want History to Do to Us?" "The New York Review of Books", February 27, 2020. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/02/27/kara-walker-what-do-we-want-history-to-do-to-us/
 Vergne, Phillppe. "Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love." Minneapolis: Walker Art Center. 

External links

 Kara Walker website
 The "Time" 100: "Time" magazine's profile of Walker
 Biography, interviews, essays, artwork images and video clips  from PBS series Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century - Season 2 (2003)
 Kara E. Walker's Song of the South  at REDCAT
 Kara Walker at Ocula
Kara Walker at Smithsonian American Art Museum

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