Chakaia Booker

Chakaia Booker (dɔɣi o la yuuni 1953 ni, tiŋ yuli booni Newark, New Jersey) o nyɛla nucheeni tuun tumdi ŋun be binyɛra kpebu polo,  dini ka silimiingi bɔli ni   sculptor la. O tuma ni nyɛla yaɣa pam ni mali shɛli n kuri bukaata nima,  ka di lahi nyɛla din tooi zoogi tinsini kamani  United States, Europe, Africa, n ti pahi Asia.  Booker nyɛ ŋun daa be yuuni 2000 Whitney Biennial la ni, ka deegi Guggenheim Fellowship yuuni 2005 ni, nti pahi  American Academy of Arts and Letters kpaŋmaŋ pini din jendi nucheeni tuma yuuni 2001.  Booker nyɛla ŋun be New York City’s East Village ka tumdi tuma ni,  binshɛɣu din gbaagi o piili ha dingbaagi yuma 1980s ka daa yoogi o tuma  Allentown, Pennsylvania tingban ni.

 O tuma nim din yina pam zama ni 

Shhh (1992), Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park and Museum, Hamilton, Ohio
Mother and Child (1994), Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Blue Bell (1998), Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
Egress (c. 2000), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Sweet Dreams (2000), Brooklyn Museum, New York
When Thoughts Collide (2000), Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York
Acid Rain (2001), National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
El Gato (2001), Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
India Blue (2001), Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan
It's Like This (2001), Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
Little Red Riding Hood (2001), Philander Smith College, Little Rock, Arkansas
Raw Attraction (2001), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Urban Butterfly (2001), Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Urban Mask (2001), National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution. Washington, D.C.
Untitled (2002), Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee
A Moment in Time (2004), Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, New York
Echoing Factors (2004), Brooklyn College Library, City University of New York
Quality Time (2004), Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence; Whitney Museum, New York; and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Rendezvous (2004), Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Urban Excursion (2004), Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Position Preferred (2006), McNay Art Museum, San Antonio
Remembering Columbia (2006), NASA Art Program, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, D.C.
Four Twenty One (2010), David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, College Park; and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Untitled (2011), Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts; and Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The Liquidity of Legacy (2016), National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

 Awards, commissions, and residencies 

 Selected awards and residencies 

 Merit Award in Public Art, Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc., Indianapolis, 2008
 Fellowship for Fine Arts, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York City, 2005
 Design Award, Art Commission of the City of New York, New York City, 2005
 Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York City, 2002
 Arts and Letters Award, Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, 2001
 Grant, Anonymous Was A Woman Award, New York City, 2000
 Inclusion in the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, 2000
 Award, Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. Art Fund, New York City, 1999
 Gregory Millard Fellow: Sculpture, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York City, 1997
 The Joan Mitchell Foundation, Painters and Sculptors Grant, New York City, 1995
 Artist-in-Residence, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, 1995
 Commission, NASA Art Program, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., 1994
 Therese Ralston McCabe Connor Award, City College of New York, New York City, 1992
 Grant, Artists Space, New York City, 1988

 Selected commissions 

 National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C., 2016
 Millennium Park, Chicago, 2016
 Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C., 2015
 Weeksville Heritage Center, Brooklyn, 2013

 Kundivihira 

 Karim pahi 

 Arango, Jorge. "Elevating the Everyday: Sculpture Chakaia Booker". Essence November 2003, 146
 Castro, John Gardener "The Language of Life: Chakaia Booker". Sculpture (Washington D.C.) January/February 2003, 28-33
 "Chakaia Booker" , 2007, Decordova Sculpture Park Online, 2007, (21 March 2007)
 "Chakaia Booker", 2007 Marlborough Gallery Online, 2007  (21 March 2007)
 Glueck, Grace; "Art InReview; Chakaia Booker," The New York Times, 16 March 2001,
 Lewis, Samella S.; African American Art and Artists. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990
 Nichols, Mathew Guy; "Chakaia Booker:Material Matters", Art In America, June/July 2004, 164-169
 Sanders, Phil and David Krut Projects (Gallery). Chakaia Booker: Print Me. New York: David Krut Publishing. 2012
 Wei, Lilly; "Queen of Rubber Soul", Art News, January 2002, 88-90
 Wilkinson, Michelle; Material girls : contemporary Black women artists: Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, 2011, 18-19

 External links 

 Chakaia Booker website