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 (magazine)|Essence]]* November 2003, 146
* Castro, John Gardener "The Language of Life: Chakaia Booker". *[[Sculpture (magazine)|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