Kara Walker

http://www.pbs.org/art21/artist/walker/index.html

Artist Biography

Kara Walker was born in Stockton, California in 1969. She received a BFA from the Atlanta College of Art in 1991 and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994. The artist is best known for exploring the raw intersection of race, gender, and sexuality through her iconic, silhouetted figures.-www.pbs.org
Her retired father is a formally educated artist, a professor, and an administrator. Her mother worked as an administrative assistant and was inspired by her family to reveal her own artistic talents. Walker's education includes an MFA at Rhode Island School of Design in Painting/Printmaking, and a BFA in Painting/Printmaking at Atlanta College of Art.

Some of Walker's exhibitions have been shown at The Renaissance Society in Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_WalkerWikipedia

Kara Walker Interviews

http://www.moma.org/onlineprojects/conversations/trans_kwalker.html


Gallery Representing artist

Whitney Museum
History of the Whitney
http://www.whitney.org/www/collection/history.jsp

Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love
http://www.whitney.org/www/exhibition/kara_walker/index.html

Artist Website
http://learn.walkerart.org/karawalker