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# kara walker
- URL: https://atelier.qxavier.com/living-inspirations/inspiration-kara-walker/
- Published: 2026-10-06T11:54:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-06T11:54:00.000Z
- Description: artist • new york
- Author: quincéy xavier
- Tags: living inspirations, #Import 2026-10-16 06:39

*artist • new york*

an artist known for cut-paper silhouettes, installations, film, and drawing that look closely at race, gender, and the history of american slavery, including *a subtlety, or the marvelous sugar baby* and *fons americanus*. she lives and works in new york and was named a macarthur fellow in 1997.

bio from [san francisco museum of modern art](https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/Kara%5FWalker/?ref=atelier.qxavier.com)

### read

- [Kara Walker Recasts America's Colonial Past in Colour](https://www.frieze.com/article/kara-walker-2026-review?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — frieze, 2026
- [SFMOMA Announces New Details Regarding Major Commission by Kara Walker](https://www.sfmoma.org/press-release/sfmoma-announces-new-details-regarding-major-commission-by-kara-walker/?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — sfmoma, 2024
- [Turbine Hall artist Kara Walker: 'Apparently, the only thing I am is black'](https://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-guardian-usa/20190924/281758451010313?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — the guardian, 2019
- [An interview with Kara Walker](https://smarthistory.org/an-interview-with-kara-walker?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — smarthistory, sfmoma, 2020
- [Kara Walker](https://electramagazine.fundacaoedp.pt/en/editions/issue-11/kara-walker?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — electra magazine, fundação edp, 2020

### watch

- [A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby](https://art21.org/watch/extended-play/kara-walker-a-subtlety-or-the-marvelous-sugar-baby-short/?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — art21, 2014
- [Sending Out A Signal](https://art21.org/watch/extended-play/kara-walker-jason-moran-sending-out-a-signal-short/?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — art21, with jason moran, 2018
- [Starting Out, Kara Walker](https://art21.org/watch/exclusive/kara-walker-starting-out-short/?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — art21, 2014
- [Kara Walker in "Stories"](https://art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s2/kara-walker-in-stories-segment/?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — art21, 2003
- [Artist Kara Walker talks to curator about her work](https://channel.hammer.ucla.edu/video/262/artist-kara-walker-talks-to-curator-about-her-work?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — hammer museum, 2008

### hear

- [Silhouettist Kara Walker on early fame and symbols of Black servitude](https://wnycstudios.org/podcasts/helga/episodes/silhouettist-kara-walker-wrestling-early-fame-and-utilizing-symbols-black-servitude?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — helga, wnyc studios, 2023
- [Kara Walker Talks with Thelma Golden](https://podscripts.co/podcasts/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/kara-walker-talks-with-thelma-golden?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — the new yorker radio hour, 2021
- [Podcast: Kara Walker](http://magazine.art21.org/2008/04/11/podcast-kara-walker/?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — art21 magazine, 2008
- [Kara Walker Rattles Art World Again](https://www.npr.org/transcripts/87985217?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — npr, 2008