kara walker
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
read
- Kara Walker Recasts America's Colonial Past in Colour — frieze, 2026
- SFMOMA Announces New Details Regarding Major Commission by Kara Walker — sfmoma, 2024
- Turbine Hall artist Kara Walker: 'Apparently, the only thing I am is black' — the guardian, 2019
- An interview with Kara Walker — smarthistory, sfmoma, 2020
- Kara Walker — electra magazine, fundação edp, 2020
watch
- A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby — art21, 2014
- Sending Out A Signal — art21, with jason moran, 2018
- Starting Out, Kara Walker — art21, 2014
- Kara Walker in "Stories" — art21, 2003
- Artist Kara Walker talks to curator about her work — hammer museum, 2008
hear
- Silhouettist Kara Walker on early fame and symbols of Black servitude — helga, wnyc studios, 2023
- Kara Walker Talks with Thelma Golden — the new yorker radio hour, 2021
- Podcast: Kara Walker — art21 magazine, 2008
- Kara Walker Rattles Art World Again — npr, 2008