Kara Walker Biography

Kara Walker is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes that examine the underbelly of America's racial and gender tensions. Her works often address such highly charged themes as power repression history race and sexuality. Born in Stockton California Walker moved to the South at age 13 when her father artist Larry Walker accepted a position at Georgia State University and her family relocated to Stone Mountain a suburb of Atlanta. Focusing on painting and printmaking in college she received her BFA from the Atlanta College of Art in 1991 and her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994. Walker was included in the 1997 Biennial exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art New York. Later that year at the age of 27 she became the youngest recipient of the prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's genius grant which launched a public controversy around her work. In 2002 she was chosen to represent the United States in the S

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