KARA WALKER

Kara Walker (*1969, Stockton, USA) was raised in Atlanta and lives and works in New York. A retrospective of her work was organised by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA (2007) and traveled to ARC/Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris; Whitney Museum, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and Museum of Modern Art in Fort Worth, Texas. Other solo exhibitions include those at the Domino Sugar Refinery, Brooklyn, organised by Creative Time, New York (2014); Camden Arts Centre, London (2013); Art Institute of Chicago (2013); Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland (2011); and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2006). Walker’s Katastwóf Karavan was recently presented as part of Prospect.4, New Orleans, and other major group exhibitions include America Is Hard to See at the Whitney Museum, New York (2015); Remembering is Not Enough, MAXXI, Rome (2013); the 11^th Havana Biennial (2012); the 2007 Venice Biennale and the 1997 Whitney Biennial.