Kara Walker

About Kara Walker

This notable collage artist, known for her black paper silhouettes, created The Means to an End: A Shadow Drama in Five Acts (1995) and curated Emancipating the Past: Kara Walker's Tales of Slavery and Power (2014), among other exhibitions.

Kara Elizabeth Walker is a contemporary American painter, glossist, printer, installation artist, filmmaker and teacher, an explorer of race, gender, sexuality, violence and identity in your work. She is best known for her table painting cut out of black paper the size of a coin. Walker has been the Tepper President of Visual Arts at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University since 2015.

Education	Atlanta College of Art, Rhode Island School of Design
Notable work	Darkytown Rebellion, no place (like home), A Subtlety
Known for	Conceptual art, multimedia art, text art, painting, printmaking, collage
Born	Kara Elizabeth Walker, November 26, 1969, Stockton, California, U.S.

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Trivia

She accepted professorships at both Columbia University and Rutgers University.

Kara Walker before fame

She began her journey to creative renown after graduating from the Atlanta College of Art and the Rhode Island School of Design with a mural titled Gone, An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart.

Achievement of Kara Walker

Professorships at Columbia University and Rutgers University were offered to her.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Kara Walker family life

She grew up in California and Georgia, the daughter of artist and teacher Larry Walker. Her marriage to German-born teacher Klaus Burgel produced a daughter before terminating in divorce.

Associations of Kara Walker

Andy Warhol, the pop artist, is one of her key influences.

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