Kara WALKER
Scene from McPherson’s Death
offset lithograph/silkscreen
53” x 39”
2005
BIO
Born in 1969 in Stockton, California, Walker later moved to Atlanta, Georgia where she lived until completing her BFA at the Atlanta College of Art in 1994. Walker went on to earn her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has appeared in solo and group exhibitions in the United States and abroad, notable solo venues; the Walker Art Center, MN (2007-2008) which will travel to the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY and the Hammer, LA, CA; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY and the Tate Liverpool. She has been awarded Deutsche Bank Prize and the prestigious MacArthur Award. Work in public collections includes; the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Gallery, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Walker Art Center, among others. Walker currently teaches at Columbia University and lives and works in New York.