Kara Walker

Quick Facts

Full Name	Kara Walker
Occupation	Artist
Date Of Birth	Nov 26, 1969(1969-11-26)
Age	55
Birthplace	Stockton
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Scorpio

Kara Walker Biography

Kara Walker is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on November 26, 1969 in Stockton, California, United States. The artist is known for her black-and-white silhouettes, this renowned collage artist made a work called The Means to an End The Shadow Drama of five Acts (1995) in addition to was mounted The Emancipation of the Past: Kara Walker’s Tales of Slavery and Power (2014) as well as a variety of other shows.

Popular performer Pop artist Andy Warhol is one of her major influences. is one of her main influences.

According to The New York Times art critic Holland Cotter, “Nothing about [Walker’s] very early life would seem to have predestined her for this task. Born in 1969, she grew up in an integrated California suburb, part of a generation for whom the uplift and fervor of the civil rights movement and the want-it-now anger of Black Power were yesterday’s news.” Walker moved to her father’s native Georgia at the age of 13, when he accepted a position at Georgia State University. This was a culture shock for the young artist: “In sharp contrast with the widespread multi-cultural environment Walker had enjoyed in coastal California, Stone Mountain still held Ku Klux Klan rallies. At her new high school, Walker recalls, “I was called a ‘nigger’, told I looked like a monkey, accused (I didn’t know it was an accusation) of being a ‘Yankee.'”

Walker was born in Stockton, California, in 1969. She lived with her father, Larry Walker (b. 1935), who worked as a painter and professor. Kara’s mom Gwendolyn worked as an administrative assistant. Reflecting on her father’s influence, Walker recalls: “One of my earliest memories involves sitting on my dad’s lap in his studio in the garage of our house and watching him draw. I remember thinking: ‘I want to do that, too,’ and I pretty much decided then and there at age 2½ or 3 that I was an artist just like Dad.”

The daughter of an teacher and artist Larry Walker, she spent her childhood between California in California and Georgia. Prior to divorce her marriage to teacher of German descent Klaus Burgel produced a daughter.

Kara Walker Net Worth

Kara Walker is one of the richest Artist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kara Walker 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After having graduated at the Atlanta College of Art and the Rhode Island School of Design She began her climb to fame as an artist by creating the mural Gone, a Historical Romance of the Civil War as It Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs of a Young Negress and her Heart.

She was a professor for Rutgers University as well as Columbia University and Rutgers University.

Walker’s silhouette images work to bridge unfinished folklore in the Antebellum South, raising identity and gender issues for African-American women in particular. However, because of her confrontational approach to the topic, Walker’s artwork is reminiscent of Andy Warhol’s Pop Art during the 1960s (indeed, Walker says she adored Warhol growing up as a child). Her nightmarish yet fantastical images incorporate a cinematic feel. Walker uses images from historical textbooks to show how enslaved African-Americans were depicted during Antebellum South. The silhouette was typically a genteel tradition in American art history; it was often used for family portraits and book illustrations. Walker carried on this portrait tradition but used them to create characters in a nightmarish world, a world that reveals the brutality of American racism and inequality.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Kara Walker Dating?

According to our records, Kara Walker married to Klaus Bürgel. As of December 1, 2023, Kara Walker’s is not dating anyone.

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Early in her career, Walker lived in Providence, Rhode Island with her husband, German-born jewelry professor Klaus Bürgel, whom she married in 1996. In 1997, she gave birth to a daughter. The couple separated and their divorce was finalized in 2010. As of 2017, Walker is in a relationship with photographer and filmmaker Ari Marcopoulos.

Facts & Trivia

Kara Ranked on the list of most popular Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Kara Walker celebrates birthday on November 26 of every year.

For the season 1998/1999 in the Vienna State Opera Kara Walker designed a large-scale picture (176 m) as part of the exhibition series “Safety Curtain”, conceived by museum in progress. In 2009, Walker curated volume 11 of Merge Records’, Score!. Invited by fellow artist Mark Bradford in 2010 to develop a set of free lesson plans for K-12 teachers at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Walker offered a lesson that had students collaborating on a story by exchanging text messages.

What is the significance of Kara Walker's art?

Walker’s images are really about racism in the present, and the vast social and economic inequalities that persist in dividing America. More like riddles than one-liners, these are complex, multi-layered works that reveal their meaning slowly and over time.

What are 3 interesting facts about Kara Walker?

• She is the second youngest recipient of the John D. …
• She writes on a typewriter, not a laptop. …
• Much of her art has been constructed from the viewpoint of “Kara Elizabeth Walker, an emancipated Negress and a leader in her cause.” She has also gone by many other names.

Where is Kara Walker now?

A 1997 recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, Walker was the United States representative to the 2002 Bienal de São Paulo. Walker currently lives in New York , where she is on the faculty of the MFA program at Columbia University.

How much does Kara Walker Art cost?

Kara Walker’s work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 156 USD to 529,200 USD , depending on the size and medium of the artwork.

Why does Kara Walker use silhouettes?

Walker made it clear that her intent as an artist was not to create pleasing images or to raise questions with easy answers. She also explained her use of the silhouette by stating that “the silhouette says a lot with very little information, but that’s also what the stereotype does.”