Kara Walker
Kara Elizabeth Walker (born November 26, 1969) is an American contemporary painter, silhouettist, printmaker, installation artist, filmmaker, and professor who explores
race,
gender,
sexuality, violence, and
identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper
silhouettes. Walker was awarded a
MacArthur fellowship in 1997, at the age of 28, becoming one of the youngest ever recipients of the award. She has been the Tepper Chair in Visual Arts at the
Mason Gross School of the Arts,
Rutgers University since 2015.
Walker is regarded as among the most prominent and acclaimed
Black American artists working today.
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