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2020mar 11 - jun 30 2020Kara WalkerTHE SOVEREIGN CITIZENS SESQUICENTENNIAL CIVIL WAR CELEBRATIONSprüth Magers Berlin
2019oct 04 - dec 21 2019Kara WalkerFrom Black and White to Living Color:
The Collected Motion Pictures and Accompanying Documents of Kara E. Walker, Artist.		Sprüth Magers London
oct 02 2019 - apr 05 2020Kara WalkerHyundai Commission Kara WalkerTate Modern,
Turbine Hall
2018apr 28 - sep 08 2018Kara WalkerKara WalkerSprüth Magers Berlin
2017oct 13 2017 - mar 11 2018Kara WalkerKara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Washington, DC
sep 07 - oct 14 2017Kara WalkerKara WalkerSikkema Jenkins & Co.,
New York, NY
jun 20 - sep 30 2017Kara WalkerKara Walker: FigaDESTE Foundation Project Space, Slaughterhouse,
Hydra, Greece
jun 17 - oct 22 2017Kara WalkerKara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)Toledo Museum of Art,
Toledo, OH
2016oct 01 2016 - mar 05 2017Kara WalkerKara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University,
Durham, NC
sep 10 - dec 31 2016Kara WalkerThe Ecstasy of St. KaraThe Cleveland Museum of Art,
Cleveland, OH
2015nov 13 2015 - jan 16 2016Kara WalkerKara Walker: NormaVictoria Miro,
London
oct 01 - nov 07 2015Kara WalkerKara Walker: Go to Hell or Atlanta, Whichever Comes FirstVictoria Miro,
London, UK
feb 12 - may 16 2015Kara WalkerA Time Most “Un” CivilDenison Museum at Denison University,
Granville, OH
jan 31 - may 31 2015Kara WalkerKara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)Daum Museum of Contemporary Art at State Fair Community College,
Sedalia, MO
jan 19 - jul 31 2015Kara WalkerKara Walker: Juxtaposition, Contemporary Specters, and Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil WarSullivan Museum and History Center at Norwich University,
Northfield, VT
jan 17 - apr 05 2015Kara WalkerKara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)Cornell Fine Art Museum at Rollins College,
Winter Park, FL
2014nov 21 2014 - jan 17 2015Kara WalkerAfterwordSikkema Jenkins & Co.,
New York, NY
sep 02 - dec 12 2014Kara WalkerKara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont,
Burlington, VT
may 10 - jul 06 2014Kara WalkerAt the behest of Creative Time Kara E. Walker has confected: A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby, an Homage to the unpaid and overworked Artisans who have refined our Sweet tastes from the cane fields to the Kitchens of the New World on the Occasion of the demolition of the Domino Sugar Refining Plant, a project of Creative TimeDomino Sugar Refinery,
Brooklyn, NY
feb 26 - aug 10 2014Kara WalkerAnything but Civil: Kara Walker’s Vision of the Old SouthSaint Louis Art Museum,
St. Louis, MO
2013oct 11 2013 - jan 05 2014Kara WalkerWe at the Camden Arts Centre/MAC are Exceedingly Proud to present an Exhibition of Capable Artworks by the Notable Hand of the Celebrated American, Kara Elizabeth Walker, NegressCamden Arts Centre,
London, UK
sep 22 2013 - jan 05 2014Kara WalkerEmancipating the Past: Kara Walker’s Tales of Slavery and PowerCrocker Art Museum,
Sacramento, CA
sep 12 - oct 05 2013Kara WalkerKara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)Pace Prints,
New York, NY
apr 12 - may 22 2013Kara WalkerThe Nigger Huck Finn Pursues Happiness Beyond the Narrow Constraints of Your Overdetermined Thesis on Freedom- Drawn and Quartered by Mister Kara Walkerberry, with Condolences to The AuthorsSikkema Jenkins & Co,
New York, NY
feb 21 - aug 11 2013Kara WalkerRise Up Ye Mighty Race!Art Institute of Chicago,
Chicago, IL
feb 15 - mar 28 2013Kara WalkerAfrican American Art Since 1950: Perspectives from the David C. Driskell CenterTaft Museum of Art,
Cincinnati, OH
jan 25 - mar 08 2013Kara WalkerKara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)Schmucker Art Gallery at Gettysburg College,
Gettysburg, PA,
jan 14 - feb 28 2013Kara WalkerEmploying Voice, Embracing Agency: Celebrating Contemporary African American ArtistsFine Arts Center Galley at the University of Arkansas,
Fayetteville, AR
2012sep 04 - nov 18 2012Kara WalkerKara Walker: More & LessDouglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College,
Portland, OR
aug 31 - may 26 2012Kara WalkerKara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)Mount Holyoke College Art Museum,
South Hadley, MA
may 04 - aug 26 2012Kara WalkerHarper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) by Kara WalkerSaint Louis Art Museum,
St Louis, MO
2011oct 03 2011 - jan 15 2012Kara WalkerKara Walker: Fall Frum Grace, Miss Pipi's Blue Tale, Six Miles from Springfield on the Franklin Road, ...calling to me from the angry surface of some grey and threatening sea, 8 Possible Beginnings or The Creation of African-America, a Moving Picture by Kara E. Walker, Testimony: Narrative of a Negress Burdened by Good IntentionsCenter for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle,
Warsaw, Poland
may 25 - jul 03 2011Kara WalkerKara Walker: A Negress of Noteworthy TalentFondazione Merz,
Torino, Italy
apr 21 - jun 04 2011Kara WalkerFall Frum Grace, Miss Pipi’s Blue TaleLehman Maupin Gallery – Chrystie Street,
New York, N
apr 21 - jun 04 2011Kara WalkerDust Jackets for the Niggerati- and Supporting Dissertations, Drawings submitted ruefully by Dr. Kara E. WalkerSikkema Jenkins & Co.,
New York, NY
2010feb 20 - may 02 2010Kara WalkerKara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)Cincinnati Art Museum,
OH
2009sep 10 - oct 17 2009Kara WalkerMark Bradford, Kara WalkerSikkema Jenkins & Co.,
New York, NY
feb 15 - may 31 2009Kara WalkerKara Walker: The Emancipation ApproximationCastellani Art Museum of Niagara University,
Niagara University, NY
2008oct 05 - nov 23 2008Kara WalkerKara WalkerMDD- Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle,
Belgium
jun 27 - aug 30 2008Kara WalkerThe Black RoadCAC Málaga, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga,
Spain
2007oct 20 - nov 21 2007Kara WalkerBureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands- Records, “Miscellaneous Papers” National Archives M809 Roll 23 - Search for ideas supporting the Black Man as a work of Modern Art / Contemporary Painting; a death without end, and an appreciation of the Creative Spirit of Lynch Mobs - New work, Kara WalkerSikkema Jenkins & Co.,
New York, NY
oct 06 - nov 11 2007Kara WalkerKara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)Fogg Museum at Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA
feb 18 - may 13 2007Kara WalkerKara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My LoveWalker Art Center,
Minneapolis, MN
jan 26 - mar 18 2007Kara WalkerKara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)Addison Gallery of American Art,
Andover, MA
2006mar 21 - aug 06 2006Kara WalkerKara Walker at the Met: After the DelugeThe Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York, NY
mar 04 - apr 01 2006Kara WalkerKara WalkerSikkema Jenkins & Co.
New York, NY
2005sep 02 2005 - oct 23 2006Kara WalkerSong of the SouthREDCAT,
Los Angeles, CA
apr 06 - jul 03 2005Kara WalkerEvent Horizon [special project for New School University]Arnhold Hall, New York, NY, 2005. Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Ciudad de Mexico,
Mexico
2004may 01 - oct 31 2004Kara WalkerGrub for Sharks: A Concession to the Negro PopulaceTate Liverpool,
Liverpool, U.K.
mar 27 - aug 14 2004Kara WalkerFibbergibbet and Mumbo Jumbo: Kara E. Walker in Two ActsThe Fabric Workshop and Museum,
Philadelphia, PA
2003dec 04 2003 - feb 01 2004Kara WalkerKara WalkerCentro Nazionale per le Arti Contemporanee,
Rome, Italy
jul 16 - sep 28 2003Kara WalkerExcavated from the Black Heart of a NegressThe Studio Museum,
Harlem, NY
jun 04 - jul 25 2003Kara WalkerDrawingsBrent Sikkema,
New York, NY
jan 18 - jun 01 2003Kara WalkerKara Walker: Narratives of a NegressThe Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College,
Saratoga Springs, NY
2002sep 06 - oct 26 2002Kara WalkerNat Turner’s Revelation (an Important Lesson from our Negro Past You will Likely Forget to Remember)Galerie Max Hetzler,
Berlin, Germany
mar 23 - jun 02 2002Kara WalkerKara Walker, Slavery!, Slavery!25th International Bienal of Sao Paolo,
Brazil
mar 09 - may 26 2002Kara WalkerKara Walker: An Abbreviated EmancipationThe University of Michigan Museum of Art,
Ann Arbor, MI
jan 20 - feb 24 2002Kara WalkerKara Walker: Deutsche Bank CollectionMannheimer Kunstverein,
Mannheim, Germany
2001sep 08 - oct 13 2001Kara WalkerAmerican PrimitiveBrent Sikkema,
New York, NY
jul 06 - sep 30 2001Kara WalkerThe Emancipation ApproximationThe Tel Aviv Museum of Art,
Tel Aviv, Israel
feb 08 - mar 22 2001Kara WalkerDisturbing AllegoriesVanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery,
Nashville, TN
Kara WalkerKara WalkerTaka Ishii Gallery,
Tokyo, Japan
2000Kara WalkerWhy I Like White Boys, an Illustrated Novel by Kara E. Walker NegressCentre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva,
Switzerland
1999apr 24 - jun 06 1999Kara WalkerAfrican’tGalleri Index,
Stockholm, Sweden
apr 02 - may 15 1999Kara WalkerKara Walker: No mere words can Adequately reflect the Remorse this Negress feels at having been Cast into such a lowly state by her former Masters and so it is with a Humble heart that she brings about their physical Ruin and earthly DemiseCalifornia College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC),
Oakland, CA
mar 13 - apr 17 1999Kara WalkerAnother Fine MessBrent Sikkema,
NY
jan 09 - feb 14 1999Kara WalkerKara WalkerThe McKinney Avenue Contemporary,
Dallas, Texas
1998oct 22 - oct 22 1998Kara WalkerKara WalkerWooster Gardens/Brent Sikkema,
New York, NY.
mar 27 - may 16 1998Kara WalkerKara WalkerForum for Contemporary Art,
St. Louis, MO
jan 16 - feb 21 1998Kara WalkerKara Walker: PrintsThe Print Center,
Philadelphia
Kara WalkerOpera Safety Curtain for 1998-99 SeasonVienna State Opera House,
Vienna, Austria
1997feb 14 - may 13 1997Kara WalkerUpon My Many Masters - An OutlineSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
San Francisco, CA.
jan 12 - feb 23 1997Kara WalkerPresenting Negro Scenes Drawn Upon My Passage Through the South and Reconfigured for the Benefit of Enlightened Audiences Wherever Such May Be Found, By Myself, Missus K.E.B. Walker, ColoredThe Renaissance Society,
The University of Chicago
1996mar 01 - apr 13 1996Kara WalkerFrom the Bowels to the BosomWooster Gardens/Brent Sikkema,
New York, NY
feb 02 - mar 02 1996Kara WalkerOl’ Marster Paintin’s and Silhouette CuttingsBernard Toale Gallery,
Boston, MA
1995sep 23 - oct 22 1995Kara WalkerLook Away! Look Away! Look Away!Center For Curatorial Studies, Bard College,
Annandale-on- Hudson, NY
may 19 - jun 24 1995Kara WalkerThe Battle of Atlanta: Being the Narrative of a Negress in the Flames of Desire – A ReconstructionNexus Contemporary Arts Center,
Atlanta, GA
apr 06 - may 06 1995Kara WalkerThe High and Soft Laughter of the Nigger Wenches At NightWooster Gardens/Brent Sikkema,
New York, NY