Kara Walker
Artist

Kara Walker Net Worth

Kara Walker is a renowned collage artist born on November 26, 1969 in California. She is best known for her black paper silhouettes, and has produced many notable works such as The Means to an End: A Shadow Drama in Five Acts (1995) and Emancipating the Past: Kara Walker's Tales of Slavery and Power (2014). Her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions around the world.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Birth Day November 26, 1969
Birth Place California
Age 54 YEARS OLD
Birth Sign Sagittarius

💰 Net worth: $85 Million (2024)

About

Famous for her black paper silhouettes, this prominent collage Artist produced a work titled The Means to an End: A Shadow Drama in Five Acts (1995) and mounted Emancipating the Past: Kara Walker's Tales of Slavery and Power (2014) and numerous other exhibitions.

Before Fame

After graduating from the Atlanta College of Art and the Rhode Island School of Design, she began her rise to artistic prominence by producing 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.

Trivia

She accepted professorships at both Columbia University and Rutgers University.

Family Life

The child of Artist and Teacher Larry Walker, she spent her youth in California and Georgia. Before ending in divorce, her marriage to German-born Teacher Klaus Burgel produced a daughter.

Associated With

Pop Artist Andy Warhol is one of her major influences.

Some Kara Walker images

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