Kara Walker

Kara Walker

female, 39 years old
Rhode Island School of Design alumni, African-American, Postmodern artist, race, Atlanta College Of Art, PBS…WalkerArtCenter, museum of modern art, museum of contemporary art, san francisco museum of modern art
Kara Walker (born November 26, 1969) is a contemporary American artist who is best known for her exploration of race, gender, sexuality, and...
Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo

female, deceased (1954)
Trotskyist, painter, artist, realism, symbolism, Mexican…Walker Art Center associate, san francisco museum of modern art, WalkerArtCenter, center
Frida Kahlo (July 61907 - July 13, 1954) was a Mexican painter who depicted the indigenous culture of her country in a style combining Realism,...
Jim Dine

Jim Dine

male, 74 years old
Jewish American, artist, Ohio University alumni, WalkerArtCenter, Jewish, Minneapolis Institute of Arts…pop art
Jim Dine was born June 16, 1935, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He studied at night at the Cincinnati Art Academy during his senior year of high school and...
Philippe Parreno

Philippe Parreno

male, 45 years old
Algerian, Zidane, A 21st Century Portrait, Centre Georges Pompidou, Oran, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, WalkerArtCenter…museum of modern art
Philippe Parreno is a French artist and filmmaker, of Algerian heritage. He was born in Oran, Algeria and is based in Paris, France. Parreno's work...
Stuart Davis

Stuart Davis

male, deceased (1964)
Modernism, Philadelphia Press, sculptor, Hard-edge painting, modern art, artist…WalkerArtCenter, Art Editor, museum of modern art
Stuart Davis (December 7, 1892 - June 24, 1964), American painter, was born in Philadelphia to Edward Wyatt Davies and Helen Stuart Davies. His...
Gillian Wearing

Gillian Wearing

female, 46 years old
photograph, Sensation exhibition, Young British Artists, 1997 Turner Prize, Sixty Minute Silence, Alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London…WalkerArtCenter, Chelsea School of Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design
Gillian Wearing (born 1963) is an English artist. Born in Birmingham, Wearing moved to Chelsea, London to study art at the Chelsea School of Art...
Edward Larrabee Barnes

Edward Larrabee Barnes

male
AIA Gold Medal, american institute of architect, University of Virginia, American Academy in Rome, WalkerArtCenter, Pratt Institute…dallas museum of art
Edward Larrabee Barnes (1915-2004) was an American architect known for his designs of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Dallas Museum of...
Krzysztof Wodiczko

Krzysztof Wodiczko

male, 66 years old
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty, university of guelph, Postmodern artist, swastika, electronic, emigrate…Dia Art Foundation, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Center of Art, Center for Advanced Visual, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art
Krzysztof Wodiczko is an artist currently living in Boston and teaching at MIT. The son of Polish conductor Bohdan Wodiczko, he was born in 1943 in...
John Szarkowski

John Szarkowski

male, deceased (2007)
New York University faculty, Harvard University faculty, Cornell University faculty, Polish-American, death by stroke, from Wisconsin…fine art photography, WalkerArtCenter, museum of modern art, art history
John Szarkowski (December 18, 1925 - July 7, 2007) was an influential photographer, curator, historian, and critic. From 1962 to 1991 Szarkowski...
Chris Faust

Chris Faust

male, 54 years old
from Minnesota, suburban, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, WalkerArtCenter, fort riley, weisman art museum…landscape art, san francisco museum of modern art
Christopher C. Faust (born 1955 in Fort Riley, Kansas) is a prolific landscape photographer in St. Paul, Minnesota. He holds a degree in biology...