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Kara Walker, THE SOVEREIGN CITIZENS SESQUICENTENNIAL CIVIL WAR CELEBRATION

Kara WalkerTHE SOVEREIGN CITIZENS SESQUICENTENNIAL CIVIL WAR CELEBRATION, 2013

Cut paper and adhesive on wall

Installation variable, approximately 470 × 2000 cm

About the artist

(*1969, Stockton, CA) lives and works in New York. Selected solo exhibitions include Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires (2025), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2024), National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (2023), De Pont Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands (2022), Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2021), Kunstmuseum Basel (2021), Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London (2019), Domino Sugar Refinery, Brooklyn, New York (2014), Camden Arts Centre, London (2013), Art Institute of Chicago (2013), Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2011), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and Modern Art Museum Fort Worth (both 2008), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, ARC/Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and Whitney Museum, New York (all 2007) and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2006). Major international group exhibitions include Monuments , co-organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art and The Brick, Los Angeles (2025), Prospect.4, New Orleans (2017), 11th Havana Biennial (2012), 52nd Venice Biennale (2007) and Whitney Biennial, New York (1997).

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