Kara Walker: Back of Hand
The Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL
February 15 – May 18, 2024

Kriston Capps
The Washington Post, October 4, 2023

Shana Nys Dembrot
LA Weekly, September 28, 2023

Kara Walker: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
July 8 – September 3, 2023

The Charles Wollaston Award, one of the most prestigious art prizes in the country, is also presented to the ‘most distinguished work’ in the Academy’s Summer Exhibition 2023.

Longing, Grief, and Spirituality: Art Since 1980
The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
June 15, 2023 – Fall 2024

Tony Bravo
Datebook, May 23, 2023

Glenstone presents a selection of works by Kara Walker, including performances of the Katastwóf Karavan orchestral sculpture with Jason Moran. On view through Spring 2023.

Rebecca Peabody
ArtAsiaPacific, March/April 2023

Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)
The New York Historical Society, New York, NY
February 24 – June 11, 2023

This full-day symposium presented by University of Georgia Lamar Dodd School of Art will consider representations of race in performance in connection to the work of Kara Walker and her concurrent solo exhibition, Back of Hand, on view at the Athenaeum.

Kara Walker: Cut to the Quick
Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA
March 9 – June 11, 2023

Kara Walker: Back of Hand
Athenaeum, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
January 13 – March 24, 2023

Nicholas Gamso
Arcade, January 17, 2022

Susan Harris
The Brooklyn Rail, December 2021

Darby English
Artforum, December 1, 2021

Enuma Okoro
Financial Times, June 4, 2021

Gabriella Angeleti
The Art Newspaper, May 27, 2021

Laura Brodie
MoMA Magazine, January 14, 2021

Kara Walker
Vogue, August 26, 2020

Kara Walker
Frieze, May 26, 2020

Artnet News, March 13, 2020

Zadie Smith
The New York Review of Books, February 27, 2020

Cora Gilroy-Ware
London Review of Books, February 6, 2020

Horacio Silva
The Gentlewoman, Autumn/Winter 2019