Walker was born in 1969 in Stockton, California. Her father, Larry Walker, was a painter and professor. Her mother Gwendolyn was an … See more

Walker is most widely known for her immersive site-specific installations. Walker plays and almost blurs the lines between types of art … See more

Among the public collections holding work by Walker are the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis, Minnesota); the Tate Collection, London; the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the See more

Early in her career, Walker lived in Providence, Rhode Island with her husband, German-born jewelry professor Klaus Bürgel, whom she married in 1996. In 1997, she gave … See more

Walker is best known for her panoramic friezes of cut-paper silhouettes, usually black figures against a white wall, which address the history … See more

Walker's first museum survey, in 2007, was organized by Philippe Vergne for the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and traveled to the Whitney Museum in New York, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and the ARC/Musee d'Art Moderne de la ville … See more

In 1997, Walker, who was 28 at the time, was one of the youngest people to receive a MacArthur fellowship. There was a lot of criticism because of her fame at such a young age and the fact that her art was most popular within the white community. In 2007, Walker … See more