Johanna Fateman
Cultured Mag, December 19, 2024

Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
November 17, 2024–February 17, 2025

Pamela Sneed
Cultured Mag, November 13, 2024

Past as Prologue: A Historical Acknowledgment, Part I
National Academy of Design, New York, NY
October 17, 2024–January 11, 2025

American Vignettes: Symbols, Society, and Satire
Rubell Museum, Washington, DC
September 27, 2024–Fall 2025

Karen Rosenberg
The New York Times, September 26, 2024

Tony Bravo
The San Francisco Chronicle, July 15, 2024

Hilarie M. Sheets
The New York Times, June 27, 2024

untranquil now: a constellation of narratives and resonances
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
May 31, 2024–January 19, 2025

Narrative Obsession in the Post-Colonial Psyche
Shelley and Donald R. Rubin Foundation, The 8th Floor, NY
May 16–July 13, 2024

SFMOMA, May 7, 2024

Celia McGee
The New York Times, April 19, 2024

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