biografia di Chakaia BOOKER (1953)

Personal data


Birth : 1953 - Newark NJ New Jersey, United States
Sex : F
Nationality/Affiliation : United States

Address

New York NY New York, United States

Representatives

Marlborough Chelsea – 211 West 19th Street – New York NY, United States


Education

City College of New York (MFA in Art) – Art Department 138 th Street and Convent Avenue – New York NY, United States
1976 : Rutgers University (BA Sociology) – New Brunswick NJ, United States

Professional data


Work and Life

Lives and works in New York NY, USA

Work


Categorie and medium


Sculpture-Volume : Assemblage - Fabric creation - Metal - Object - Organic material - Plastic - Rubber - Sculpture, wood
Tapestry : Tapestry

Subject

women
society problems

Works

It's so hard to be green
Date of creation : 2000
Medium : Sculpture
 
Blue Bell (Deception)
Date of creation : 1998
Medium : Sculpture
 
Lyrical Gesture in Space (Landscape)
Date of creation : 1996
Medium : Sculpture
 
Observance (fragmented beaded banner)
Date of creation : 1995
Medium : Installation
 

Solo Exhibitions (Selected)


Solo exhibitions

2001

Galerie Simonne Stern – New Orleans LA, United States
11/2001

Marlborough Chelsea – New York NY, United States
2001

2000

Akron Art Museum – Akron OH, United States
2000

Industrial Subliminalization
Laumeier Sculpture Park and Museum – Saint Louis MO, United States
2000

Group Exhibitions (Selected)


Group exhibitions

2001

Compelled
Hunterdon Art Center – Clinton NJ, United States
2001

2000

Greater New York: New Art in New York Now
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center – Long Island NY, United States
02/2000 – 05/2000

Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial Exhibition
Whitney Museum of American Art – New York NY, United States
03/23/2000 – 06/04/2000

The End : An Independent Vision of Contemporary Culture 1982-2000
Exit Art / The First World – New York NY, United States
01/29/2000 – 04/01/2000

1996

Twentieth Century American Sculpture
White House Sculpture Garden – Washington DC, United States
1996

Bibliography (Selected)


On the artist


Periodicals

2002

WEI Lilly – Queen of Rubber Soul
in: ARTnews p. 88
New York NY, United States
01/2002

2001

MAHONEY Robert – Chakaia Bokker at Marlborough Chelsea
in: Art in America p. 147
New York NY, United States
09/2001

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