# Kelley Walker > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Kelley_Walker > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Kelley_Walker.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelley_Walker > Source revision: 1252370712 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|American post-conceptual artist (born 1969)}} '''Kelley Walker''' (born 1969 [Columbus, Georgia](/source/Columbus%2C_Georgia)) is an American [post-conceptual](/source/post-conceptual) artist who lives and works in [New York City](/source/New_York_City). He uses [advertising](/source/advertising) and [digital media](/source/digital_media) to make "paintings" using [screen printing](/source/screen_printing) and/or digital printing technologies.http://www.artnet.com/artists/kelley-walker/ Kelley Walker: digital media artist, sculptor and installation artist His art [appropriate](/source/appropriation_art)s iconic cultural images, altering them to highlight underlying issues of American politics and [consumerism](/source/consumerism). He produces work collaboratively with artist [Wade Guyton](/source/Wade_Guyton) under the name ''Guyton\Walker''. ==Education== Walker graduated with a BFA from the [University of Tennessee](/source/University_of_Tennessee) in 1995, and graduated from The [University of Arizona](/source/University_of_Arizona) with an MFA in 1998.{{Cite news|url=http://www.laduenews.com/arts-and-culture/features/kelley-walker-transforms-cam/article_131e43c2-7489-597d-91d0-3f75665abcd0.html|title=Kelley Walker Transforms CAM|last=Hollerbach|first=Bryan A.|date=September 15, 2016|work=Ladue News|access-date=2017-03-03|language=en}} ==Art work== Walker often presents large-scale [billboard](/source/billboard)-like canvases set at 90 degree angles, sometimes splattered with abstracted patterns in symbolic white color and chocolate, such as in his ''Black Star Press'' from 2006, a [digital painting](/source/digital_painting) triptych on canvas.http://www.saatchigallery.com/artists/kelley_walker.htm Kelley Walker at SAATCHI GALLERY Walker’s gestures [mimic](/source/mimic) violence, merging ethical corruption with [graffiti](/source/graffiti) and [pop art](/source/pop_art). He also makes sculpture and [installation art](/source/installation_art). Since 2005, Walker has been working with bricks, first entirely in silkscreen and later adding collaged printed material.Stephanie Murg (March 9, 2015), [http://www.wallpaper.com/art/kelley-walker-tears-down-convention-brick-by-brick/8558 Kelley Walker tears down convention brick by brick] ''[Wallpaper](/source/Wallpaper_(magazine))''. Created between 2013–14, his identically sized, 2.5-meter tall canvases of powdery silkscreened bricks are lined and separated with fragments of pages from the Italian architecture and design magazine ''[Domus](/source/Domus_(magazine))''.[http://www.paulacoopergallery.com/exhibitions/584 Kelley Walker, March 3 - April 18, 2015] [Paula Cooper Gallery](/source/Paula_Cooper_Gallery), New York. In each one of the paintings, Walker begins by scanning individual bricks, which he then arranges into a stacked alignment and silkscreens using a four-color process. ==Exhibitions== Walker has been the subject of solo and two-person exhibitions at [WIELS](/source/Wiels) in [Brussels](/source/Brussels), Belgium; Le Magasin in Grenoble, France; [Modern Art Oxford](/source/Modern_Art_Oxford) in Oxford, United Kingdom; and [Museum De Hallen, Haarlem](/source/Museum_De_Hallen%2C_Haarlem) in The Netherlands. His work was included in the 2005 ''Greater New York'' exhibition at [P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center](/source/P.S.1_Contemporary_Art_Center) in New York and ''USA Today'' at the [Royal Academy](/source/Royal_Academy) in London. He participated in the 7th [Sharjah Biennial](/source/Sharjah_Biennial), the 2006 [Whitney Biennial](/source/Whitney_Biennial), and the 2007 Lyon Biennale. ==Collections== Walker's work has been acquired by the [Museum of Modern Art](/source/Museum_of_Modern_Art), [Whitney Museum of American Art](/source/Whitney_Museum_of_American_Art), [Albright-Knox Art Gallery](/source/Albright-Knox_Art_Gallery), [Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston](/source/Institute_of_Contemporary_Art%2C_Boston), [Carnegie Museum of Art](/source/Carnegie_Museum_of_Art), and Sammlung Goetz in Munich. ==Gallery representation== Walker is represented by [Paula Cooper Gallery](/source/Paula_Cooper_Gallery),{{Cite web|url=https://www.paulacoopergallery.com/exhibitions/kelley-walker/press-release|title=Paula Cooper Gallery|website=www.paulacoopergallery.com|access-date=2016-04-06}} New York; Thomas Dane Gallery, London; Capitain Petzel Gallery, Berlin; Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne; Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan; and Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels.{{citation needed|date=April 2014}} ==Controversy== On September 17, 2016 Kelley Walker became the center of major controversy after giving an opening artist talk for his show, Direct Drive, at the [Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis](/source/Contemporary_Art_Museum_St._Louis). Controversy arose after Walker avoided audience questions regarding his intent in using racial imagery and symbolism. As a consequence there was much backlash against Walker, CAM STL, and head curator Jeffrey Uslip, who resigned two weeks later.{{Cite web|url=https://fox2now.com/news/racially-charged-st-louis-contemporary-art-museum-show-sparks-outrage/|title=Racially charged St. Louis Contemporary Art Museum show sparks outrage|date=September 26, 2016}}{{cite web| url = http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/st-louisans-call-boycott-cams-newest-exhibit-direct-drive-depicting-black-bodies#stream/0| title = St. Louisans call for a boycott of CAM's newest exhibit, 'Direct Drive,' depicting black bodies {{!}} STLPR| date = 21 September 2016}}{{Cite web |url=http://uk.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1622732/deputy-director-of-st-louiss-contemporary-art-museum-resigns |title=Deputy Director of St. Louis's Contemporary Art Museum Resigns, Artist Bathes in Pig Blood at Pro-Trump Art Show, and More | BLOUIN ARTINFO |access-date=2016-11-12 |archive-date=2016-11-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161112145342/http://uk.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1622732/deputy-director-of-st-louiss-contemporary-art-museum-resigns |url-status=dead }} ==Footnotes== {{reflist|3}} ==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20120426051647/http://www.wiels.org/event.php?event_id=62 Kelley Walker, WIELS, Brussels, Belgium, 9/6–11/2/2008] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20120424114453/http://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/whats-on/seth-price-kelley-walker-continuous-project/about/ Seth Price/Kelley Walker/Continuous Project, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK, 4/28–7/1/2007] *[http://www.paulacoopergallery.com/artists/KW Kelley Walker, Paula Cooper Gallery] {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Walker, Kelley}} Category:American digital artists Category:1969 births Category:Living people Category:People from Columbus, Georgia Category:University of Tennessee alumni Category:20th-century American painters Category:American male painters Category:21st-century American painters Category:American postmodern artists Category:Artists from New York (state) Category:American new media artists Category:20th-century American printmakers Category:Post-conceptual artists Category:American contemporary painters Category:20th-century American male artists --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Kelley Walker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelley_Walker) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelley_Walker?action=history)). 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