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Chakaia Booker
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American
, born 1953)
Chakaia Booker
Yes,
2006
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Chakaia Booker
Just a Minute,
2005
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Timeline
1953
Born Newark, New Jersey. The artist currently lives in New York and works in Manhattan and Allentown, PA.
1976
BA Sociology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
1992
Connor Award
1993
MFA, Sculpture and Painting,The City College of New York, New York, New York
1994
Commission, NASA Art Program, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
1995
Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
Artist in Residence, The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, New York
1997
New York Foundation for the Arts – Gregory Millard Fellow (Recipient in Sculpture)
1999
The Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. Art Fund, Inc.
2000
Anonymous Was A Woman Grant
2001
American Academy of Arts and Letters
2002
Pollock-Krasner Award
2005
Fellowship for Fine Arts, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York Design Award, Art Commission of the City of New York
2008
Merit Award in Public Art, Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc., IN
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Exhibitions
2018
Chakaia Booker: Four Sculptures, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
LBD Duty Free, Chicago Park District, Chicago, IL
2016
Millennium Park, Chicago, IL
2015
606 Bloomingdale Trail, Chicago, IL
Take The Highway: Chakaia Booker, Cleveland Institute of Art, OH
Chakaia Booker, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
Chakaia Booker Westmont Ridley Tree Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
Eradication: A Form of Obsession: Chakaia Booker, Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Chakaia Booker: Are We There Yet, Towson University, MD
2014
Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park, Governors State University, Chicago, IL
Found The Rhythm: Chakaia Booker, David Krut Gallery, NY
2012
New York Avenue Sculpture Project, National Museum of Women in the Washington D.C.
Print Me, David Krut Projects, New York, New York
Chakaia Booker: Conjugal Visit, Marlborough Chelsea, New York
Defiant Beauty: The Work of Chakaia Booker, Georgia Museum of Art, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA (through 2013)
2011
Chakaia Booker, Maplewood Arts Center, Maplewood, NJ
Cut, Weld and Build: Process in Works by Chakaia Booker, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ (through 2011)
UNTIRING: Tires, Textures and Triumphs!, Maplewood Arts Center, Maplewood, NJ (through 2011)
On Site: Chakaia Booker, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (through 2011)
Unexpected Retreading: The Art of Chakaia Booker, University Art Museum, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Chakaia Booker: Energy Made Visible, Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College, PA
Sustain, Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, Georgia; traveled to Galerie Pfriem, Lacoste, France
2010
Chakaia Booker: Eminent Domain, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
Chakaia Booker: In and Out, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
2009
Chakaia Booker: Crossover Effects, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
Chakaia Booker: Recent Work, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New The Sculpture Park at Moore inAviator Park, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA (through 2010)
Terrace Project: Chakaia Booker, Michael Graves Terrace, Paul Robeson Center, Arts Council of Princeton, Princeton, NJ (2010)
2008
Rubber Made: Sculpture by Chakaia Booker, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Destiny Unchanged, The Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center, New York
Chakaia Booker: Mass Transit, Arts Council of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN (through 2009)
Chakaia Booker, Marlborough Chelsea, November - December (solo)
Chakaia Booker Sculptures, Indianapolis, Indiana, May 1, 2008 – April 1, 2009 (solo)
2007 - 2008
Painting and Sculpture, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, December 12, 2007 – February 9, 2008
Chakaia Booker, Gallery 210, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, October 4 – December 8 (solo)
Wit and Whimsy, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, March 6 – March 31
SCOPE New York 2007, Marlborough Gallery booth, February 22 – 27
2007
Brodsky Center Ball & Live Auction, Brodsky Center, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, January 13
2006
Chakaia Booker, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., May 26 - September 4 (solo)
Chakaia Booker, The Putney School, Putney, VT, September 15 – November 15 (solo)
14th Annual Exhibit of Fine Art by African Americans, Art in the Atrium, Morristown, New Jersey
American Perspectves: Highlights of Works by African American Artists, Flint Institute of Art, Flint, Michigan, April 1
2005
Closer to Home, The 48th Annual Corcoran Biennial, Washington, DC
Over & Over: Passion As Process, Krannert Museum, Champaign, Illinois
Chakaia Booker, Collins Art Gallery, Grand Rapids, Community College, Grand Rapids, MI (solo)
Chakaia Booker, Lord & Taylor, New York, New York (solo)
Chakaia Booker: Escultura, Galería Marlborough, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2004
Chakaia Booker: Jersey Ride, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, New Jersey (solo)
Unveiling the Image: Multicultural Woman Artists, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, New Jersey
Los Monocromos de Malevich al presente, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, (curated by Barbara Rose), Madrid, Spain
2003
No More Milk and Cookies, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York (solo)
New Loan Exhibition, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York
Serendipity, Laumeier Sculpture Park and Museum, St. Louis, Missouri (through 2004) (solo)
2002
Memory and Metaphor, Walsh Library Gallery, Seton Hall University, New Jersey
2001
New Sculptures, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York (solo)
Material and Matter (selected works from the permanent collection), The Studio
2000
Whitney Biennial 2000, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, New York
Chakaia Booker, Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio (solo)
1999
Industrial Subliminal-I-zation, Laumeier Sculpture Park and Museum, St. Louis, Missouri (solo)
Passages: Contemporary Art in Transition, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York and The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois
Not That Daughter, June Kelly Gallery, New York, New York (solo)
1998
Entitled: Black Women Artists, Skylight Gallery, Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Center for Art and Culture, Brooklyn, New York
1997
Revelations, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, New York (solo)
Socrates Sculpture Park International 97, Long Island City, New York
1996
The 20th American Sculpture at the White House: A North East Region Exhibition,
Sculpture, Max Protech Gallery, New York, New York (solo)
1995
The Observance Installation, York College, Jamaica, New York (solo)
1994
International 93-94, Part II, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York (through 1995)
1993
There It Is There It Is There It Is, 450 Gallery, New York, New York
1984
Hoard Not Your Soulful Creations, Thomkins Square Gallery, New York, New York
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Public Collections
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Philander Smith College, Little Rock, AR
Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park and Museum, Hamilton, OH
Queens Museum of Arts, Queens, NY
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, RI
Ron Pizutti Collection, Columbus, OH
New School for Social Research, New York, NY
SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
The Bronx Museum of The Arts, Bronx, NY
The Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, FL
The David C. Driskell Center, College Park, MD
The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The New School for Social Research, New York, NY
Smith College, North Hampton, MA
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase State University of New York, Purchase, NY
National Museum of Women In The Arts, Washington, D.C.
Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
Brooklyn College Library, The City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Donald W. Reynolds Library & Technology Center at Philander Smith College, Little Rock, AR
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Hudson County Cultural Affairs, New Jersey, NJ
James E. Lewis Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Laumeier Sculpture Park and Museum, St. Louis, MO
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, D.C.
National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C.
Westmont Tree-Ridley Museum of Art, Montecito, CA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
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