Chakaia Booker (born 1953 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American sculptor known for creating monumental, abstract works for both the gallery and outdoor public spaces. Booker’s works are contained in more than 40 public collections and have been exhibited across the United States, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Booker was included in the 2000 Whitney Biennial, received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005, and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Art in 2001. Booker has lived and worked in New York City’s East Village since the early 1980s and maintains a production studio in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Booker is best known for her innovative and signature use of recycled rubber tires, her primary sculptural material. Rubber has provided Booker with the ability to work in a modular format at a monumental scale while maintaining a fluid movement and gestural feel. Throughout her career, Booker has consistently used stainless steel and fabric to create sculptural works in addition to rubber tires. In 2009, Booker began an in depth exploration of printmaking creating a significant body of graphic works, largely focused on the process of chine collé. Booker’s approach to printmaking processes is reminiscent of her modular working methods in sculpture. Printmaking has become a regular part of Booker’s artistic output, and as with her use of rubber, Booker has invented unique ways of manipulating materials and processes.
ChakaiaBooker (born 1953 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American sculptor known for creating monumental, abstract works for both the gallery and outdoor...
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neighborhood of Fort Greene that included fellow artists Lorna Simpson, ChakaiaBooker and Sandye Wilson among others. With Lisa Jones, also a member of Rodeo...
Mountain, Georgia. Tillet and Farber commissioned artists Jamel Shabazz, ChakaiaBooker, and Manuel Acevedo to propose public art installations in Military...
including "Be My Baby" and "Baby, I Love You" Deborah Berke – architect ChakaiaBooker – sculptor Seymour Boardman – New York abstract expressionist Joshua...
exhibition spaces of the gallery. The artists chosen were Jennifer Angus, ChakaiaBooker, Gabriel Dawe, Tara Donovan, Patrick Dougherty, Janet Echelman, John...
Alternative Space in 2000. Artists who exhibited at Exit Art include ChakaiaBooker, Gabo Camnitzer, Patty Chang, Shu Lea Cheang, COOPER, John Drury, Jimmie...
Анна Абазиева, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Lynda Benglis, Rosa Bonheur, ChakaiaBooker, Louise Bourgeois, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Rosalba Carriera, Mary Cassatt...
ephemera. It included works by contemporary artists David Wojnarowicz, ChakaiaBooker, and Emma Amos, pieces by Colin Campbell Cooper, and a large body of...
Boldsen (1884–1968), Denmark Lee Bontecou (1931–2022), United States ChakaiaBooker (born 1953), United States Isabelle de Borchgrave (born 1946), Belgium...
Mickalene Thomas, Pat Steir, KAWS, Joan Mitchell, Marsden Hartley, ChakaiaBooker, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Diane Arbus, Nick Cave, David Smith...
were writers, actors, and musicians: Donna Berwick, costume designer ChakaiaBooker Celina Davis, dancer and writer Raye Dowell, actress Candace Hamilton...
includes four temporary prototype monuments by artists Manuel Acevedo, ChakaiaBooker, Sonya Clark, and Jamel Shabazz, who each responded to the exhibition's...
(located at the Vigo County Public Library) Emanating Connections by ChakaiaBooker (located on the campus of Indiana State University) Runner by Doug Kornfeld...
painter and first Allentown Art Museum curator Mark Beyer, comic book artist ChakaiaBooker, sculptor Karl Buesgen, former landscape painter and Pennsylvania...
Blanquet, Stephane, Le Muscle Carabine 2009 Shuster, Robert, Spring Guide: ChakaiaBooker is a Radial Radical, The Village Voice 2008 Blanquet, Stephane, Le Tendon...
exhibit included works by artists including Emma Amos, Siona Benjamin, ChakaiaBooker, Judy Chicago, Susanne Kessler, Faith Ringgold, Aminah Robinson, Flo...
others, Wright and Cover editors covered Steve Buscemi, Penny Arcade, ChakaiaBooker, Andrea Zittel, Dawoud Bey, Sarah McLachlan, The Cranberries, and artists...
to the resilience of creativity. The Liquidity of Legacy, 2016, by ChakaiaBooker is about the changes that shape people's lives and legacy. Lonnie Bunch...
Yuskavage Petah Coyne Jeremy Blake Joseph Marioni Annette Weintraub ChakaiaBooker Michael Joo Louise Lawler Richard Tuttle Arthur Jafa Theresa Duncan...
Ruscha: OKLA Abstract Remix Open World: Video Games & Contemporary Art ChakaiaBooker: Shaved Portions Maren Hassinger: Nature, Sweet Nature Jen Lewin: Aqueous...
April 1 – August 19, 2018 A Dark Place of Dreams: Louise Nevelson with ChakaiaBooker, Lauren Fensterstock and Kate Gilmore April 28 – September 9, 2018 A...
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