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Chakaia Booker (born 1953 in
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) 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
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, received a
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in 2005, and an
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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
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. 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 process.


Early life and education

Chakaia Booker was born in 1953 in
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and raised in neighboring
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. She learned to sew from her grandmother, aunt, and sister. Fixing, repairing, and manipulating materials early in life was foundational to Booker’s later approach to wearable art, ceramics, and sculpture, specifically with the use of pattern, repetition, and modular construction. Booker received a BA in
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from
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in 1976 and an MFA from the
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in 1993. She has studied African dance, ceramics, weaving, basketry, and
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, all of which have influenced her art. She has lived and worked in
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’s East Village since the early 1980s. In the 1990s, she began working with discarded construction materials and rubber tires, which evolved into her artistic style. She maintains a production studio in
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for fabrication of large-scale and public works. Booker has served on the boards of the International Sculpture Center and Socrates Sculpture Park.


Career

Beginning in the 1980s, Booker created wearable sculptures which she could place herself inside and utilize as clothing. "The wearable garment sculpture was about getting energy and feeling from a desired design."Jan Garden Castro "The Language of Life: A Conversation with Chakaia Booker", ''Sculpture'', V.22 No.1 In the early 1990s, Booker began to create large outdoor sculptures from discarded materials found at construction sites, including rubber tires, a medium in which she continues to work. The various tire tread patterns, colors, and widths create a palette for Booker similar to the
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of a painter. Booker's use of tires suggest a range of aesthetic, political, cultural, and economic concerns. They may be considered a reference to the urban landscape of
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Mathew Guy Nichols "Chakaia Booker: Material Matters", ''Art in America'' V.92 No.6 (June/July 2004)164-169 or a reminder how modes of transportation have changed since the industrial age. The tire sculptures may also be considered to address
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identity: their varying pigments and textures can be interpreted as a representation of the range of African American skin tones,Wei, "Queen of Rubber Soul", 88 and their resiliency has been viewed as "a compelling metaphor of African American survival in the modern world." Tire tread patterns in her work may also refer to elements of African culture, including
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, and traditional textiles. Booker's work also deals with themes of class, labor, and gender. Booker's "Echoes in Black (Industrial Cicatrization)" from the 2000
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deals with the emotional and physical scarification that people experience in life. Her piece "No More Milk and Cookies" from 2003 "questions our commercially driven society and what happens when consumption is prohibited." Her 2001 piece "Wench (Wrench) III" is a surrealistic sculpture that subverts a very
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feather boa. The piece "Spirit Hunter" is reminiscent of images of life and death, as well as a feminist approach to birth and sexuality.


Works and exhibits

Chakaia Booker currently works and resides in
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. Her work is part of the permanent collection at the
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, the
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and June Kelly galleries in New York, and others. She has participated in both group and solo exhibitions in such places as the
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, the Akron Museum of Art, Marlborough gallery, the Sandler Hudson Gallery in
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, and the
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in
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, as well as in the "Twentieth Century American Sculpture" exhibition held at
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in 1996. On June 22, 2008, Booker unveiled "Chaikaia Booker: Mass Transit" in
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. This public art exhibition featured 10 sculptures "created by the artist following her visit to Indianapolis and her researching of the city's history and heritage." The
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has exhibited her works in The New York Avenue Sculpture Project (2012), FOREFRONT: Chakaia Booker (2006), and Reaching for the Stars through Art (1998). The
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in
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also exhibited her work in an exhibition entitled Defiant Beauty, which was on display from April 2012 – 2013. Several of her works were also on display in New York City's Garment District from June–November 2014. Booker is one of nine contemporary artists with work on display at the Renwick Gallery's Wonder Gallery in the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D.C. The sculpture on display was "It's So Hard to be Green," which was also exhibited at the 2000 Whitney Museum Biennial. Booker's sculpture ''Position Preferred'' was on view at the McNay Art Museum in 2020. In May 2021, her exhibition "Chakaia Booker: The Observance" went on display at the Institute of Contemporary Art in
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displayed her ''Shaved Portions'' exhibit.


Notable works in public collections

*''Shhh'' (1992), Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park and Museum, Hamilton, Ohio *''Mother and Child'' (1994), Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey *''Blue Bell'' (1998),
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*''Egress'' (c. 2000), National Gallery of Art,
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*''Sweet Dreams'' (2000), Brooklyn Museum, New York *''When Thoughts Collide'' (2000), Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art,
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*''Acid Rain'' (2001),
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, Washington, D.C. *''El Gato'' (2001), Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri *''India Blue'' (2001), Flint Institute of Arts,
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*''It's Like This'' (2001),
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*''Little Red Riding Hood'' (2001),
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*''Raw Attraction'' (2001),
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, New York *''Urban Butterfly'' (2001), Davis Museum at Wellesley College,
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*''Urban Mask'' (2001),
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. Washington, D.C. *''Untitled'' (2002), Memphis Brooks Museum of Art,
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*''A Moment in Time'' (2004),
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, New Windsor, New York *''Echoing Factors'' (2004), Brooklyn College Library, City University of New York *''Quality Time'' (2004), Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence;
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, New York; and
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*''Rendezvous'' (2004),
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*''Urban Excursion'' (2004), Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan *''Position Preferred'' (2006),
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*''Remembering Columbia'' (2006),
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, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, D.C. *''Four Twenty One'' (2010), David C. Driskell Center,
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; and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut *''Untitled'' (2011), Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts; and
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, Washington, D.C. *''The Liquidity of Legacy'' (2016), National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.


Awards, commissions, and residencies


Selected awards and residencies

*Merit Award in Public Art, Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc., Indianapolis, 2008 *Fellowship for Fine Arts, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York City, 2005 *Design Award, Art Commission of the City of New York, New York City, 2005 *Grant,
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, New York City, 2002 *Arts and Letters Award, Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, 2001 *Grant,
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, New York City, 2000 *Inclusion in the Whitney Biennial,
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, New York City, 2000 *Award, Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. Art Fund, New York City, 1999 *Gregory Millard Fellow: Sculpture,
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, New York City, 1997 *The Joan Mitchell Foundation, Painters and Sculptors Grant, New York City, 1995 *Artist-in-Residence, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, 1995 *Commission, NASA Art Program,
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, Washington, D.C., 1994 *Therese Ralston McCabe Connor Award,
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, New York City, 1992 *Grant, Artists Space, New York City, 1988


Selected commissions

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, Washington, D.C., 2016 *
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, Chicago, 2016 * Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C., 2015 * Weeksville Heritage Center, Brooklyn, 2013


References


Further reading

*Arango, Jorge. "Elevating the Everyday: Sculpture Chakaia Booker". ''
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'' November 2003, 146 *Castro, John Gardener "The Language of Life: Chakaia Booker". ''
Sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable ...
'' (Washington D.C.) January/February 2003, 28-33
"Chakaia Booker"
2007, Decordova Sculpture Park Online, 2007, (21 March 2007)

2007 Marlborough Gallery Online, 2007 (21 March 2007) *Glueck, Grace; "Art InReview; Chakaia Booker," ''The New York Times'', 16 March 2001, * Lewis, Samella S.; ''African American Art and Artists''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990 *Nichols, Mathew Guy; "Chakaia Booker:Material Matters", ''Art In America'', June/July 2004, 164-169 *Sanders, Phil and David Krut Projects (Gallery). ''Chakaia Booker: Print Me''. New York: David Krut Publishing. 2012 *Wei, Lilly; "Queen of Rubber Soul", ''Art News'', January 2002, 88-90 *Wilkinson, Michelle; ''Material girls : contemporary Black women artists:'' Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, 2011, 18-19


External links


Chakaia Booker website
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