Saturday, September 27, 2008

Biography: Katie Walker

Katie Walker (b. 1970)

Greenville, S.C., artist Katie Walker (b. 1970) has been among South Carolina’s most prominent abstract artists for many years. In 2012, she was included in the South Carolina State Museum’s exhibition Abstract Art in South Carolina 1949 – 2012. She also was selected for the 701 CCA South Carolina Biennial 2011and 2013 at 701 Center for Contemporary Art in Columbia, S.C. Her most recent museum solo exhibition was in 2014 at the Greenville County (S.C.) Museum of Art. In 2015, she was part of the Columbia Museum of Art’s exhibition Independent Spirits. Walker also has exhibited in Spartanburg Museum of Art and the Pickens County Museum of Art and History, both in South Carolina, the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, Ga., and the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens. She was represented at the 2005 Florence, Italy, Biennale, where she was an award winner. Walker was included in New American Paintings, Vol. 40, 2002, and the publication’s 2010 anniversary edition. 
            Walker has taught at Furman University in Greenville, where she earned her BA in studio art. She holds an MFA from the University of Georgia and studied and taught in the university’s Cortona Study Abroad program in Italy.           

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