Explore: Barbara Walker

(1964 - )

Barbara Walker (born 1964) was born in Birmingham. She has remarked that her experiences growing up in that city ‘directly shaped a practice concerned with issues of class and power, gender, race, representation and belonging’. Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at the Whitworth Art Gallery (2023), Turner Contemporary (2019), Jerwood Gallery (2018), Midlands Arts Centre (2016), and the James Hockey Gallery, at Creative Arts in Farnham (2015). Her works have been included in significant group exhibitions in the UK and internationally, including at Tate Britain (2021), Lahore Biennale, Pakistan ( 2020), Royal Academy of Arts, London (2019), MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen ( 2018), the 57th Venice Biennale (2017), Modern Art Oxford (2018), and the Dakar Biennale, Senegal (2018). She was awarded the Bridget Riley Fellowship in 2020 at The British School at Rome and, in 2017, the inaugural Evelyn Williams Drawing Award, an award connected with the Jerwood Charitable Foundation. In 2019, Walker was awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours list for services to British Art.