Kara Walker is an African American painter, filmmaker, installation artist, and printmaker. Through artwork, she has gained both national and international recognition. Her art mainly features cut-paper silhouettes showing narratives haunted by violence, subjugation, and sexuality.

She uses her art to expose psychological injuries caused by the legacy of slavery depicting contemporary gender and racial stereotypes.
Kara Walker's work uses both silhouette and cyclorama to explore the nature of race representation, history, and narratives in contemporary art.
She started making 16mm in films in the early 2000s, along with video installations that set her paintings and silhouettes in motion. One of her most recognized art pieces is a short, 16mm film in a lurid story of slaves and their masters told in puppets, shadow, and title cards. The film was a narrative of a negress burned by good intentions and was called TESTIMONY. ''Testimony'' was produced in 2004.
Apart from paintings, walker also produced a specific sculpture. She did a marvelous sugar baby installed in a warehouse in Brooklyn.
She has received several recognitions; she is among the youngest recipients of a MacArthur fellowship at age 28.
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