Chakaia Booker
American · 1953–1991 · Painter, Printmaker
Chakaia Booker 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… (Wikipedia)
Record prices
Yearnings UncheckedPhillips · $94,500≈ £67,995≈ €79,172Sign up to see
UntitledPhillips · $59,220≈ £42,446≈ €49,153Sign up to see
Vertical FlightPhillips · $56,700≈ £42,069≈ €49,978Sign up to see
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Chakaia Booker 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.
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In the collections of
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film ArchiveMetropolitan Museum of ArtMichael C. Carlos MuseumPicker Art GalleryStudio Museum in HarlemWhitney Museum of American Art
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Harlem Renaissance
Also known as Favianna Rodriguez, Prentiss H. Taylor, Prentiss Hottel Taylor, Prentiss Hottell Taylor, Prentiss Taylor
Artist record compiled from: Wikidata (CC0), Getty ULAN (ODC-By), National Gallery of Art open data (CC0), The Met Open Access (CC0). See data sources & attribution.