1953Born in Newark, New Jersey
19761976 BA Sociology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
19931993 MFA, The City College of New York, New York, New York
2008Merit Award in Public Art, Chakaia Booker: Mass Transit, Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
200524th Annual Art Commission Award, The Art Commission of the City of New York, New York, New York, United States Construction of the Weeksville Heritage Center and Adjacent Landscape, including the Installation of Sugar in My Bowl II by Chakaia Booker
2005Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, New York, United States
2002The Pollock-Krasner Grant, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc., New York, New York, United States
2001Academy Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, New York, United States
2000Anonymous Was a Woman Grant, Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation, New York, New York, United States
1999The Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. Art Fund, Inaugural Awards Panel, New York, New York, United States
1997Gregory Millard Fellow (recipient in Sculpture), The New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, New York, United States
1995Artist in Residence, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York, United States
1995Painters and Sculptors Grant, The Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, New York, United States
1992Elizabeth Ralston McCabe Connor Award, The City College of New York, New York, New York, United States
1988Grant, Artists Space, New York, New York, United States
2005Closer to Home - The 48th Annual Corcoran Biennial, Washington, D.C., United States
2000Whitney Biennial 2000, New York, New York, United States
1997Biennial Exhibition of Public Art, Purchase, New York, United States
2010Chakaia Booker, The Sculpture Park at Moore in Aviator Park, Moore College of Art, Chicago, Illinois, United States.
2010Chakaia Booker: Eminent Domain, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey, United States.
2010Look Again, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York, United States.
2009Chakaia Booker: Crossover Effects, Simpson Sculpture Garden, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, United States.
2008Chakaia Booker: Mass Transit, Arts Council of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.
2008Destiny Unchanged, Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center, New York, New York, United States.
2008 - 2009Inside Out, Elmhurst Art Museum, Chicago, Illinois, United States. with Bob Emser
2008Rubber Made: Sculpture by Chakaia Booker, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, United States.
2007Chakaia Booker, Gallery 210, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
2006Chakaia Booker, The Putney School, Putney, Vermont, United States.
2006Forefront: Chakaia Booker, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., United States. traveled to Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia, United States
2005Chakaia Booker, Collins Art Gallery, Grand Rapids Community College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States.
2005Chakaia Booker, Lord & Taylor, New York, New York, United States.
2005Chakaia Booker: Escultura, Galería Marlborough, Madrid, Spain.
2005New Works, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
2004Chakaia Booker, Storm King Art Center, Moutainville, New York, United States.
2004Chakaia Booker: Divine Detritus by the Black Warrior River, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States.
2004Chakaia Booker: Jersey Ride, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, New Jersey, United States.
2003Chakaia Booker: No More Milk and Cookies, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York, United States.
2002Serendipity, Laumeier Sculpture Park and Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
2001Chakaia Booker Sculpture, Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
2001Chakaia Booker: New Sculptures, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York, United States.
2000Chakaia Booker, Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio, United States.
1999Industrial Subliminal-I-zation, Sculpture Park and Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
1998Not That Daughter, June Kelly Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1997Revelations, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, New York, United States.
1996Changing Distribution, Queens Museum of Art at the Bulova Corporate Center, Queens, New York, United States.
1996Sculpture, Max Protech Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1995The Observance Installation, York College, Jamaica, New York, United States.
1994Milk Carton Installation, Jamaica Art Center, Jamaica, New York, United States.
1994Silent Complicity, Independent Arts Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1991Fitting of Apt Parts, Casa Adela Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
2009Art on the Green, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri , United States.
2009Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York, United States.
2009Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
2008Discarded to Distinctive, Richard M. Ross Art Museum, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, United States.
2008 - 2011NASA Art: 50 Years of Exploration, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., United States.
2008 - 2009Provocative Visions: Race and Identity – Selections from the Permanent Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, United States.
2008Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Arts & Design, New York, New York, United States.
2008 - 2009Seminal Works from the N’Namdi Collection of African American Art, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, Michigan, United States.
2008Summer Show, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York, United States.
2008Summer Show, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
2007Painting and Sculpture, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
2007SCOPE New York 2007, Marlborough Gallery booth, New York, New York, United States.
2007Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
2007Whole Fragment, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada-Reno, Reno, Nevada, United States. (exhibition catalogue)
2007Wit and Whimsy, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States. (exhibition catalogue)
200614th Annual Exhibit of Fine Art by African Americans, Art in the Atrium, Morristown, New Jersey, United States.
2006American Perspectives: Highlights of Works by African American Artists, Flint Institute of Art, Flint, Michigan, United States.
2006Extreme Materials, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States. (exhibition brochure)
2006Sculpture, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
2006Summer Group Show, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
2005Collection Remixed: Threads and Vines, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York, United States.
2005Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, Texas, United States.
2005Factory Direct: New Haven, Artspace, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
2005Frequency, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York, United States.
2005Over & Over: Passion As Process, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois, United States. Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
2005Salamanca ciudad de la escultura, City of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.
2005USA, Hoy: Pintura y Escultura, Galería Marlborough, Madrid, Spain. (exhibition catalogue)
2004Creating Their Own Image, Aronson Galleries, Parsons School of Design, New York, New York, United States.
2004Los Monocromos, de Malevich al presente, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain.
2004Unveiling the Image: Multicultural Woman Artists, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, New Jersey, United States.
2003Larger Than Life: Women Artists Making It Big, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States.
2003New Loan Exhibition, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York, United States.
2002Memory and Metaphor, Walsh Library Gallery, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey, United States.
2001Compelled, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, New Jersey, United States.
2001Driving Women, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York, United States.
2001Fair, UFA Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
2001Group Exhibition, Navy Pier, N'Namdi Art Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, United States.
2001Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, New York, United States.
2001Material and Matter, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York, United States.
2001Red, Black, and Green, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York, United States.
2000Greater New York, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, United States.
2000Group Exhibition, N'Namdi Art Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, United States.
2000The End, Exit Art/The First World, New York, New York, United States.
2000The Likeness of Being: Contemporary Self-Portraits by 60 Women, DC Moore Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1999Artistry of Space: The NASA Art Program, Artrain, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.
1999Material Perception, Nations Bank Plaza Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States.
1999Passages: Contemporary Art in Transition, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York, United States. The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois
1999Reuse/Renew, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States.
1999The Times of Our Lives, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York, United States.
1998Alternative Measures, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York, United States.
1998Art After Dark, Cedarhurst Sculpture Park, Mount Vernon, Illinois, United States.
1998Beauty and the Beast, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York, United States.
1998Beyond the Monument, Public Art Fund, Metro Tech Commons, Brooklyn, New York, United States.
1998Constructions in Multiple Hues: Sculptures by Women of Color, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
1998Entitled: Black Women Artists, Skylight Gallery, Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Center for Art and Culture, Brooklyn, New York, United States.
1998Group Exhibition, Abington Art Center Sculpture Garden, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, United States.
1998Postcards From Black America: Contemporary African American Art, Deyerd Centre for Contemporary Art, Breda, and the Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands.
1998Reaching for the Stars Through Art: Selected Works by American Artists from the NASA Art Program, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., United States.
1998Rubber, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1998Urban Expressions, Skylight Gallery, Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Center for Art and Culture, Brooklyn, New York, United States.
1997Group Exhibition, Abington Art Center Sculpture Garden, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, United States.
1997Group Exhibition, Art Spot Gallery Marya, Osaka, Japan.
1997International ’97, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York, United States.
1997New York Exhibition, Gallery Guute, Hiroshima, Japan.
1997Opposite Disciplines, Gallery X, New York, New York, United States.
1997Salon Renaissance, A1 The Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1997Sooi (Difference/Originality), Xa104 Roadside Museum, Hiroshima, Japan.
1997Unresolved… Drawings and Paintings According(ly) to Chakaia Booker, Keith Duncan, Luke Gray, Archibald Arts, New York, New York, United States.
1996Acts of Obsession, Carla Stellweg Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1996Hanging Sculpture Garden, Newport Center Mall, Jersey City, New Jersey, United States.
1996Heat Up, The Fukuyama Museum, Hiroshima, Japan.
1996Inside Out, Longwood Art Center, Bronx, New York, United States.
1996To Carry Me Home, Artist-in-Residence Exhibition from the Studio, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York, United States.
1996Twentieth Century American Sculpture at the White House: Northeast Region—Exhibition IV, The White House, Washington, D.C., United States.
1995Group Exhibition, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States.
1995ME, Dru Arstark Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1995Notation on Africanism, Archibald Arts, New York, New York, United States.
1995Recycling with Imagination: ART FORUM DETRITUS II, Massman Gallery of Rockhurst University, Kansas City, Missouri, United States.
1995The Art of Justice, Part I, Krasdale Gallery, White Plains, New York, United States.
1995The Listening Sky: An Inaugural Exhibition of The Studio Museum Sculpture Garden, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York, United States.
1995Three African American Women, A.F.T.U./Bill Hodges Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1995Way Cool, Exit Art/The First World, New York, New York, United States.
1994Altering the Figure, Middlesex County College, Edison, New Jersey, United States.
1994International ’93–’94, Part II, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York, United States.
1994Newcomers Exhibition, Countee Cullen Library, New York, New York, United States.
1993There It Is There It Is There It Is, 450 Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1988360 Degrees Centered: Paintings and Textiles by Howardena Pindell, Faith Ringgold, and Chakaia Booker, Tompkins Square Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1984Hoard Not Your Soulful Creations, Tompkins Square Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, New York, United States
Brooklyn College Library, Brooklyn, New York, United States
Donald W. Reynolds Library & Technology Center at Philander Smith College, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan, United States
Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Laumeier Sculpture Park and Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, D.C., United States
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, New York, United States
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York, United States
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York, United States
The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, United States
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, United States
The New School for Social Research, New York, New York, United States
The Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey, United States
The Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, United States
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York, United States
Wabash Valley Outdoor Sculpture Collection and Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, United States
1994Commission, Sculpture, NASA Art Program, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., United States
1995Transformation: A Dialogue on Installations, Mixed Media and Found Objects, New School for Social Research, New York, New York, United States
1996Artist Lecture and Residency, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York, United States
1997Revelations, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, New York, United States
1997Writing Through the Arts, Greenburgh Central School, Hartsdale, New York, United States
1998The Arts Dialogue, Kean University, Union, New Jersey, United States
1999Industrial Subliminal-I-zation, Laumeier Sculpture Park and Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
1999Guest Lecturer, Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio, United States
2001Guest Speaker, Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, Shen Yang, Peoples Republic of China
2002Guest Speaker, Ramapo College, Mahwah, New Jersey, United States
2002Lecture/Panel Discussion, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey, United States
2002Lecturer, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, United States
2002Visiting Artist, Jamaica Art Center for Arts & Learning Inc., Jamaica, New York, United States
2003Lecturer, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California, United States
2003Guest Speaker, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States
2003Chakaia Booker: An Overview, San Jose State University, San Jose, California, United States
2003Sculpture in America – Provost’s Lecture Series, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, United States
2003Visiting Artist, University of Wisconsin- La Crosse, La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States
2003Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Paul Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, United States
2003Lecturer, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, United States
2003Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, United States
2003Guest Lecturer, The City College of New York, New York, New York, United States
2004Lecturer, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States
2004Intersections 2003 - 2004, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Manoa, Hawaii, United States
2004Lecturer with the Visiting Artist Program, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
2004Chakaia Booker, School of Art Exhibitions and Visiting Artists Programs, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
2004Lecturer, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States
2004Guest Lecturer, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States
2004Lecturer, Sculpture and Public Art Program, University of Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, United States
2004Lecturer, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
2004Women Society's Visiting Artist, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
2004Visiting Artist Program, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
2004Visiting Artist Program, Seattle Art Museum and the University of Washington Art School Public Art Program, Seattle, Washington, United States
2004Jersey Ride: Dialogue – Chakaia Booker, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
2004Visiting Artist Guest Lecturer - Chakaia Booker, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
2004Visiting Artist, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, United States
2004Visiting Arist Guest Lecturer, Grand Rapids Community College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
2004Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States
2004Visiting Artist/Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Sheboygan, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States
2004Guest Speaker, Ramapo College, Mahwah, New Jersey, United States
2004Guest Lecturer, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States
2004Teacher's Symposium, New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, New Jersey, United States
2004Career Day Guest, Patrick Francis Healy Middle School, East Orange, New Jersey, United States
2004Visiting Artist/Lecturer, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States
2004Friends of American Art, The Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey, United States
2004Speaker, Center for Creative Arts, Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
2004Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States
2004Visiting Artist/Lecturer Series, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
2004Art Club of Kutztown University Lecture, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, Kutztown, Pennsylvania, United States
2005African American Lecturers, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States
2005Lecturer, National Association of Women Artists, New York, New York, United States
2005Visual Voices - Professional Lecture Series, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, United States
2005Sculpture Club Visiting Artist Lecture Series, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
2005Lecturer, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona, New Jersey, United States
20052004-2005 Visiting Artist Series Chakaia Booker, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States
2005Visiting Artist Program, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
2005Over & Over: Passion as Process, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, United States
2005Lecture, University of Colorado at Denver and the Denver Art Museum Alliance for Contemporary Art, Denver, Colorado, United States
2005Visiting Artist and Lecturer, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky, United States
2006Lecture, New York and the Visual Arts, Pace University, New York, New York, United States
2006Visiting Artist and Lecturer, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York, United States
2006Forefront: Chakaia Booker, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., United States
2006Forefront: Chakaia Booker, Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia
2006Keynote Speaker, Crossroads Cincinnati 2006 Conference, International Sculpture Center, Hamilton, New Jersey, United States
2006Visiting Artist and Lecturer - Ellen Johnson, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, United States
2006Guest Speaker, Annual Museum Tea, Newark Museum Volunteer Organization, Newark, New Jersey, United States
2006Visual Studies Speakers Series, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, United States
2006Lecturer, The Putney School, Putney, Vermont, United States
2006Lecturer, Rutgers University, Brodsky Center, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
2006Sculpture and the Speakers Program, Towson University, Towson, Maryland, United States
2006Visual Voices - Professional Lecture Series, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, United States
2006Visiting Artist and Guest Lecturer, Rutgers Preparatory School, Somerset, New Jersey, United States
2006Lecturer, MICA/MFAST Program, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
2006Visiting Speaker, Montclair High School, Montclair, New Jersey, United States
2007Lecturer, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States
2007Artists Using Discards: Media & Message, Solid Waste and Recycling Conference, The Sagamore, Bolton Landing, New York, United States
2007Lecturer, Towson University, Towson, Maryland, United States
2007Artist Lecture for Whole Fragment, University of Nevada: Reno, Reno, Nevada, United States
2007Lecturer, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
2007Lecturer, University of Missouri - St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
2008Chakaia Booker - Guest Lecturer, Brooks Museum of Art, The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, United States
2008Guest Lecture Series, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States
2008Lecturer, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota, United States
2009When Does the Fun Begin: Overview, Spooner Hall, Kansas University, Lawrence, Kansas, United States
2009Provacative Visions: Race and Identity, Selections from the Permanent Collection, The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, United States
2009Lecturer, Music Recital Hall, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, United States
2007Booker, Chakaia. “Chakaia Booker on Louise Nevelson.” In The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson. New Haven: Yale University Press with the Jewish Museum, New York, New York. pp. 163-165
1989Rude Awakening, David Greenwalt, in collaboration with Aaron Russo, music by Jonathan Elias, edited by Paul Fried, film by David Greenwalt appeared as film extra
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2010Marlborough Chelsea. Look Again. New York: Marlborough Chelsea, 2010
2009Anonymous. "New sculpture to be dedicated March 26." ISU Newsroom, March 09, 2009
2009Anonymous. "Up Now: ‘Second Lives’, Museum of Arts and Design." ARTnews, vol. 108, no. 4, April 01, 2009
2009Britton, Cole. "Celebrated artist’s work comes to ISU Sculpture to be displayed in front of New Theater." Indiana Statesman, March 25, 2009
2009Cayce, Andrés. "La reina de desguace." Mujer Hoy, October 31, 2009
2009Crow, Kelly. "The Battle for Queens." The Wall Street Journal, August 07, 2009
2009Cutler, Jody B. "A Lineage is Not a Category." The International Review of African American Art, October 13, 2009, pp. 38-39. illustrated, p. 38
2009Pollack, Barbara. "Chakaia Booker: Marlborough Chelsea." ARTnews, June 01, 2009
2009Sims, Lowery Stokes. "Seeing Chakaia Booker’s Sculpture" In Chakaia Booker. New York: Marlborough Gallery, 2009
2009Weinberg, Lauren. "Corn and Bunyan." Time Out Chicago, Issue 224, June 11, 2009, p. 121
2008Anonymous. "Chakaia Booker." Art in America: Annual Guide 2008-2009, p. 34
2008Anonymous. "Chakaia Booker." Indianapolis Business Journal, July 24, 2008
2008Anonymous. "Chakaia Booker in Indianapolis, Kansas City." artnet.com, July 23, 2008
2008Anonymous. "Chakaia Booker sculpture unveiled in Hudson County Park." The Jersey Journal, October 16, 2008
2008Anonymous. "Chakaia Booker Transforms Salvaged Tires into Art at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art." artdaily.org, June 17, 2008
2008Anonymous. Chakaia Booker: Mass Transit. Indianapolis: Arts Council of Indianapolis, 2008
2008Anonymous. "Chakaia Booker: Mass Transit." Sculpture Magazine, vol. 27, no. 8, October 01, 2008
2008Anonymous. "Downtown Dedication Marks Debut of Public Art Exhibition." Inside Indiana Business with Gerry Dick, July 22, 2008
2008Anonymous. "Indy Art Exhibit Featured in The Wall Street Journal." Inside Indiana Business with Gerry Dick, July 28, 2008
2008Anonymous. "Off Road." The Pitch, July 03, 2008, p. 25
2008Anonymous. "RubberMade: Sculptures by Chakaia Booker." Sculpture Magazine, July 01, 2008, p. 15
2008Anonymous. "Smithsonian Celebrates NASA’s 50th Anniversary with Traveling Art Exhibition." The Chipley Bugle, September 26, 2008
2008Benner, Bill. "When the Rubber Meets the…Sidewalk!." INDYinsights with Bill Benner, July 14, 2008
2008Borman, Laurie. "Destination: Art for the Tired Soul." ontheroad.randmcnally.com, July 17, 2008
2008Bremer, D. Neil. Inside Out. Elmhurst: Elmhurst Art Museum, 2008
2008Cook, Christopher, et al. Rubbermade: Sculpture by Chakaia Booker. Kansas City: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008
2008Crow, Kelly. "The Michelin Woman." The Wall Street Journal, July 26, 2008 p. W2
2008Harry, Lou. "A&E: Booker Blitzes Downtown." Indianapolis Business Journal, July 26, 2008
2008Hatcher, Cole. "Ross Art Museum Features Eco-Friendly Exhibit." collegenews.org,, September 22, 2008
2008Heilenman, Diane. "Chakaia Booker: The Making of a Public Art Exhibition." The Courier-Journal, July 20, 2008
2008Hotchner, Holly, et al. Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary. New York: The Museum of Art and Design, 2008
2008Marshall, Konrad. "Public Art Treading New Ground: Tire Sculptures that Dot City to be Dedicated Today." The Indianapolis Star, July 22, 2008 pp. A1, A4
2008Saetre, Julie Cope. "Artful Retreads." The Indianapolis Star, July 13, 2008, pp. 2-13
2008Theodore, Jeff. "Art unveiled at Washington Park." The Jersey Journal, October 15, 2008
2008Theodore, Jeff. "Art work is big and shiny, and takes a place of pride in park." The Jersey Journal, October 16, 2008
2008Thibodeaux, Julianna. "ARTS: Tread on Me." NUVO: Indy’s Alternative Voice, August 13, 2008
2008Thorson, Alice. "Art Review: ‘RubberMade: Sculpture by Chakaia Booker." The Kansas City Star, June 21, 2008
2008Thorson, Alice. "Art Review: ‘RubberMade: Sculpture by Chakaia Booker." The American Sculptor, June 23, 2008
2008Walker, Steve. "Reviews: Tire Consequences." Review Magazine, June 06, 2008, p. 42
2008Whitson, Jennifer. "Installation of Booker art moves to July 14." Indianapolis Business Journal, June 16, 2008
2008Wilmeth, Renee. "The Rubber Meets the Road: Chakaia Booker’s tire sculptures debut this month, the edgiest in a series of public art exhibitions downtown. But can the program be sustained?." Indianapolis Monthly, July 01, 2008
2008Yates, Christopher. "Transformation: Message, material linked in ‘green’ works, found-object pieces." The Columbus Dispatch, November 09, 2008
2007Anonymous. "Artist Chakaia Booker to Produce Major Public Art Exhibition for Indianapolis in 2008." PRNewswire.com, November 22, 2007
2007Anonymous. Brodsky Center Ball: Auction Preview Catalogue.. New Brunswick: Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2007, p. 7
2007Anonymous. "Chakaia Booker – Public Art Exhibition for Indianapolis in 2008." The American Sculptor, November 17, 2007
2007Anonymous. "Critics picks: 2008. Rubbermaid: Chakaia Booker." The Kansas City Star, August 26, 2008
2007Anonymous. "Designed for Living." T: The New York Times Style Magazine, April 14, 2007, pp. 74-75 94
2007Bonetti, David. "Funky Meets Fantasy: Tires Recycled and Redeemed." St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 18, 2007 Section F
2007Hermanns, Ralph. New York, Of Course. Stockholm: Wetterling Gallery, 2007
2007Thorson, Alice. "Christopher Cook Named Curator at Kemper." The Kansas City Star, July 07, 2007
2007Veneciano, Jorge Daniel. “The Return of the Medusa and the Art of Chakaia Booker.” In Chakaia Booker. St. Louis: Gallery 210, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 2007
2007Walker, Jim. "Downtown’s a Gallery." The Indianapolis Star, September 26, 2007 p. A4
2007Whitson, Jennifer. "Next big (art) thing: Chakaia Booker? New York artist’s work may replace Opie’s." Indianapolis Business Journal, September 08, 2007
2006Anonymous. "Forefront: Chakaia Booker." Women in the Arts, June 01, 2006, pp. 8-9
2006Anonymous. "Memorial Art Gallery exhibits Extreme Materials." Canada Free Press, February 27, 2006
2006Brumer, Miriam. "Newark Between Us." artcritical.com, December 01, 2006
2006Castro, Jan Garden. "Reviews: Chakaia Booker." Sculpture Magazine, December 01, 2006, pp. 71-72
2006O'Sullivan, Michael. "Booker and Kepple: Extra Texture." The Washington Post, June 02, 2006 p. WE63
2005Anonymous. "Chakaia Booker. El poder intrínseco del material." El Punto de las Artes, April 29, 2005
2005Anonymous. Collection Remixed. New York: The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2005
2005Anonymous. "Houston - Double consciousness: Black conceptual art." The Art Newspaper, p. 3
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