Chakaia Booker

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Chakaia Booker

American, founded 1953

BiographyChakaia Booker was born in New Jersy in 1953. She learned many of the material repair and manipulation tactics, later used in her art practice, from female family members who taught her to sew. She attended Rutgers University in 1976 before receiving an MFA from the City College of New York in 1993.
Booker has lived and worked in New York City since the 1980s. In the 1990s, her work began to incorporate construction materials and her signature rubber tires. This medium shift contributed to her development of more large-scale sculptures in which she manipulates recycled rubber tires into complex and curvilinear forms.
Booker has been the subject of solo exhibitions and shown nationally and internationally. Her works are in the collections of several institutions, including the National Gallery of Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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