New York-based artist Kara Walker is best known for her candid investigation of race, gender, sexuality, and violence through the medium of the cut paper silhouette. Born in Stockton, California in 1969, Walker studied at the Atlanta College of Art (BFA, 1991) and the Rhode Island School of Design (MFA, 1994). In spring 2014, Creative Time presented Walker’s first large scale public project. Sited at the abandoned Domino Sugar refinery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the project – a massive sugar covered sphinx-like sculpture – responded to and reflected on troubled history of sugar.