sky walker

Skylar (Sky) Walker is a Black American artist from Atlanta, Georgia. Growing up in a city with a rich history of racial justice, the city has inspired her to delve into a fantastical realm of Black self-exploration and liberation using art direction, sculpture, collage, and video installation. The fragmentation of figures in her work, executed by collaging parts of the body or casting parts of her body, is analogous to the fragmented, multifaceted nature of her identity and her Black experience. Viewers get glimpses of, not just who she is, but how she experiences her Blackness. Through her work, she challenges existing paradigms of Blackness, offering glimpses into a Black world that is both within and beyond our immediate grasp.

She is currently pursuing a degree in Cultural Comparative Analysis at the University of Amsterdam after obtaining two degrees in Sociology and Art Practice at Stanford University. During her artist career, she has been a 2023 Institute for Diversity in the Arts Fellow and a 2024 Lyric McHenry Fellow. She has also exhibited work all throughout the Bay Area, including Good Mother Studio, SOMArts Center, and Bass & Reiner Gallery.