Jade+Walker
 

About

Jade Walker is a sculptor and an active member of the arts community living in Austin, Texas. She received her BFA from The University of Florida and her MFA from The University of Texas at Austin. Walker's soft sculptures consist of her personal struggle with spectatorship, binaries within gender and race, abstraction, narrative, found objects, desire, and the body as temporal. Her work has been included in solo exhibitions at the Elisabet Ney Museum (Austin, TX), the Austin Museum of Art (now The Contemporary Austin), Blue Star Contemporary Arts (San Antonio, TX), Dimension Gallery (Austin, TX), Lawndale Art Center (Houston, TX), The Museum of Pocket Art (Austin, TX and traveling).

Most recently, Walker has completed a Facebook Artist in Residency, participated in a group exhibition titled The Bartlett Project curated by Leslie Moody Castro along with temporary commissions from the City of Austin and Big Medium. She is looking forward to her upcoming solo exhibition at Women & Their Work (Austin, TX)  and a two-person exhibition at Art Fort Worth with artist Margaret Meehan. 

In recent years, Walker held the position of Executive Director at the Visual Arts Center at The University of Texas, Director of Austin Art Alliance Austin as well as studio manager for artist Deborah Roberts. In the past, she participated in the the City of Austin’s Art in Public Places as a panel member as well as steering committee member for The Art Galleries at Black Studies at The University of Texas.  She currently serves on the board of Austin Art Alliance. Her teaching roles have included that of lecturer at The University of Texas at Austin, arts instructor at The Contemporary Austin at Laguna Gloria in addition to artist talks with various groups and institutions including Texas State University and the Utah Museum of Art. 

Contact: jadeloriwalker@gmail.com

IG: jadewalker_studio