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Flowing Water, 2025
Milwaukee
Above, Below, Within: Ciarra K. Walters is my first solo presentation of my performance practice at the Bronzeville Center for the Arts in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Curated by Phoenix Brown, this exhibition features 11 films from around the country and world, one printed photograph, and one site-specific piece, showcasing my movement work over the last six years.
I am deeply honored to share my work with the people and city of Milwaukee and look forward to returning.
This show is on view until August 14, 2026.
Opening Reception: March 26, 2026, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Location: 507 W North Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53212
Collect the Fragility Performance #3
Limited Edition Postcards
My favorite gift to give is an art postcard. For years, I have collected postcards from galleries and museum stores nationwide. Every few years, I release a limited-edition postcard to collect. This year, I chose eight photographs from my 2025 Fragility Performance #3, in Brooklyn, New York.
Photographs are by Evelyn Lee.
Each postcard is signed, dated, and printed on heavy 16-17pt stock paper.
Collect here.
Los Angeles
I am extremely proud to announce my participation in my first museum exhibition, Giving you the best that I got. An exploration of Black motherhood, through images and narratives of Black mothers, from pregnancy to the forever journey of what it means to be a mother, Giving you the best that I got features artists who make work that intentionally foregrounds Black women and matrilineal histories, and artists whose work shows an appreciation for them through themes of nostalgia, care, and cultural inheritance.
This exhibition is presented by The California African American Museum and is on view at Art + Practice. On view is my 8mm film "Eileen's Daughters" and three never-before-seen 30 in x 36in eggshell paintings.
Gallery: Art + Practice
3401 W. 43rd Place, Los Angeles, CA 90008
On View: October 11, 2025 - March 7, 2026
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Artists in Exhibition: Derrick Adams, Kwame Brathwaite, Bisa Butler, Karon Davis, Kenturah Davis, Lanise Howard, February James, Ashley January, Shaniqwa Jarvis, Jill Knox, Lex Marie, Danielle Mckinney, Helina Metaferia, Calida Rawles, Harmonia Rosales, Jill Knox, Jamel Shabazz, Ferrari Sheppard, Shefon N. Taylor, Sydney Vernon, Ciarra K. Walters, and Carrie Mae Weems.
Chicago
Inspired by Toni Morrison’s canonical text Beloved, this exhibition engages approaches to art making through the gesture and concept of the mark taken up by Black contemporary artists, who turn the art historical form of mark making on its head
In the works on view, artists contend with the marks of displacement, colonialism, migration, birth, and beauty, as they repurpose, refabricate, and reorient materials to reflect on how they might carry them through their practice.
On view are 12 Fragility Suits, 4 eggshell paintings, and the 8mm film, Eileen's Daughters. I will be reenacting the Fragility Performance on September 12th at 6 p.m.
Gallery: Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
On View: August 9, 2025 - December 14, 2025.
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Flyer Designed by Ciarra K. Walters
Artwork by Ashley Dequilla
Baltimore
I am thrilled to announce my participation and co-curation in What They Left Us, a group exhibition featuring eight Filipino American artists in the Mid-Atlantic region.
This exhibition is curated by me and the artist, Anna Divinagracia.
It has been an exhibition in the making since the fall of last year.
What They Left Us speaks to the inherited rituals, family archives, and everyday gestures of care. The featured artists consider how art becomes a means of holding onto and reshaping what is passed down, examining the complex nature of identity, community, and presence as Filipino-Americans today.
Read and see the exhibition here.
Gallery: Alchemy of Art
1637 Eastern Ave, Baltimore, MD, 21231
On View: July 3, 2025 - August 2, 2025
Scout Art Fair
Last May, I was featured in Baltimore’s inaugural Scout Art Fair, curated by Derrick Adams and Teri Henderson. This was my first time participating in an art fair, and I am proud to have presented pieces from my recent body of work, alongside a selection of silkscreen prints from my thesis work.
I spent four days painting (Green for the Heart Chakra), curating, and installing my booth before working my booth from Thursday night until Sunday evening. On VIP opening night, the Director of the Baltimore Museum of Art, Asma Naeem, collected a silkscreen print and just happened to be my first sale!
You can read more about the work and installation process in my last Artletter here.
This booth was co-curated by Breeana Thorne. Without her, it would not look like this.
An Artletter
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I attended Frieze LA for the first time in seven years. Discover my highlights and take away from the fair here.
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In this Artletter read about my walk-through for Art + Practice and discover what artworks are available to collect.
A Rememberance goes through my journey making art piece, a wind chime, for our What They Left Us.
Read and listen here
The first on my list for top exhibitions of 2025, is Jack Whitten's The Messenger at MoMA. Read more here.
I talk about my love for postcards and my newest limited edition set of postcards available. Read more here.
In this Artletter, I talk about our exhibition, What They left Us, and tracing my own Filipino past. Read here.
In part three of my list for top exhibitions of 2025, I talk about the phenomal exhibition, Frida Kahlo: Beyond the Myth. Read here.
I share why I collected Ringgold's Sunflower's Quilting Bee of Arles and discuss the history behind her painting, For the Women's House. Read here.
Read about my gallery hopping days in New York City and my reflections on being in my first art fair here.
In three parts I highlight my top exhibitions of 2025. Read about Yoko Ono's Music of the Mind at the MCA here.
Broken Shells As My Armour dives deeper into the Fragility Suit and Performance.
Read or listen here.
Highlights
I made a reel about the Fragility Performance from Mark Me, Too in Chicago.
Good Black Art recently highlighted me in their "Artist Spotlight" series. This time last year, the founder, Phillip, did a walk-through of my MFA thesis show at MICA, and now, a year later, they are showcasing that same work in this video.
Watch my interview!
During Frieze, I held a walkthrough with curator Dominque Clayton at Art + Practice for the exhibition, Giving you the best that I got.
Watch the short recap from A+P Instagram.
Chicago Press on Mark Me, Too
Press on What They Left Us
In Loving Memory of Eileen C. Walters
While your spirit flies high,
Our memories float through my mind.
As the years pass by,
I understand you more.
My guiding light,
From the womb,
To my many cycles of life,
You are my forever.
I love you,
I miss you.
Your daughter,
Ciarra K. Walters
www.ciarrakwalters.com
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