Karima Walker Portfolio



1.

GRAVES FOR THE RAIN

Tucson MOCA, 2024-2025

 

Sound and sculptural installation and durational performance, river soils, 4 channel audio, MAX software, research pamphlet

 

2.

 

SEERS

STEP Gallery, Phoenix AZ, 2026

Installation, multichannel video mapping, iPhones, audio, wood privacy screen, clay, water

 

3.

THE EARS HAVE EYES

SINE AND SYMBOL Intermedia Arts Festival, Wave Archive, Tucson AZ, 2025

 

Performance, livestreamed multichannel video, cell phones, Instagram, feedback, MAX patch

 
 

4.

Holding the Line

2025-ongoing

3D printed iPhones, slip casted with porcelain

 

5.

SECOND LIFE

2024

 

Video collage

 

6.

 

Nonviolent Communication 2024

Arcosanti Urban Laboratory, Cordes Junction AZ

Ceramic, gold leaf

 

7.

NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S 2025

 

Wave Archive, Tucson AZ, 2025

In collaboration with German Benincore
5 channel video installation and audio, red clay, broken glass collected from the sidewalks of Phoenix, AZ

 
 
 
 

8.

THE WITNESS

Don’t Let The Palm Trees Fool You, Modified Arts Gallery, Phoenix AZ, 2023

 

Video + image documentation of durational sweeping performance at 7th Street and Rio Salado Landfill in Phoenix, AZ

 
 
 
 

9.

THE FOUNT

2026

 

Stoneware ceramic fountain, water, iPhones, video, audio

 

10.

WAKING THE DREAMING BODY

Orindal Records/Keeled Scales, 2021

 

Song excerpt of album for vinyl and digital release

 
 
 
 

11.

ON OUR WAY TO THE HEADWATERS

2023

 

Video excerpt

 

12.

Family Archive

 

Parson’s Lodge speaker series, Yosemite National Park, 2021

Video for event in collaboration with Francisco Cantú, played during reading of Cantu’s essay “Shadows in the Valley”

 

13.

diøscuri

Biosphere 2, Oracle AZ, 2019

 

Stills of multi-media performance in the lung of the Biosphere 2, in collaboration with dancer/choreographer Nathanael Gregory Myers

 
 
 

14.

demos

Orindal Records/Keeled Scales, 2022

 

Song excerpt of album for vinyl and cassette release

 
 
 

15.

Are You Listening?

Freeflow Institute, Big Bend National Park, 2021

 

Score for group performance

 
 
 





Student Work Portfolio

All the below represents undergraduate work.

  1. 2025, Performance stills for a Socially Engaged art project where students are encouraged to created and challenge social forms through participatory performance. This student created a pop-up burger stand with bodily ingredients (hair, nails, etc.).

 
 

2. 2026, “Recontextualizing the object,” where students begin with simple conceptual gestures that recontextualize readymade objects.

 

3. 2025, Place-making, where students conduct research and site visits over several weeks. Students then write a proposal for a collaboration or intervention with their chosen site. This student installed an altar to protect her community at Food City.

 

4. 2025, Performance video excerpt for Socially Engaged art project, where students are encouraged to created and challenge social forms through participatory performance. This student took her grandmothers ashes out for a night on the town in Tempe, AZ.

 

5. 2026, The project is called “Performance: Prosthetic, Persona,” where students shape and document a performance using a prosthetic and/or a persona. This student situated video documentation of bodily scars alongside trees.

 

6. 2024, A raster collage where students created a Sci-fi world.

 

7. 2025, Place-making, where students conduct research and site visits over several weeks. Students then write a proposal for a collaboration or intervention with their chosen site. This student reflected the desert back to itself.

 

8. 2026, The project is called “Performance: Prosthetic, Persona,” where students shape and document a performance using a prosthetic and/or a persona.

 

9. Students were prompted to write a sonic mediation or graphic score.

 

10. 2025, The project is called “Performance: Prosthetic, Persona”, where students shape and document a performance using a prosthetic and/or a persona.

 

11. 2025, The project is called “Performance: Prosthetic, Persona”, where students shape and document a performance using a prosthetic and/or a persona. This student created an alter-ego for her artmaking self.

 

12. 2025, Place-making, where students conduct research and site visits over several weeks. Students then write a proposal for a collaboration or intervention with their chosen site. This student used “nature to frame nature.”

 

13. 2026, “Recontextualizing the object”, where students begin with simple conceptual gestures that recontextualize readymade objects.

 
 
 

14. 2025, Place-making, where students conduct research and site visits over several weeks. Students then write a proposal for a collaboration or intervention with their chosen site. This student created a guestbook for their immediate family in their home.

 

15. 2026, The project is called “Performance: Prosthetic, Persona”, where students shape and document a performance using a prosthetic and/or a persona.

 

16. 2025, The project is called “Performance: Prosthetic, Persona”, where students shape and document a performance using a prosthetic and/or a persona.

 

17. 2025, The project is called “Performance: Prosthetic, Persona”, where students shape and document a performance using a prosthetic and/or a persona. This student created a performance embodying the migrating Monarch as a critique of ICE.

 

18. 2025, The project is called “Performance: Prosthetic, Persona”, where students shape and document a performance using a prosthetic and/or a persona. This student created complex armor for self harm.

 
 
 

19. 2026, The project is called “Performance: Prosthetic, Persona,” where students shape and document a performance using a prosthetic and/or a persona. This student created a shoe with prescription pills for heels.

 

20. 2025, A raster collage where students created a Sci-fi world.