Misra Walker (b. 1992)

is a Bronx-based community organizer, educator, and interdisciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation, and moving images. Guided by Marvin Gaye’s question, “What’s going on?”, Walker examines what is going on under capitalism-imperialism.  A lived system shaped by histories of class oppression, patriarchy, and white supremacy, a system that haunts bodies, families, labor, and working-class communities. Using everyday materials, archives, storytelling, and play, their work brings interconnected struggles into conversation, exposing systemic violence while opening possibilities for collective refusal and liberation.

Walker has exhibited and screened work at venues including Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), Smack Mellon, Microscope Gallery, Westbeth Gallery, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Crisis Galería (Lima), Undocumenta (Kassel), and venues in Berlin and Vancouver. Walker holds an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and a BFA from The Cooper Union.

My work is for and made possible by:
The workers who cut fresh sugarcane and bag fronto leaves
The comrades who jump over turnstiles
The folks who have multiple tongues
The lands that inspire revolutions

Photo by Roy Baizan