Building Material 19 Art & Architecture excerpts: Works by Corban Walker

Corban Walker
Corban Walker (born 1967, Dublin) gained recognition for his installations, sculptures and drawings that relate to his perception of scale and architectural constructs. Local, cultural and specific philosophies of scale are fundamental to how he defines and develops his work. He received his BFA from the National College of Art and Design, Ireland in 1992. His first solo exhibition in 1994 was at City Arts Centre, Dublin. He has since shown regularly at Green on Red Gallery. Walker’s work has been the subject of many international solo shows and has been selected for group museums exhibitions. He has realised eight public commissions for important institutions including Mitsubishi Estate Corp, Ltd. Tokyo and Royal Bank of Scotland, Dublin. His work is part of numerous public collections in Ireland including the Irish Museum of Modern Art and many private collections throughout the world. Walker has been awarded a Visual Arts Bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland on four occasions since 1995. Corban Walker first exhibited with PaceWildenstein in 2000 and subsequently in the gallery’s Logical Conclusions exhibition in 2005, before his second solo show Grid Stack in 2007. Walker moved to New York in 2004 where he is now based.