Hamza Walker is a curator, writer, and educator whose practice explores the rhetoric of race in the United States, racial identity, and politics. Ever since seeing avant-garde concerts and performances in late-1980s Chicago, he has felt compelled to share a boundless curiosity about art. In the ensuing years, Walker has curated dozens of exhibitions ranging from solo to thematic exhibitions; from the production of new work to career surveys. Prior to his role at The Brick, Walker served as Associate Curator/Director of Education at the Renaissance Society, a non-collecting museum of contemporary art on the University of Chicago campus, where he organized landmark exhibitions with artists such as Kerry James Marshall, William Pope.L, Danh Vo, Gaylen Gerber, and Mai-Thu Perret.
Recent exhibitions and installations at The Brick include Elizabeth Paige Smith: Unshade Me Of You (2025); Gregg Bordowitz: This Is Not A Love Song (2025); The Absolute Right to Exclude: Reflections on and Implications of Cheryl Harris’ Whiteness as Property (2021); and Postcommodity: Some Reach While Others Clap (2020). Walker holds a B.A. in Art History from the University of Chicago.