Walker is an architect, designer, artist, and business strategist. Walker grew up in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, Cornell University (B.Arch), and the School of The Art Institute of Chicago (MFA).
Walker’s visual art is focused on how structures of power affect the physical and virtual world in which we live. He has shown work at galleries in Chicago, New York, Ithaca, San Francisco, Rome, and Berlin. These showings have ranged from group shows to solo presentations and site specific installations beyond the context of the gallery.
As a writer, he co-authored and edited two monographs about the international architecture firm FGP Atelier: Especies and Progressions (Hatje Cantz, 2021). His primary interest is critical theory focused on art, the built environment, economics, and technology. This work led to the publication of Reframing American Culture: Towards a User-Owned Network and Exchange (2021) and the pending publication of Unf*cking Capitalism (2024).
As an entrepreneur, Walker has been on the founding executive team of 3 companies that he helped scale to 30+ team members within the first two years of operation. Most recently, he co-led Nomic Consulting where he helped companies adopt tokenization and blockchain technology. This work led him to co-found the venture studio Meta//Physical Innovations. Among the companies that grew out of this initiative was OurThings.
Walker currently serves as CEO of OurThings–an AI powered platform that creates a custom-tailored set of recommendations of home goods and furniture that helps users buy, manage, plan, and insure their collection throughout life.
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