约翰·沃克（John Walker）于1939年出生于英格兰的伯明翰。他于1956年至1960年在伯明翰艺术学院学习，并继续在罗马的英国学校(1960 - 1961年)和巴黎(1961 - 63年)的法兰西学院(The academy de la Grande Chaumiere)学习。

沃克曾是利兹大学的格雷戈里研究员(1967 - 1969)。沃克于1969年至70年来到美国，并于1981年获得了古根海姆奖学金。1972年，他代表英国参加威尼斯双年展。

他曾在纽约的现代艺术博物馆举办过个展。作品在华盛顿特区的菲利普斯收藏馆，泰特美术馆，伦敦;伦敦的海沃德画廊，汉堡艺术协会，澳大利亚悉尼新南威尔士艺术画廊和其他一些地方展出。

沃克曾是牛津大学(1977 - 79) 和莫纳什大学(1980年)的艺术家。他曾在伦敦的皇家学院和耶鲁大学任教。自1992年以来，他一直在波士顿大学(Boston University)的绘画和雕塑研究生课程任教。约翰·沃克居住在波士顿、马萨诸塞州和缅因州的南布里斯托尔。

John Walker was born in 1939 in Birmingham, England. He studied at Birmingham College of Art from 1956 to 1960, and continued his studies at The British School in Rome (1960-61), and The Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris (1961–63).

Walker was a Gregory Fellow at Leeds University (1967-1969). Awarded The Harkness Fellowship, Walker came to the United States in 1969–70 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1981. In 1972 he represented Britain in the Venice Biennale.

He has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in NY; The Phillips Collection in DC; The Tate Gallery, London; The Hayward Gallery in London; The Kunstverein, Hamburg; The Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia; and others.

Walker was an artist-in-residence at Oxford University (1977–79), and at Monash University, Melbourne (1980). He has taught at the Royal College in London and at Yale University. Since 1992, He has been teaching at Boston University’s Graduate Program in Painting and Sculpture. John Walker resides and works in Boston, Massachusetts and in South Bristol, Maine.