Lorna Simpson (artist)

Nationality
American
Birth/Death
1960–

About

Born in 1960 in Brooklyn, NY, Lorna Simpson received her B.F.A. in photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1983, then a M.F.A. in visual arts at the University of California, San Diego in 1985. After completing her M.F.A., she then returned to her native Brooklyn, and has established herself as one of the premier artists of her generation. For more than twenty years, her photographic and film works have received wide acclaim for their conceptual sophistication, and their delicate balance of the poetic and the political, the ambiguous and the specific. For more information, visit the artist’s website.

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Lorna Simpson (born August 13, 1960) is an American photographer and multimedia artist whose works have been exhibited both nationally and internationally. In 1990, she became the first African-American woman to exhibit at the Venice Biennale. She came to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s with photo-text installations such as Guarded Conditions and Square Deal that questioned the nature of identity, gender, race, history and representation. Simpson continues to explore these themes in relation to memory and history using photography, film, video, painting, drawing, audio, and sculpture.

Artwork by Lorna Simpson