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Lorna Simpson
b. 1960, Brooklyn, New York, USA · American · Based in Brooklyn, New York, USA
- MFA, University of California, San Diego (1985)
- BFA, School of Visual Arts, New York (1982)
- Photo-Text Works
- Monumental Ice Paintings
- Collage
- Sculpture
Lorna Simpson emerged in the 1980s with photographic works that pair cropped images of Black women with short textual fragments, complicating assumptions about identity, gender and documentary truth. Her later practice expanded into film, collage and large paintings based on archival imagery, landscape and ice.
Photography; collage; film; painting
Gallery Representation
Artist Films
Lorna Simpson – 'Everything I Do Comes from the Same Desire' | TateShots
Major Works
- 1989Guarded Conditions
- 1988Stereo Styles
- 1986Waterbearer
- 1986Twenty Questions (A Sampler)
- 1989Necklines
- 1994Wigs
- 2001Easy to Remember
- 2013Chess
- 2010sIce series
- 2011Heads
Museums & Public Collections
Interviews & Writing
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