Lorna Simpson

Lorna Simpson was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1960. Simpson received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York. Then later received her MFA from the University of California, San Diego. Simpson’s concentration is filmmaking and photography. She has been working in Fine Art for about 23 years. Simpson become well known artist in the mid-1980s. Being African American women she used culture and gender to interact with the multi-racial American lifestyle. In addition, she likes to question the semiotics of looking, exploring the construction of difference in human beings with her art. Artists such as David Hammons, Adrian Piper, and Felix-Gonzalez Torres influenced her work. Simpson was awarded the International center of photograph’s infinity award in 2010. Moreover, she holds the distinction of being the first African-American woman to exhibit her work in Italy’s Venice Biennale in 1990 and at the Museum of Modern art in New York. Simpson’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Miami Art Museum in Florida, New York’s Josh Baer Gallery, the Wadesworth Anteneum, the Whitney Museum of Art in New York, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. She is now living in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and daughter. Currently represented by Salon 94 in New York, New York.

I really like her work because I can really relate to her work, being a female from a minority group in the big society of the United States. I like how symbolic her photographs are. They are very simple but hold very deep meaning. She uses mainly white garments with her photographic work when she photographs females. In her more recent work she uses some black.

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