Lorraine O’Grady (American, born )

Timeline

1934
Born: Boston, MA
1955
Received a B.A. from Wellesley College. Economics–Spanish Literature, Wellesley, MA
1983
Received the New York State Council on the Arts Fellowship
Received the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
2008
Received the Senior Fellow, Vera List Center for Art and Politics, New School University, New York, NY
2010
Awarded the Object of the Month (August) Miscegenated Family Album, Brooklyn Museum, NY
2011
Awarded the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow in Visual Art, New York, NY
Received the Art Matters, Inc. Project Grant, New York, NY

Exhibitions

2012
New Worlds, Alexander Gray Associates, NY (solo)
Blues for Smoke, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA, Curator: Bennett Simpson
Shift: Projects | Perspectives | Directions, Studio Museum, Harlem, New York
This Will Have Been: Art, Love, & Politics in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, Curator: Helen Molesworth
2011
Rose O’Grady, with Tracey Rose, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, SA
Xenosphere score included in Clifford Owens, Anthology, MOMA/PS1, New York, NY
Past Desire, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria
Re.Act.Feminism.2. Exhibition, plus performance archive. Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2010
Miscegenated Family Album, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO (solo)
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY , Curators: Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari
Extended Family: Contemporary Connections, Brooklyn Museum Contemporary Galleries, Brooklyn, NY
2009
ndercover: Performing and Transforming Black Female Identities, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
2008
Miscegenated Family Album, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (solo)
2007
Persistant, Artspace, San Antonio, TX (solo)
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, MOCA, Los Angeles, Curator: Cornelia Butler
Role Play: Feminist Art Revisited 1960-1980, Gallery Lelong, New York, NY
2006
Between the Lines, Daniel Reich Gallery Temp, Chelsea Hotel, New York, NY, Curator: Nick Mauss
2005
Creating Their Own Image: African-American Women Artists, Parsons School of Design, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, New York, NY
2004
African American Artists in Los Angeles, A Survey Exhibition: Part One, Fade (1990–2003), Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
2003
The Space Between: Artists Engaging Race and Syncretism, Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
2002
Space Program, Ace Gallery, New York, NY
2001
Love Supreme, La Criée Centre d’Art Contemporain, Rennes, France, Curator: Elvan Zabunyan
2000
Public Voices, Private Visions: African American Art 2000, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY
Déjà Vu: Reworking the Past, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
Blondies and Brownies, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, curated by Rafael von Uslar
1999
Re/Righting History: Counternarratives by Contemporary African-American Artists, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, curated by Barbara J. Bloemink
1998
Sexing Myths: Representing Sexuality in African American Art, Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, curated by Kymberly Pinder
Re: Duchamp/Contemporary Artists Respond to Marcel Duchamp’s Influence, Abraham Lubelsky Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Mike Bidlo
Composite Persona, San Diego State University, University Art Gallery, San Diego, CA, curated by Tina Yapelli and Lynn La Bate
1997
dentity Crisis: Self Portraiture at the End of the Century, curated by Dean Sobel Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
1996
New Histories, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, Curator: Milena Kalinovska
“Incandescent” section of NowHere, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, Curator: Laura Cottingham
Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago's Dinner Party in Feminist History, Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, Curators: Amelia Jones and Elizabeth Shepherd.
1995
Lorraine O’Grady/Matrix 127, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, curated by Andrea Miller-Keller
1994
The Body As Measure, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, MA, Curator: Judith Hoos Fox
Outside the Frame: Performance & The Object, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, Curators: Olivia Georgia and Robin Brentano.
1993
Photo Images: 1980–91, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY
1992
Revealing the Self: Portraits by Twelve Contemporary Artists, Bronx Museum/PaineWebber Art Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Grace Stanislaus
1991
Critical Interventions: Photomontages, Intar Gallery, New York, NY
English (US)

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