Lorna Simpson

(American, born 1960)

double portrait by lorna simpson

Lorna Simpson

Double Portrait, 2013

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Biography

Timeline

1960
Born in Brooklyn, NY
1983
BFA in Photography, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1985
MFA in Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, CA
1989
Artists’ Space Board of Directors, New York, NY
1990
Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, New York, NY
1994
College Art Association
1998
Finalist, Hugo Boss Prize 1998, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, NY
2001
The Whitney Museum of American Art Award sponsored by Cartier and the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, New York, NY
2003
Distinguished Artist-In-Residence, Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
2008
Women’s Art: Women’s Vision Honoree, National Women's History Project

Exhibitions

2010
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (solo)
2008
Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art, International Center of Photography, New York City, NY
Mixed Emotions, Apuntes para une coleccion del signlo XXI, DA2 - Domus Artium 2002 Salamanca
2007
Beauty and the Blonde: An Exploration of American Art and Popular Culture, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
the BIG picture, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
2006
Lorna Simpson, American Federation of the Arts traveling show, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL.; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Gibbes Museum, Charleston, SC (solo)
2005
Lorna Simpson: 31, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (solo)
Artists Interrogate: Race and Identity, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Bodies of Evidence: Work by Women of Color in the Museum’s Collection, The Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Collection Remixed, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
Contemporary Voices: Works from the UBS Collection, MoMA, New York, NY
Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, Texas
Double Exposure: African Americans Before and Behind the Camera, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
Transcending Time: Recent Work by Bill Viola and Lorna Simpson, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Adams and 21 Eves: Women Photographers from the Vault, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
2004
Beginning Here: 101 Ways, School of Visual Arts, NY
Public/Private, Auckland Triennial, Auckland, New Zealand
Lorna Simpson, Walter E. Terhune Gallery, Owens Community College, Toledo, Ohio (solo)
Lorna Simpson: Videos and Photographs, Galerie Obadia, Paris, France (solo)
Lorna Simpson, The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, Ohio (solo)
Lorna Simpson: 31, Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (solo)
Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (solo)
Lorna Simpson, Sean Kelly Gallery, NY (solo)
Lorna Simpson: Corridor, Wohnmaschine, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2003
Lorna Simpson, Consejo Nacional Para la Cultura y las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico (solo)
2001
Lorna Simpson, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Scenarios: Recent Work by Lorna Simpson, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI; The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; and Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2000
Scenarios: Recent Work by Lorna Simpson, Artist in Residence, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA (solo)
1999
Scenarios: Recent Work by Lorna Simpson, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (solo)
Lorna Simpson, CCA Kitakyushu Project Gallery, Japan (solo)

Literature

2005
“April 2006 Preview: Lorna Simpson,” Art in America: Annual Guide, No. 7, August 2005, p. 45
Copeland, Huey, “‘Bye, Bye Black Girl’: Lorna Simpson’s Figurative Retreat,” art journal, Vol. 64, No. 2, Summer 2005, pp. 62-78
Derieux, Florence, “Lorna Simpson,” Flash Art, March-April 2005, pp. 122-123
Hanor, Stephanie, “Collectors XX: Building A Museum Collection,” View, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, April/May/June 2005, p.3
Julian, Betty, “Lorna Simpson,” Images Festival 2005 Guide [Toronto,Canada], pp. 47-49
Lamoureux, Johanne, “From Form to Platform: The Politics of Representation and the Representation of Politics,” art journal,Vol. 64, No. 1, Spring 2005, pp. 65-73
“Lorna Simpson, le noir dans la peau,” Le Figaro Littéraire, Thursday, January 20th, 2005
MacSweeney, Eve, “Golden Year,” Vogue, Vol. 195, No. 4, April 2005, pp. 348-351
Milroy, Sarah, “At The Galleries: Lorna Simpson,” The Globe And Mail, Friday, April 8th, 2005
Nochlin, Linda, et. al. “The New Modern: Itineraries,” Art in America, March 2005, pp. 51-59