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Born 1960 Brooklyn, New York. Known for: Photo-text installations, sculpture, photography screeenprints, collage.
Lorna Simpson lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York in 1983, and her MFA from the University of California, San Diego in... Read full biography
Lorna Simpson lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York in 1983, and her MFA from the University of California, San Diego in 1985. When Lorna Simpson emerged from the graduate program at San Diego in 1985, she was already... Read full biography
Lorna Simpson lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York in 1983, and her MFA from the University of California, San Diego in 1985. When Lorna Simpson emerged from the graduate program at San Diego in 1985, she was already considered a pioneer of conceptual photography. Feeling a strong need to re-examine and re-define photographic practice for contemporary relevance, Simpson was producing work that engaged the conceptual... Read full biography
Lorna Simpson lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York in 1983, and her MFA from the University of California, San Diego in 1985. When Lorna Simpson emerged from the graduate program at San Diego in 1985, she was already considered a pioneer of conceptual photography. Feeling a strong need to re-examine and re-define photographic practice for contemporary relevance, Simpson was producing work that engaged the conceptual vocabulary of the time by creating exquisitely crafted documents that are as clean and spare as the closed, cyclic systems of meaning they produce. Her initial body of work alone helped to incite a significant shift in the view of the photographic... Read full biography
Lorna Simpson lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York in 1983, and her MFA from the University of California, San Diego in 1985. When Lorna Simpson emerged from the graduate program at San Diego in 1985, she was already considered a pioneer of conceptual photography. Feeling a strong need to re-examine and re-define photographic practice for contemporary relevance, Simpson was producing work that engaged the conceptual vocabulary of the time by creating exquisitely crafted documents that are as clean and spare as the closed, cyclic systems of meaning they produce. Her initial body of work alone helped to incite a significant shift in the view of the photographic art’s transience and malleability. She first became well-known in the mid-1980s for her large- scale photograph-and-text works that confro... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Conceptual
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Installation Art
- •Words, Text, Calligraphy, Letters
Art Media
- •Acrylic Paint
- •Bronze
- •Gesso
- •Ink
- •Ink Wash
- •Video Art, Documentary Photo, Cinema, Filmmaking
- •Wood for carving, sculpture, and/or surface
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Africa
- •Europe
Art Teacher
- •Allan Kaprow
- •Eleanor Antin
Art School
- •School of Industrial Art, New York City, Student
- •School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Black, African-American and/or Caribbean
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Venice Biennale
Exhibition of Museum
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Studio Museum, Harlem