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Lorna Simpson    (American, 1960)




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Biography
1960 Born in Brooklyn, New York
1983 B.F.A. in Photography, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1985 M.F.A. 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 Award Finalist, The 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, The Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
2008 Women’s Art: Women’s Vision Honoree, National Women's History Project
Resides in Brooklyn, New York

Exhibitions
2008 Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art, ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY
2008 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
2007 the BIG picture, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
2006 Lorna Simpson, American Federation of the Arts traveling show, the 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)
2005 Artists Interrogate: Race and Identity, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
2005 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
2005 Collection Remixed, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
2005 Contemporary Voices: Works from the UBS Collection, MoMA, New York, NY
2005 Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, Texas
2005 Double Exposure: African Americans Before and Behind the Camera, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
2005 Transcending Time: Recent Work by Bill Viola and Lorna Simpson, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
2005 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
2004 Public/Private, Auckland Triennial, Auckland, New Zealand
2004 Lorna Simpson, Walter E. Terhune Gallery, Owens Community College, Toledo, Ohio (solo)
2004 Lorna Simpson: Videos and Photographs, Galerie Obadia, Paris, France (solo)
2004 Lorna Simpson, The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, Ohio (solo)
2004 Lorna Simpson: 31, Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (solo)
2004 Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (solo)
2004 Lorna Simpson, Sean Kelly Gallery, NY (solo)
2004 Lorna Simpson: Corridor, Wohnmaschine, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2003 Lorna Simpson, Consejo Nacional Para la Cultura y las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico (solo)

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