Lorna Simpson

Lorna Simpson (born 1960) Lorna Simpson was born in 1960 in Brooklyn, New York. She was trained at the School of Visual Arts in New York and then at the University of California, San Diego. She began her career as a documentary photographer and, though her work maintains its roots in the documentary photography tradition, addressing themes of cultural, political, and social significance, it has moved farther and farther from photography per se. She is best known for her series of life-size "portraits" of African-American women in which most of the models' facial features "twist" or problematize the image itself. An example is Necklines. In 2007, Simpson had a 20-year retrospective of her work at the Whitney Museum of American Art in her hometown of New York City -
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Excerpt of Interview with Lorna Simpson by Siri Engberg and Sarah Cook
March 9, 1999


Her Works

Exploring Identity as a Problematic Condition

"Neckline"

Wigs