Lorna Simpson

Place: Brooklyn

Born: 1960

Biography:

Lorna Simpson is an American photographer and multimedia artist whose works have been exhibited both nationally and internationally. She came to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s with photo-text installations such as Guarded Conditions and Square Deal that questioned the nature of identity, gender, race, history and representation. Simpson continues to explore these themes in relation to memory and history using photography, film, video, painting, drawing, audio, and sculpture. In 1990, she became the first African-American woman to exhibit at the Venice Biennale.