Lorna Simpson

Born in Brooklyn, NY, 1960
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

Education

1985
M.F.A., University of California, San Diego, CA

1983
B.F.A., School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008
Ink, Salon 94, New York, NY [cat.]

2007
Lorna Simpson: Duet, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY [cat.]

2006
Lorna Simpson, The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to Miami Art
Museum, Miami, FL; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts,
Kalamazoo, MI; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC [cat.]

2005
Lorna Simpson: 31, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada

2004
Lorna Simpson: 31, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Lorna Simpson: Corridor, Wohnmaschine, Berlin, Germany
Lorna Simpson: Videos / Photographies, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
Lorna Simpson: Photoworks and Films 1986-2002, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland [cat.]

2002
Lorna Simpson, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Lorna Simpson, Cameos and Appearances, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY [cat.]

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008
Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art, International Center of Photography, New York, NY [cat.]

2007
Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970, Spelman College
Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta GA; traveling to Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX [cat.]

2006
Masquerade: Representation and the Self in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney,
Australia [cat.]

2005
Contemporary Voices: Works from The UBS Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970, The Brown Foundation Gallery, Contemporary
Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX [cat.]

2004
PUBLIC/PRIVATE: Tumatanui/Tumataiti, 2nd Auckland Triennial, Auckland, New Zealand [cat.]
Depicting Love, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany [cat.]
Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY [cat.]

2003
Whitney Biennial 2002, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL [cat.]

Selected Collections

Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY