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Lorna Simpson

Lorna Simpson (Born 1960) is active/lives in New York, California / Europe.  Lorna Simpson is 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 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 confront and challenge narrow, conventional views of gender, identity, culture, history and memory. With u   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6912 characters.]  Artist bio

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