Lorna Simpson

Quick Facts

Full Name	Lorna Simpson
Occupation	Photographer
Date Of Birth	Aug 13, 1960(1960-08-13)
Age	64
Birthplace	Brooklyn
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Leo

Lorna Simpson Biography

Lorna Simpson is one of the most popular and richest Photographer who was born on August 13, 1960 in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

Lorna Simpson, born August 13, 1960, is an African-American photographer and multimedia artist. She made her name in the 1980s and 1990s with artworks such as Guarded Conditions and Square Deal. Her works have been included in numerous exhibitions both nationally and internationally. She is best known for her photo-text installations, photocollages, and films.

Simpson first came to prominence in the 1980s for her large-scale works that combined photography and text and defied traditional conceptions of sex, identity, race, culture, history, and memory. Primarily, Simpson is interested in exploring individual identities in her work and the intersectionality of identities. She is well known for her exploration of the black female identity, though she is also interested in all identities, in the American identity, in universal figures, and universality. Simpson is also interested in ambiguity in her work, she includes “gaps and contradictions so that not all the viewer’s questions are answered.” Simpson’s ambiguity often allows viewers to think, to take in her work and the larger questions that her work raises. Simpson’s “high level of conceptional sophistication and social awareness” has gained her much positive attention, as has her attention and use of political issues in her work. Simpson has “seized on conceptualism’s signature tropes-the grid, seriality, repletion, and, above all, language-to examine how our knowledge of the world comes to be organized.” Repetition of figures in “minimalist photographs” and text creates a “interplay of text and images” that “relies on repetition to make clear the difference that racialization makes.” Drawing on this work, she started to create large photos printed on felt that showed public but unnoticed sexual encounters. Recently, Simpson has experimented with film as well as continuing to work with photography. Simpson’s “interests in photography [has] always been paralleled by an interest in film, particularly in the way that one structurally builds sequences in film.” Simpson began working in film in 1997 with her work Call Waiting, she’s continued such work in subsequent years.

Lorna Simpson Net Worth

Lorna Simpson is one of the richest Photographer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Lorna Simpson 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Lorna Simpson was born on August 13, 1960 and grew up in Crown Heights, which is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. She attended the High School of Art and Design. Her parents – a Jamaican-Cuban father and African-American mother – had moved from the Midwest to New York and took her to numerous plays, museums, concerts and dance performances. In the summers, Simpson took courses at the Art Institute of Chicago while visiting her grandmother.

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Easy for Who to Say, Simpson’s work from 1989, displays five identical silhouettes of black women from the shoulders up wearing a white top that is similar to women portrayed in other of Simpson’s works. The women’s faces are obscured by a white-colored oval shape each with one of the following letters inside: A, E, I, O, U. Underneath the corresponding portraits are the words: Amnesia, Error, Indifference, Omission, Uncivil. In this work Simpson alludes to the racialization in ethnographic cinema and the revocation of history faced by many people of color. Also, the letters covering the faces suggest “intimate multiplicity of positions she might occupy and attitudes she might assume-“, these potential thoughts are stopped, abruptly, by the words, “undermining not only the subjective position the figure would seek but also her grasp on any recognizable position at all.”

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The figure slowly started to disappear from Simpson’s work around the end of 1992; where her focus was about wide-ranging aesthetic issues. Her interest in the human body remained during this time however she was trying to work through these issues without the image of the figure. In 1997, Simpson received the Artist-in-Residence grant from the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, where exhibited her works in photography. By the 2000s she had started exploring the medium of video installations to avoid a paralysis brought on by outside expectations. In 2001 she was awarded the Whitney Museum of Art Award, and in 2007, her work was featured in a 20-year retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in her hometown of New York City.

What is Lorna Simpson famous for?

Lorna Simpson 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.

How old is Lorna Simpson?

61 years (August 13, 1960)

What is the main thing that Lorna Simpson use in her art?

She uses photography, video and collage to explore identity – which means what makes us who we are – using her own experiences as a Black woman to inspire her work. She is most well known for her powerful artworks that combine photographs with words.

What influenced Lorna Simpson?

Lorna Simpson Much Lorna Simpson’s work was heavily influenced by the feminist movement of the 1980s. Black artists, specifically black female artists, during this time were a crucial aspect of highlighting the black experience.

What is today's art called?

The answer is simple: contemporary art is art made today by living artists. As such, it reflects the complex issues that shape our diverse, global, and rapidly changing world.