Lorraine O'Grady

African American conceptual artist (1934-2024) · United States · Artists · Died at 90

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O'Grady as Mlle Bourgeoise Noire

Awards

Guggenheim Fellowship2024

Anonymous Was A Woman Award2008

In common with Lorraine

Alison SaarBoth received Anonymous Was A Woman Award Mierle Laderman UkelesBoth received Anonymous Was A Woman Award

Alison KnowlesBoth received Anonymous Was A Woman Award

Joan JonasBoth received Anonymous Was A Woman Award

Mickalene ThomasBoth received Anonymous Was A Woman Award Carrie Mae WeemsBoth received Anonymous Was A Woman Award

About this person

Lorraine O'Grady was an American artist, writer, translator, and critic. Working in conceptual art and performance art that integrates photo and video installation, she explored the cultural construction of identity - particularly that of Black female subjectivity - as shaped by the experience of diaspora and hybridity. O'Grady studied at Wellesley College and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop before becoming an artist at the age of 45. Regarding the purpose of art, O'Grady said in 2016: "I think art's first goal is to remind us that we are human, whatever that is. I suppose the politics in my art could be to remind us that we are all human."

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United States