Lorna Simpson (born August 13, 1960) is an American photographer and multimedia artist whose works have been exhibited both nationally and internationally. In 1990, she became one of the first African-American woman to exhibit at the Venice Biennale. [1] .

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Lorna Simpson (born August 13, 1960) is an American photographer and multimedia artist whose works have been exhibited both nationally and internationally. In 1990, she became one of the first African-American woman to exhibit at the Venice Biennale.

Lorna Simpson, American photographer whose work explored stereotypes of race and gender, most often with an emphasis on African American women. She was the first African American woman to exhibit at the Venice Biennale (1990).

As an African American woman growing up in the United States, Lorna Simpson has kept her artistic gaze fixated on investigating the complex and convoluted permutations of what her particular identity ingrained upon her personal psyche and the communal consciousness of a nation bred on systemic racism.

Lorna Simpson first became well-known in the early 1990s for her large- scale photograph-and-text works that confront and challenge narrow, conventional views of gender, identity, culture, history and memory.

Lorna Simpson is an American artist, born in 1960, who lives and works in New York. 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.