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LORRAINE O’GRADY

Born September 21, 1934, Boston, MA.
Based in New York, NY.

Gallery:
Mariane Ibrahim Gallery
Chicago | Paris | Mexico City
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Archive:
Wellesley College Library, Wellesley, MA
Lorraine O’Grady Papers, 1952-2012
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Education

1951    H.S., Girls Latin School, Boston, MA. Honors in English and Latin, First Place in History. National Honor Society.
1956    B.A., Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA. Major: Economics. Minor: Spanish Literature. Freshman Honors.
1965-67    M.F.A. Candidate, Iowa Writers Workshop, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. Fiction.

Performances

1979-80     The Dual Soul—Part 1: Divine Twins; Part 2: Come Into Me, You.  Written for performance-artist protagonist (…)
1980    Rosie O’Grady’s Pub, NYC.  Sweet Rosie O’Grady.  Private guerrilla performance.
1980    Just Above Midtown Gallery, NYC.  Mlle Bourgeoise Noire Goes to JAM.  Guerrilla performance.
1980    Just Above Midtown Gallery, NYC.  Nefertiti/Devonia Evangeline. Director: Linda Goode-Bryant.
1981    Elizabeth Irwin High School, NYC.  Nefertiti/Devonia Evangeline.  In “Acting Out: The First Political Performance Art Series.”  (…)
1981    Just Above Midtown Gallery, NYC.  Gaunt Gloves.  Performance and lecture by Mlle Bourgeoise Noire.
1981    New Museum for Contemporary Art, NYC. Mlle Bourgeoise Noire Goes to the New Museum.   Guerrilla performance.
1981    Feminist Art Institute, NYC.  Nefertiti/Devonia Evangeline.
1982    Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH. Nefertiti/Devonia Evangeline.  Curator: William Olander.
1982    Central Park, NYC.  Rivers, First Draft.  In “Art Across the Park.” Curators: Gilbert Coker and Horace Brockington.
1983    Franklin Furnace, NYC. Fly By Night.
1983    Afro-American Day Parade, Harlem, USA.  Art Is….  A Mlle Bourgeoise Noire event.  Funded by New York State Council on the Arts.
1989    Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD. Nefertiti/Devonia Evangeline.   [Last performance of this work]
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Education

1955          B.A., Wellesley College. Economics–Spanish Literature
1965-67    M.F.A. Candidate, Iowa Writers Workshop, University of Iowa. Fiction.

Select Individual Exhibitions

2025    Spagnuolo Art Gallery, Georgetown University, Washington D.C. Lorraine O’Grady: Miscegenated Family Album
2025    Mariane Ibrahim, Paris, France. Lorraine O’Grady.
2024    Glenstone Museum, Potomac, MD. Lorraine O’Grady: Cutting Out CONYT.
2024    Mariane Ibrahim, Chicago, IL. The Knight, or Lancela Palm-and-Steel.
2024    Davis Museum, Wellesley College, MA. Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And.
2022    Alexander Gray Associates, NY. Body Is the Ground of My Experience.
2021    Brooklyn Museum, NY. Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And.
2020    Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA. Lorraine O’Grady: The Strange Taxi, Stretched.
2018    Alexander Gray Associates, NYC. Lorraine O’Grady: Cutting Out CONYT.
2018    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. Lorraine O’Grady: Family Gained.
2016    Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, ES. Lorraine O’Grady.
2015    Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Lorraine O’Grady: Where Margins Become Centers.
2015    Studio Museum in Harlem, NY. Lorraine O’Grady: Art Is….
2015    Alexander Gray Associates, NY. Lorraine O’Grady.
2012    Alexander Gray Associates, NY. Lorraine O’Grady: New Worlds.
2011    Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, SA. Rose O’Grady, with Tracey Rose.
2010    Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO. Miscegenated Family Album.
2008    Art Institute of Chicago, Permanent Collection, Miscegenated Family Album.
2007    Artpace, San Antonio, TX. Video installation: Persistent.
1999    Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria.  Lorraine O’Grady/New Histories.
1995    Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT.  Lorraine O’Grady/Matrix 127.
1993    Thomas Erben Gallery, NY. Lorraine O’Grady: Photo Images 1980-91
1991    INTAR Gallery, NYC.  Lorraine O’Grady: Critical Interventions / Photomontages.

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2026    KANAL Centre Pompidou, Brussels, Belgium. Infinite Woman: Black archive in two Acts.
2026    Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, CA. Destiny Is a Rose: The Eileen Harris Norton Collection.
2026    Griffin Art Projects, North Vancouver, Canada. Embodied Conversations: The Lillian and Billy Mauer Collection.
2025    Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO. Other Octaves.
2025    Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY. From Now: A Collection in Context.
2025    Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria. Being a girl*!?
2025    Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France. ECHO DELAY REVERB: American Art, Francophone Thought.
2025    Mariane Ibrahim, Chicago, IL. Thus masked, the world has a language.
2025    Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France. Collective Joy – Learning flamboyance!
2024    Ruby City, San Antonio, TX. Irrationally Speaking: Collage & Assemblage in Contemporary Art.
2024    The Kitchen, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY. Code Switch: Distributing Blackness, Reprogramming Internet Art.
2024    Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. This Must Be the Place: Inside the Walker’s Collection.
2024    Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX. Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists since 1940.
2023    Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami, FL. Juan Francisco Elso: Por América.
2023    Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Inheritance.
2023    Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ. Juan Francisco Elso: For América.
2023    Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA. Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today.
2022    Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL. Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s to Today.
2022    Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY. Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces.
2022    UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China. Somewhere Downtown.
2022    Paul Robeson Galleries at Express Newark, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ. Picturing Black Girlhood: A Moment of Becoming.
2020    McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA. When Living is a Protest.
2020    Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL. Polyphonic.
2019    Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL. Direct Message: Art, Language, and Power.
2019    Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY. Transfigurations.
2019    Frieze New York, New York, NY. Just Above Midtown.
2019    The Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA. Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem.
2018    Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY. Posing Modernity.
2018    National Portrait Gallery, London, UK; Grand Palais, Paris, France. Michael Jackson: On the Wall.
2017    Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; CAAM, Los Angeles, CA. We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85.
2017    Mumok, Vienna, Austria; ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany. WOMAN: Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s.
2017    The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA. 20/20.
2017    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Tea with Nefertiti. Selections from Misc. Fam. Album
2017    Tate Modern, London. Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, 1963-1983.
2016    New Museum, NY. Simone Leigh: The Waiting Room. Discussion-lecture.
2016    Pace Gallery, NY. Blackness in Abstraction. “Landscape (Western Hemisphere)”
2016    S.A.L.T.S., Birsfelden, SW. Works Off Paper. “Counter-Confessional”
2016    National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, Nassau. ‘En Mas’: Carnival, Junkanoo and Performance Art of the Caribbean.
2016    Egyptian Galleries, Brooklyn Museum, NY. “Sisters” quadriptych. First of 4-yr rotation of selections from Miscegenated Family Album in revamped galleries.
2015    Palazzo Reale, Milan, IT. “La Grande Madre.” Fondazione Nicola Trussardi.
2014    CAC, New Orleans. En Mas’: Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean.
2014    Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. 1a Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo.
2013    Grey NYU / Studio Museum, NY. Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art
2013    Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. Blues for Smoke.
2013    LACMA. Ends / Exits: Art from the Collections of LACMA and The Broad Fdtn.
2012    Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar. Tea with Nefertiti:
2012    Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. Blues for Smoke.
2012    Davis Museum. A Generous Medium: Photography at Wellesley 1972-2012.
2012    Palais de Tokyo, Paris. La Triennale Paris, 2012: Intense Proximity.
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