Lorraine O'Grady

Select Solo Exhibitions
1998 Thomas Erben Gallery, NYC. Studies for Flowers of Evil and Good
1995 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT. Lorraine O'Grady/Matrix 127
1993 Thomas Erben Gallery, NYC. Photo Images: 1980-91
1991 INTAR Gallery, NYC. Critical Interventions: Photomontages

Select Group Exhibitions
1997 Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI. Identity Crisis: Self Portraiture at the End of the Century
"Le Magasin" (Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble), Vraiment: Féminisme et Art
1996 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA New Histories
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark NowHere Armand Hammer Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago's Dinner Party in Feminist History
1995 The Bunting Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA A Range of Views: New Bunting Fellows in the Visual Arts
1994 Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA The Body As Measure
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art Outside the Frame: Performance & The Object
1993 The Drawing Center, NYC Exquisite Corpses
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art,Winston-Salem, NC Personal Narratives: Women Photographers of Color USIA selected exhibit, traveled to the Caribbean and Latin America
David Zwirner Gallery, Coming to Power: 25 Years of Sexually X-plicit Art by Women
1992 Bronx Museum/PaineWebber Art Gallery Revealing the Self: Portraits by Twelve Contemporary Artists
1988 Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD Art As A Verb: The Evolving Continuum

Select Performances
1983 Afro-American Day Parade, Harlem, USA Art Is
Franklin Furnace, NYC Fly By Night
1982 Central Park, NYC Rivers, First Draft
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH Nefertiti/Devonia Evangeline
1981 New Museum for Contemporary Art, NYC Mlle Bourgeoise Noire Goes to the New Museum
1980 Just Above Midtown Gallery, NYC Nefertiti/Devonia Evangeline
Just Above Midtown Gallery, NYC Mlle Bourgeoise Noire Goes to JAM

Select Writings about Art
1998 "Olympia's Maid: Reclaiming Black Female Subjectivity," reprinted with "Postscript" in Grant Kester, ed, Art, Activism, and Oppositionality: Essays from Afterimage, Duke University
1997 "Nefertiti/Devonia Evangeline," in College Art Association, Art Journal,Winter 1997, Vol 56, No 4: Performance Art, pp 64-65
1996 "Lorraine O'Grady: Artist and Art Critic" Interview by Laura Cottingham, in Artist and Influence 1996, vol XV, pp 205-218, Hatch-Billops Collection, Inc
1993 "A Day At the Races: Lorraine O'Grady on Basquiat and the Black Art World," Artforum Magazine, vol XXXI, no 8, April, pp10-12
1992 "Dada Meets Mama: Lorraine O'Grady on WAC," Artforum Magazine, vol XXXI, no 2, October 1992, pp 11-12
1982 "Black Dreams," in Heresies #15: Racism Is the Issue, nd, pp 42-43

Select Discussions of Work
1998 Roselee Goldberg, Performance: Live Art Since the 60s, Thames & Hudson/Abrams
1997 Richard J Powell, Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century, Thames and Hudson, World of Art series
1996 Anne Higonnet, "Hypocrite Lecteur, Mon Semblable, Mon Frere! Hybrid Viewer, My Difference, Lorraine O'Grady!" in Lia Gangitano and Steven Nelson, eds, New Histories, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
1995 Patricia Rosoff, "Shadow Boxing with the Status Quo: Artist Lorraine O'Grady refuses to treat the art world with kid gloves," The Hartford Advocate, June 29, 1995, pp 21, 23
Andrea Miller-Keller, Lorraine O'Grady / MATRIX 127, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford CT, 1995, pp 2-7
1994 Norma Broude and Mary Garrard, eds, The Power of Feminist Art, Harry N Abrams, Inc, New York
1993 Calvin Reid, "A West Indian Yankee in Queen Nefertiti's Court," in Adrian Piper, ed, New Observations #97: COLOR, September/October 1993, pp 5-9
1991 Judith Wilson, Lorraine O'Grady: Photomontages, INTAR Gallery, New York, 1991 Exhibition catalogue
1988 Lucy R Lippard, "Sniper's Nest: 'Art Is'", Z Magazine, July/August1988, p 102, box Lowery Stokes Sims, "Aspects of Performance in the Work of Black American Women Artists," in Arlene Raven, et al, Feminist Art Criticism: An Anthology, UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor
1984 Lucy R Lippard, Get the Message! A Decade of Art for Social Change, EP Dutton, New York

Select Fellowships and Awards
1997-99 Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School , NYC,
Senior Fellow
1995-96 Bunting Institute, Harvard University, Bunting Fellowship in
Visual Art
1993-94 Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Space Program, residency
1983 National Endowment for the Arts, emerging artist fellowship
1983 CAPS, New York State Council on the Arts, fellowship

Select Collections
Peter Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
The Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, MA
The Avon Collection
Thomas Erben
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