Lorraine O'Grady was born on September 21,1934 and is an American artist, writer, translator, and critic.
16 Facts About Lorraine O'Grady
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Lorraine O'Grady was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Jamaican parents, who helped establish St Cyprian's, the first West Indian Episcopal church in Boston.
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In 1955, Lorraine O'Grady graduated from Wellesley College, where she majored in economics and minored in Spanish literature.
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Lorraine O'Grady was honored with a Wellesley College Alumnae Achievement Award in 2017.
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Lorraine O'Grady pursued a master's degree in fiction from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop before becoming an artist in 1980.
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Lorraine O'Grady gives credit to Mlle Bourgeoise Noire for curating exhibitions, such as The Black and White Show in 1983 at Kenkeleba House, a black-run gallery situated in Manhattan's East Village.
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Lorraine O'Grady worked on a performance in which she focused on Knights in the year 2020, as stated "O'Grady herself, outfitted in a custom-made, plated -steel suit of armor, poses against a black backdrop with her sword, jousting poles and ornate helmet, which in some images sprouts different varieties of palm trees".
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Lorraine O'Grady was profiled at age 88 in an article in The New Yorker Magazine in September 2022.
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Lorraine O'Grady first exhibited at the age of 45, after successful careers among others as a government intelligence analyst, literary and commercial translator, and rock critic.
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Subsequently, Lorraine O'Grady was one of 55 artists selected for inclusion in the 2010 Whitney Biennial.
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Lorraine O'Grady engages frequently in dialogue with contemporary artists, such as Juliana Huxtable.
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Lorraine O'Grady's collected writings were published by Duke University Press in 2020 and were edited with Aruna D'Souza.
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Lorraine O'Grady uses the Victorian painting Olympia by Edouard Manet as an example of the Eurocentric depiction of Black womanhood.
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This, Lorraine O'Grady argues, comes at a time when subjectivity itself has been problematized by ideology.
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In 2016 Lorraine O'Grady was the subject of musician Anohni's video "Marrow" from the Hopelessness album.
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Lorraine O'Grady's name appears in the lyrics of the Le Tigre song "Hot Topic".