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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
Finding Aids:
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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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Long-Form Research CV
Download full PDF — A complete resumé. Contains full bibliographic citations. plus links to all materials available online. Bibliographic information for all items in the WRITING and PRESS Menus can be found here.
LORRAINE O’GRADY
Born September 21, 1934, Boston, MA.
Based in New York, NY.
Gallery:
Mariane Ibrahim Gallery
Chicago | Paris | Mexico City
https://marianeibrahim.com/artists/87-lorraine-ogrady/biography/
info@marianeibrahim.com
Archive:
Wellesley College Library, Wellesley, MA
Lorraine O’Grady Papers, 1952-2012
Finding Aids:
HTML: http://academics.wellesley.edu/lts/archives/MSS.3.html
PDF: http://www.wellesley.edu/sites/default/files/assets/departments/libraryandtechnology/files/archives/mss.3.pdf
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
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.
Select Group Exhibitions
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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