CAAC, 2016-2017
Lorraine O’Grady: Initial Recognition is the artist’s first major solo exhibition, presenting nearly 100 works across four decades and bringing long-overdue visibility to her groundbreaking practice. Born in Boston in 1934 to a family of mixed Caribbean and Irish heritage, O’Grady draws on the region’s abolitionist history to explore identity, diaspora, and racial invisibility. Shown in Seville, a historic center of the Atlantic slave trade, the exhibition foregrounds her incisive challenge to exclusion and marginalization in the art world.