Announcement of a New Persona

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The Art Newspaper, 2025

Lorraine O’Grady’s Paris exhibition traces her visionary career, affirming her Black feminist perspective and rejection of binaries. Featuring iconic series like Rivers, First Draft, Body is the Ground of My Experience, and Announcement of a New Persona, it reveals her inventive self-mythology and enduring influence on contemporary art and identity.

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Triad City Beat, 2022

Sayaka Matsuoka reviews Both/And, noting that the retrospective not only presents O’Grady’s illustrious career, but shows her penchant for self-reflection and forward movement of her work.

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