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Artworks
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Body Is the Ground of My Experience, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY (2022)
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Body Is the Ground of My Experience, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY (2022)
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Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s-Today, Installation view, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL. 2022–2023. Photo: Michael David Rose.
Lorraine O'Grady
The Fir-Palm, 1991/2019Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Baryta pure cotton photo rag paper50 x 40 in (127 x 101.6 cm)Edition of 10 plus 3 artist's proofsLO399Further images
The Fir-Palm (1991/2019), a black-and-white photomontage, depicts a hybrid New England fir–Caribbean palm tree sprouting from a female torso, clouds looming in the background. With this legible symbolism, O’Grady—born and...The Fir-Palm (1991/2019), a black-and-white photomontage, depicts a hybrid New England fir–Caribbean palm tree sprouting from a female torso, clouds looming in the background. With this legible symbolism, O’Grady—born and raised in Boston to Jamaican parents—questions the nature of desire, identity, and stability in a society rooted in physical, psychological, and cultural hybridity.
“My attitude about hybridity,” says O’Grady, “is that it is essential to understanding what is happening here. People’s reluctance to acknowledge it is part of the problem…. The argument for embracing the Other is more realistic than what is usually argued for, which is an idealistic and almost romantic maintenance of difference. But I don’t mean interracial sex literally. I’m really advocating for the kind of miscegenated thinking that’s needed to deal with what we’ve already created here.”Exhibitions
2023: Juan Francisco Elso: Por América, Phoenix Art Museum, AZ
2022: Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2022: Juan Francisco Elso: Por América, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
2022: Body Is the Ground of My Experience, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY
2022: Lorraine O'Grady: Both/And, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC
2021: Lorraine O'Grady: Both/And, Brooklyn Museum, NY
2018: Reclaimed, Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, TX
2017: Black Matters, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany
2016: Lorraine O’Grady: Initial Recognition, curated by Berta Sichel and Barbara Krulik, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Monastery de Santa María de las Cuevas, Sevilla, Spain
2015: Lorraine O'Grady: Where Margins Become Centers, curated by James Voorhies, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA
2014: International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, curated by Berta Sichel, Columbia
2012: New Worlds, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY
1991: Critical Interventions: Photomontages, curated by Judith Wilson, INTAR Gallery, New York, NY
Literature
“1000 Words: Lorraine O’Grady.” Artforum International, March 2021.
ARC Magazine, November 28, 2012 (illustrated).
“The Artsy Vanguard 2019.” Artsy, September 16, 2019.Bittencourt, Ela. “Lorraine O’Grady Still Won’t Play It Safe.” Hyperallergic, June 7, 2022.
Cotter, Holland. “Lorraine O’Grady: New Worlds.” The New York Times, May 17, 2012 (text).Diehl, Travis. “The Best Shows to See in New York During Frieze Week 2022.” Frieze, May 20, 2022.
Gosine, Andil. Lorraine O’Grady.” Art in America. October, 2012 (text).
Hostetler, Sue. "What to Expect at Art Basel Miami." Los Angeles Confidential, November 2012 (illustrated).
"Lorraine O'Grady." The New Yorker, May 2012 (text).
“Lorraine O’Grady: New Worlds.” This Week in New York, May 22, 2012 (text).
Nathan, Emily. "Lorraine O'Grady." artnet, April 27, 2012 (text and illustrated).
O'Grady, Lorraine. "Notes on Living a Translated Life." Hyperallergic, October 11, 2020.
Rice, Shelley. “Lorraine O’Grady: New Worlds.” Jeu de Paume, May 24, 2012 (text and illustrated).
Sperber, Irene. "Art Basel Miami Beach - Get Ready to be Blown Away December 6-9." Miami Art Zine, December 5, 2012 (text and illustrated).
Steinhauer, Jillian. "Just Watch Me." New York Magazine, March 2, 2021.
Tan, Lumi. “Critic’s Pick: Lorraine O’Grady.” Artforum.com, May 9, 2012 (text).
V Magazine, vol. 64, Spring 2010. Featuring Cyprien Gaillard, Zhang Huan, Lorraine O’Grady, and Damián Ortega. “Family Matters: Lorraine O’Grady,” with text by Lorraine O’Grady, p. 100.Publications
Acevedo-Yates, Carla, ed. Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today. Exh. cat. Chicago, IL and New York: Museum of Contemporary Art and DelMonico Books, 2022, pp. 134–135.
D'Souza, Aruna and Catherine Morris, eds. Lorraine O'Grady: Both/And. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum and Dancing Foxes Press, 2021, p. 151.
Esposito, Alana Chloe. “Lorraine O’Grady: Unnatural Attitudes.” Art Fag City, May 8, 2009 (text and illustrated).
Gosine, Andil. “Lorraine O’Grady’s New Worlds.” In Lorraine O’Grady: Initial Recognition, edited by Berta Sichel and Barbara Krulik, 94-97. Sevilla: Junta de Andalucia, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, 2016. Originally written in 2012.
Morris, Catherine and Aruna D'Souza, eds. Lorraine O'Grady: Both/And. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum and Dancing Foxes Press, 2021, p. 151.
Reid, Calvin. “A West Indian Yankee in Queen Nefertiti’s Court.” New Observations #97, September/ October 1993 (text).
Sichel, Berta and Barbara Krulik, ed. Lorraine O’Grady: Initial Recognition. Sevilla: Junta de Andalucia, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, 2016.
Silver, Nathaniel, ed. Boston's Apollo: Thomas Mckeller and John SInger Sargent. Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Yale University Press, 2020, p. 89.
Williams, Stephanie Sparling. Speaking Out of Turn: Lorraine O'Grady and the Art of Language, Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021, fig. 23, p. 139.
Voorhies, James. Where Margins Become Centers. Cambridge: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 2015.
