Lorna Simpson

Kellie Jones is a New York-based art historian and curator who specializes in contemporary art of the African Diaspora and Latin America. She has held curatorial positions at the Studio Museum, The Broida Museum and the Jamaica Arts Center, all in New York. She is currently   Hans Hofmann Professor of Modern Art in the Departments of Art History & Archaeology, and African American & African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University.   Thelma Golden is Head Curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, where she curated Lorna Simpson's 2002 exhibition. As Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, she curated the controversial exhibition 'Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary Art' in 1994. Chrissie Iles is a British critic and Curator of Film and Video at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Her exhibitions there include the renowned 'Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964-1977' and the 2006 Whitney Biennial. From 1987-97 she was Head of Exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, where her exhibitions included surveys of Sol LeWitt, Louise Bourgeois and Gary Hill.

Interview - Curator of Simpson's Autumn 2002 exhibition at the Studio Museum, Harlem, New York, Thelma Golden talks about the artist's use of language and the shift from her signature photographic work to her recent, more filmic and sculptural art. - Survey - Critic and scholar Kellie Jones places the work in the context of the history of African-American culture as well as the recent history of self-portraiture in art through photography and performance. - Focus - Curator of Simpson's Whitney Museum film presentation in 2002, Chrissie Iles analyses the artist's filmworks including the artist's most recent films to be presented at Documenta 11 (2002). - Artist's Choice - Contemporary African-American playwright Suzan Lori Parks' work Top Dog/UnderDog has been selected by the artist to draw attention to their parallel, fragmentary usage of speech. - Artist's Writings - Lorna Simpson's writings range from recollections of her earliest work experiences outside art, which later provided subject matter for her artwork, and transcripts from casting auditions for her films. - Chronology and Bibliography