Lorna Simpson (born 1960 in Brooklyn, New York) works in a range of media and techniques including photography, screen printing, installations and video art. In her work, she investigates the different ways in which societies relate to issues such as race, representation, culture, gender, history and identity.
Using photography, texts and also film, Simpson poses fundamental questions about how we function, how we see, and how we communicate with each other and with ourselves. The fact that she herself is an African-American artist seems to make her work personal. Simpson says: “Well, I do not appear in any of my work. I think maybe there are elements to it and moments to it that I use from my own personal experience, but that, in and of itself, is not so important as what the work is trying to say about either the way we interpret experience or the way we interpret things about identity” *
