For four decades, the unparalleled Lorraine O’Grady—an American daughter of the Caribbean diaspora and a feminist trailblazer—has been centering Black lives in her performances and photo-based works. In recent years, homages to her art have graced the 2019 Met Gala and a Biden-Harris campaign video. On March 5, the Brooklyn Museum opens the retrospective “Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And,” which includes the début of her 2020 piece “Announcement of a New Persona (Performances to Come!),” excerpted above.
The Unparalleled Art of Lorraine O’Grady
On March 5, the Brooklyn Museum opens a retrospective of the artist, who has been centering Black lives in her performances and photo-based works for four decades.
Art work © Lorraine O’Grady / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York
