Lorna Simpson: Unraveling Identity Through Image and Word Lorna Simpson, born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1960, is a towering figure in contemporary American art – a photographer and multimedia artist whose work has profoundly interrogated the complexities of identity, gender, race, and history. Her career, blossoming in the late 1980s and early 1990s, quickly established her as a vital voice challenging conventional representations wit…