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In 1962, following the untimely death of her older sister, Devonia Evangeline, Lorraine O’Grady traveled to Egypt, where she developed an interest in Egyptology and

O’Grady has long been fascinated with hybridity—the mixing of things together and the crossing of boundaries. A persistent theme in her work is the way

In 1982, while working on a special issue of the feminist journal Heresies, a Black collaborator who was not an artist asserted that “avant-garde art

In her early public performances, O’Grady appeared as Mlle Bourgeoise Noire (Miss Black Middleclass), most famously at a predominantly Black gallery called Just Above Midtown