By Benjamin Sutton (CNN) — Lorraine O’Grady, an indefatigable conceptual artist whose work critiqued definitions of identity, died in New York on Friday aged 90. Her gallery, Mariane Ibrahim, confirmed her death via email, adding that it was due to natural causes. O’Grady became an artist comparatively late in life, when she was in her early 40s, and then worked for another two decades in relative obscurity before her work started coming to wide…

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O’Grady, who devoted herself to art in her early forties, spent the ensuing decades making incisive works that spanned photography, collage, performance and more.

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Lorraine O'Grady, a conceptual artist who challenged the understanding of race, sex and class in art and society through her avant-garde works, has died. She was 90.

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(CNN) — Lorraine O’Grady, an indefatigable conceptual artist whose work critiqued definitions of identity, died in New York on Friday aged 90. Her gallery, Mariane Ibrahim, confirmed her death via email, adding that it was due to natural causes.

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Lorraine O’Grady, the conceptual and performance artist who died on Dec. 13 at age 90, was an inveterate correspondent — you never got a short note from Lorraine, you got the full intensity of her warmth, intellect and inquisitiveness in long missives often sent in the middle of the night, her favored time to work. But still I was surprised a few years ago, arms deep in her archives, to find that she had made carbon copies of what seemed like ev…

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Lorraine O’Grady, a groundbreaking conceptual artist whose fearless critique of identity and culture reshaped contemporary art, passed away on Friday in New York at the age of 90 due to natural causes. The announcement was made by her gallery, Mariane Ibrahim.Born to Jamaican immigrants in Boston in 1934, O’Grady’s life defied expectations and transcended societal limitations. Her art, rich with themes of Black identity, feminism, and societal c…

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