Lorna Simpson – Previous & Ongoing

HAUSER & WIRTH London, Savile Row 23, W1S 2ET, London

October 13, 2026 – December 23, 2026

Lorna Simpson returns to the UK for the first time in eight years with an exhibition of new works revealing the symbiotic relationship between her paintings, collages and wider oeuvre. Coming to prominence in the 1990s for pioneering conceptual photography, Simpson's masterful paintings have become central to her practice since 2014. Works on view—from multi-panel compositions and large-scale paintings to sculpture—are anchored by her sustained engagement with found defunct photographic news archive material, particularly from Ebony Magazine. Treating these fragments as carriers of memory, she sources, reconfigures and reproduces archival material to reveal how histories persist and accrue new meaning over time. Simpson's first survey dedicated to painting was displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 2025, followed by a solo show at Punta della Dogana (Pinault Collection) in Venice, currently on view until 22 November 2026.