Creative Capital Award in Visual Art in 2015. In October 2017 she received the Alumnae Achievement Award, the highest honor given to Wellesley College alumnae. Collections O'Grady's work is the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; the Brooklyn Museum, New York; the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, Massachusetts; the Fogg Museum at Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; the Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, and Pérez Art Museum Miami. Pop culture references In 2016 O’Grady was the subject of musician Anohni's video "Marrow" from the Hopelessness album. O'Grady's Art is… , performed in 1983, was referenced in the 2020 presidential election for Joe Biden. In an article by Alex Greenberger, he argues that the artist was “a key inspiration for a video put out by Biden and Kamala Harris… [in which] in the video, [there were] shots of people of various races holding empty picture frames.” Her name appears in the lyrics of the Le Tigre song "Hot Topic". Further reading Sparling Williams, Stephanie. 2021. Speaking Out of Turn: Lorraine O'Grady and the Art of Language. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. D'Souza, Aruna (editor) and Catherine Morris (editor). 2021. Lorraine O'Grady: Both/And. Brooklyn, NY: Dancing Foxes Press and Brooklyn Museum. D'Souza, Aruna (editor). 2020. Lorraine O'Grady: Writing in Space 1973-2019. Durham and London: Duke University Press. References External links official website Lorraine O'Grady on MoMA Learning Lorraine O'Grady in conversation with Connie Butler, curator of WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, PS1 radio interview Lorraine O'Grady's text Olympia's Maid: Reclaiming Black Female Subjectivity 1934 births 20th-century African-American artists 20th-century African-American women 20th-century African-American people 20th-century American women artists 21st-century African-American people 21st-century African-American women African-American contemporary artists American contemporary artists American performance artists Artists from Boston Boston Latin Academy alumni Living people