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Ralph Lemon

1952 — present

"Basically it's about communicating with another human being from another culture. . . . We can never, ever know each other, but we can attempt conversation. On a certain level, that alone is remarkable. Cultural collaborations like Geography are important, but only if we go into them and let the cultural clashes and collisions really have their life, because that's where the truth is."
--Ralph Lemon

Artist info

1952 — present

United States

4 holdings

Artworks

This is a collection of artworks by the artist, including both physical and digital pieces.

Scaffold Room

Scaffold Room

2014

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Meditation

Meditation

2010

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How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere?

How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere?

2010

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Come home Charley Patton

2005

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Tell the History
A person with dark skin drops a book on a carpet, while standing next to a rubber mask hanging on a microphone stand.

Tell the History

A collaborator of Ralph Lemon's since 1997, dramaturg Katherine Profeta reflects on the years-long journeys that led to the creation of a new work premiering at the Walker.
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Ralph Lemon & Kevin Beasley: Rant redux
A dark-skinned performer wearing a striped shirt and hair curlers stands in profile behind a microphone stand.

Ralph Lemon & Kevin Beasley: Rant redux

Tell it anyway, 2024
Two people dance onstage with their backs to the audience.

Tell it anyway, 2024

Ralph Lemon and Jim Findlay: Meditation
B/W video still from Ralph Lemon's, Meditation, 2010

Ralph Lemon and Jim Findlay: Meditation

Ralph Lemon: Scaffold Room
Ralph Lemon, Scaffold Room, 2014

Ralph Lemon: Scaffold Room