Hauser & Wirth London has opened Lorna Simpson: Previous & Ongoing, the American artist's first exhibition in the United Kingdom in eight years, running from October 13 to December 23, 2026 at the gallery's Savile Row space. The show brings together new paintings, collages, and sculptures that trace the relationship between past and present across Simpson's wider practice. The works are anchored in Simpson's sustained engagement with defunct news photography. She sources, reconfigures, and reproduces images from vintage Jet and Ebony magazines and the archives of the Library of Congress, Reuters, and the Associated Press, beginning each work with silkscreened archival photographs and layering them with acrylics. The process turns fragments of the past into layered compositions that blur the boundary between documentation and invention. Among the highlights is Nightfall, a nearly six-meter Prussian-blue triptych in which two singers cross a plain of lights, derived from a 2019 monochrome collage. Tiger with star spots enlarges a 2023 collage image of a figure in a tiger mascot mask to nearly two meters, while Constellation (2026) overlays a found group portrait with a star chart in ultramarine. Altered & Unaltered is the exhibition's only collage, combining found images of cats with female figures. The London show follows a major survey of Simpson's painting practice at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2025 and a significant European presentation at Punta della Dogana in Venice. Coming to prominence in the 1990s for pioneering conceptual photography, Simpson turned to painting in 2014, and the medium has since become central to her output.