Her strongly feminist work has been widely exhibited, particularly in New York City and Europe. O'Grady's early "Mlle Bourgeoise Noire" performance was given new recognition when it was made an entry-point to the landmark exhibit "WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution", the first mainstream museum show of this groundbreaking art movement. Her practice, seemingly located at and defining the cusp between modernism and a "not-quite-post-modernist" present, has been the subject of steadily increasing interest since it received a two-article cover feature in the May 2009 issue of "Artforum" magazine. In December 2009, it was given a one-person exhibit in the U.S.'s most important contemporary art fair, Art Basel Miami Beach. Subsequently, O'Grady was one of 55 artists selected for inclusion in the 2010 Whitney Biennial. Her work has since featured in many seminal exhibitions, including: "This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s"; "Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art", and "En Mas': Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean".