Suzanne Lacy

Headshot of a white woman with short, light brown hair with highlights. She is dressed in an indigo blue collared shirt, and appears against a light grey background. She is seated and has a slight smile.
Caption: Photo by Brittney Valdez. Courtesy of Suzanne Lacy Studio.
Image Description: Headshot of a white woman with short, light brown hair with highlights. She is dressed in an indigo blue collared shirt, and appears against a light grey background. She is seated and has a slight smile.

Suzanne Lacy is renowned as a pioneer in socially engaged and public performance art. Her installations, videos, and performances deal with sexual violence, rural and urban poverty, incarceration, labor and aging. Lacy’s large-scale projects span the globe, including England, Colombia, Ecuador, Spain, Ireland and the U.S. In 2019 she had a career retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and at Yerba Buena Art Center. Her work has been reviewed in major periodicals and books and she exhibits in museums across the world. Also known for her writing, Lacy edited Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art and authored  Leaving Art: Writings on Performance, Politics, and Publics, 1974-2007. She is a professor at the Roski School of Art and Design at the University of Southern California and a resident artist at 18th Street Arts Center.

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