Suzanne Lacy

In the foreground is the artist Suzanne Lacy and in the background you can see many people sitting together in a circle of chairs.
Year of birth, place
1945, Wasco, California, United States
Biography

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. 

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.