Suzanne Lacy
© Suzanne Lacy
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.