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Suzanne Lacy
Suzanne Lacy is a visual artist whose prolific career includes performances, video and photographic installation, critical writing, and public practices in communities. She is best known as one of the Los Angeles performance artists who became active in the Seventies and shaped an emergent art of social engagement. Her work ranges from intimate, graphic body explorations to large-scale public performances involving literally hundreds of performers and thousands of audience members. Her book, Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art (1995), now in its third printing, was responsible for coining the term and articulating the practice. Lacy was founding chair of the MFA in Public Practice at the Otis College of Art and Design. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy from Gray’s School of Art at Robert Gordon University in Scotland. She currently teaches at the University of Southern California Roski School of Art and Design.