Suzanne Lacy's Biography:
Suzanne Lacy is an internationally known conceptual/performance artist
whose work includes large scale performances on social themes and urban
issues. Her best known work to date is The Crystal Quilt (Minneapolis, 1987),
a performance with 430 older women, broadcast live on Public Television.
Most recently, she created Full Circle (1993), for Culture in Action, a
Chicago sculpture exhibit curated by Mary Jane Jacob; Auto: On the Edqe of
Time (1993-95) an installation on domestic violence for Art Park and the
Public Art Fund; and The Roof is on Fire (1994), a multi-media public
conversation and performance with 200 Oakland teenagers, sponsored by
California College of Arts and Crafts, the Oakland Unified School District,
and KRON Channel 4. She is a proponent through art and writing for activism,
audience engagement, and artists' roles in shaping the public agenda. Lacy
has published articles on public theory in Performing Art Journal, Ms.
Magazine, Art Journal, High Performance, and the Public Art Review, among
others. She has exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art in London, the
Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, and the New Museum in New York, and
her work has been reviewed in Artforum, The Drama Review, Art in America,
Hiqh Performance, the L.A. Times, Villaqe Voice, and numerous books. She has
held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Arts International, the
Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Fund, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Lacy teaches new genre art at the California College of Arts and Crafts and
is Dean of the School of Fine Art. She is currently planning a curriculum on
visual/public art with Judy Baca at California State University at Monterey
Bay. Her book on new genre public art, Mapping the Terrain (1995), is
published by Bay Press.