Suzanne Lacy is an artist and writer whose work includes large-scale public performances and installations, photographs and text on issues of social justice and equity. She is Chair of the new Master’s in Fine Arts: Public Practices at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.
Lacy is a proponent of audience engagement and artists' roles in shaping the public agenda. She lectures widely, has published over 60 articles, exhibited internationally, and been reviewed in the L.A. Times, the New York Times, Art in America, and numerous books. Her fellowships include the Guggenheim Foundation, The Surdna Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her book, Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art (1995), was responsible for coining the term and articulating the practice.
Most recently Lacy completed a 5 year community development art project in a small town in rural Appalachia, a performance with teens in Taipei, and is working on three new projects for Los Angeles in Spring 2007. Recent awards include the Henry Moore Fellowship in Great Britain. She is working on a collection of essays for Duke University Press and a book describing her ten-year projects with youth and civic sectors in Oakland, California with the On the Edge research programme at Gray’s College of Art in Aberdeen, Scotland.
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