Suzanne Lacy: We Are Here

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Event Date: 
November 14, 2019
Event Time: 
5:10pm
Location: 
Michigan Theater
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Los Angeles-based artist Suzanne Lacy is internationally renowned as a pioneer in the field of socially engaged and public art. Her work incorporates the visions and voices of scores of people, in a practice that recognizes the essential collaborations involved in creativity. Her installations, videos, and performances have dealt with issues of sexual violence, rural and urban poverty, incarceration, gender identity, labor, and aging. Working collaboratively within traditions of fine art performance and community organizing, Lacy has realized large-scale projects in London, Brooklyn, Medellin, Los Angeles, Quito, Northwest England, Madrid, and, most recently, along the Irish border exploring local reactions to Brexit. She has exhibited at the Tate Modern in London, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Whitney Museum, the New Museum, and MoMA PS1 in New York, the Bilbao Museum in Spain, and most recently at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in a two-museum career retrospective.

Presented by the Penny W. Stamps Speaker Series. Supported by the Institute for Humanities, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA).

More information: https://stamps.umich.edu/calendar/event-detail/suzanne_lacy_we_are_here

Image: Across and In-Between, 2018. Photo by Helen Sloan.