Suzanne Lacy is a groundbreaking contemporary artist, educator, writer, and professor at the University of Southern California Roski School of Art and Design. She 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 United States. 

In 2019 she had a career retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Her work has been reviewed in major periodicals and books, and she exhibits in museums across the world. Also known for her writing, Lacy edited Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art and authored Leaving Art: Writings on Performance, Politics, and Publics, 1974–2007. 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. 

(Co-sponsored by the Hopper Visiting Artists Program, Department of Art & Art History)