Suzy Lake — À propos — Slash Paris

Suzy Lake began her art practice in 1968. Following the social and political unrest of the 1960’s she emigrated from Detroit to Montreal (1968), and then to Toronto in 1978. Active to the needs of her communities, she was a co-founder of Vehicule Art Inc. (Montreal, 1972) and the Toronto Photographers Workshop (Toronto, 1978). Lake was among the first female artists in Canada to adopt performance, video, and photography to explore the politics of gender, the body, and identity. In 1993, she was the subject of a major mid-career retrospective, Point of Reference, organized by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in 1993. Suzy has participated in significant conceptual or feminist exhibitions such as: WACK ! Art and the Feminist Revolution (LA MOCA, 2007-2008), Identity Theft : Eleanor Antin, Lynn Hershman, Suzy Lake, 1972-1978 (Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2007), Held Together With Water (Sammlung Verbund, Vienna, 2008) and Traffic : Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-80 (2010).

Suzy continues to address the relationship of the individual to societal forces in order to reveal constructions and restraints that have been built into our culture.

Her works are part of the collection of MoMA (NY), du Metropolitan Museum of Art, (NY), Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, (NY), National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Sammlung Verbund, Vienna…