Born in 1947 in Detroit
Lives and works in Toronto
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...
Artworks
4 gelatin silver prints, grease pencil, photo oil, mounted to board
16.54 x 25.98 in ( 42,5 x 66,5 cm )
Unique artwork
Chromogenic Prints
24.02 x 31.89 in ( 61 x 81 cm )
Edition of 3 + 1 EA
Chromogenic Prints
24.02 x 31.89 in ( 61 x 81 cm )
Exemplaire N° AP
Chromogenic Prints
24.02 x 31.89 in ( 61 x 81 cm )
Exemplaire N° AP
Gelatin chromogenic print on canvas
31.5 x 34.25 in ( 80 x 87,5 cm )
Unique artwork
84 selenium-toned fibre-based prints; printed 2017
Each 13.78 x 11.02 in
Edition of 3
5 selenium-toned gelatin silver prints on fibre-based paper, printed 1998
10.24 x 11.02 in
Edition of 10
4 gelatin silver print, fiber-based paper, photo oil; 2 chromogenic colour prints
43.31 x 141.73 in ( 110 x 360 cm )
Unique artwork
Archival Inkjet print, printed in 2022
19.69 x 15.75 in ( 50,8 x 40,64 cm )
Edition of 10
Gelatin silver print, graphite drawing
37.8 x 27.95 in ( 96,1 x 71 cm )
Unique artwork
6 Archival pigment prints, printed 2012
38.19 x 29.92 in ( 97,4 x 76,2 cm )
Unique artwork
Gelatin silver fibre-based print, printed 1996
19.69 x 15.75 in ( 50,5 x 40,5 cm )
Edition of 10 + 3 EA
colour gelatin print on Fuji Crystal archival paper mounted on Dibond
32.28 x 33.86 in ( 82,5 x 86 cm )
Edition of 5
Archival inkjet prints
24.02 x 20.08 in ( 61 x 51 cm )
Edition of 10
Archival inkjet prints
24.02 x 20.08 in ( 61 x 51 cm )
Edition of 10
Archival inkjet prints
24.02 x 20.08 in ( 61 x 51 cm )
Edition of 10
Archival inkjet prints
24.02 x 20.08 in ( 61 x 51 cm )
Edition of 10
archival inkjet print
10.75 x 7.25 in ( 27.31 x 18.42 cm )
Edition of 10
archival inkjet print
10.75 x 7.25 in ( 27.31 x 18.42 cm )
Edition of 10
Selenium-toned gelatin silver print on fibre-based paper
15.75 x 19.69 in ( 40 x 50,5 cm )
Unique artwork
