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1947
Born in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Currently lives and works in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
1978
Master of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Montréal, QC, Canada.
1968
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA.
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA.
Her Space, Art Gallery on Ontario, Toronto, On. Carte blanche, Michèle Didier Gallery, Paris, France. October 16, 2021-January 8, 2022.
Female Sensibility, Feminist Avant-Garde from VERBUND COLLECTION, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, Austria.
Quilted Portrait, Commission for the University of Toronto in honour of University College Principal Donald Ainslie, Estimated completion date October 2021
60 Over Sixty, Toronto Outdoor Art Fair’s 60th Anniversary, Online Exhibit, Ontario, Canada https://torontooutdoor.art/60-over-sixty#Lake
In Keeping With Myself (Fidèle à moi-même), Portrait Gallery of Canada, Online Exhibit. Canada
2022
Suzy Lake: On Stage, Mfc-Michele Dider, Paris, France.
2020
Suzy Lake: Performance of Protest, Arsenal Contemporary, New York, NY. USA. (2019-2020)
2019
Game Theory, Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto, ON.
2018
Suzy Lake: Performing an Archive, curated by Srimoyee Mitra, Stamps Gallery, University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, Michigan USA.
2017
Suzy Lake: Scotiabank Photography Award, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, ON. (catalogue)
Performing an Archive, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, ON.
Beauty and the Aging Body, curated by Yan Zhou, Lianzhou Foto Festival, Lianzhou, China
2016
Performing an Archive, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, ON; Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, ON. (2017)
2014
Introducing Suzy Lake, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON. (retrospective, publication)
2013
Suzy Lake, Mois de la Photo featured exhibition, Drone: The Automated Image, Darling Foundation, Montreal, QC. (catalogue)
2012
So Whose Gaze Is It Now?, Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto, ON.; Grand Prairie Museum, Grand Prairie, AB. (2013)
2011
Political Poetics, University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, ON. (touring exhibition): Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, NS.; McIntosh Gallery, Western University, London, ON.; Peterborough Art Gallery, Peterborough, ON; Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON. (catalogue)
Extended Breathing, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON
Reduced Performing, Galerie Donald Browne, Montreal, QC.
2009
Rhythm of a True Space, Art Gallery of Ontario, Scotiabank CONTACT Photo Festival public installation, Toronto, ON, Canada; Solway Jones Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA (2009)
2006
Suzy Lake: Revealment/Concealment, Hallwalls Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA (catalogue)
2005
Visages de Suzy Lake: L’ete Photographic de Lectoure, Centre de Photographie de Lectoure, Lectoure, France
2004
Whatcha Really, Really Want… (Canadian Idol), Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON.
Chrysalis: a 10-Year Survey, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
2002
Attitudes et Comportements, Musée Régional de Rimouski, QC.
Beauty at a Proper Distance / In Song, Gallery 44, Toronto, ON.
1997
Re-Reading Recovery, Mois de la Photo, Montreal, QC.
Suzy Lake: Too Many Stones, Mount St. Vincent University Gallery, Halifax, NS.
1993
A Point of Reference, (CMCP retrospective tour), Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, ON and Surrey Art Gallery, North Vancouver, BC.; London Regional Art Gallery, London, ON. (1996); Glenbow Art Gallery, Calgary, AB. (1997)
1991
Authority is an Attribute... part 2, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, ON.; TPW Gallery, Toronto, ON and W.K.P. Kennedy Gallery, North Bay, ON. (1992); Art Gallery of Peterborough, ON. (1995)
1989
Referencing the Ideal, Mois de la Photo, Galerie Daniel; Montreal, QC.; Sable Castelli Gallery, Toronto, ON.
1986
Authority is an Attribute… part I, Sable Castelli Gallery, Toronto, ON.
1984
Confrontation: the Shadow or the Wall, Niagara Artist Inc., St. Catherines, ON.; Embassy Cultural House, London, ON. (1985); Galerie John Schweitzer, Montreal, QC. (1986)
Pre-Resolution: Using the Ordinances at Hand, and Confrontation: The Shadow or the Wall, Sable Castelli Gallery, Toronto, ON.
1983
Bridge installation, site work festival at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Burlington, ON.
1982
Wan/Lake (travelling exhibition): Sub Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB.; Alberta College of Art,Calgary, AB., and Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB.
1981
Locations and Sites, Sable Castelli Gallery, Toronto, ON.; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON.
1979
Are You Talking to Me…? Sable Castelli Gallery, Toronto, ON. and Optica Gallery, Montreal, QC.; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK. (1980); The Station Gallery, Whitby, ON. and Whitewater Gallery, North Bay, ON. (1981)
1978
ImPositions, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON.; Mohawk Gallery, Hamilton, ON.
For Suzy Lake, Chris Knudsen and Robert Walker, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC.
1977
Choreographed Puppets, Optica Gallery, Montreal, QC.
1976
Choreographed Puppet Studies, Loyola Photographer`s Workshop, Montreal, QC.
1974
Transformations, Galerie Giles Gheerbant, Montreal, QC.; C.E.A.C. Kensington Art Association, Toronto, ON. (1976); Sable Castelli Gallery, Toronto, ON. (1978); Kingston Artist Association, Kingston, ON. (1981)
2023
New Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY, USA
Feministe Photographies and Performances from the VERBUND COLLECTION,
Rencontres Arles, Arles France.
Movement: Expressive Bodies in Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON.
2021
Carte blanche, Michèle Didier Gallery, Paris, France.
Female Sensibility, Feminist Avant-Garde from VERBUND COLLECTION, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, Austria.
60 Over Sixty, Toronto Outdoor Art Fair’s 60th Anniversary, Online Exhibit, Ontario, Canada https://torontooutdoor.art/60-over-sixty#Lake
A Guest + A Host = A Ghost, Embassy Cultural House, Online Exhibit
https://www.embassyculturalhouse.ca/a-guest--a-host--a-ghost.html
In Keeping With Myself (Fidèle à moi-même), Portrait Gallery of Canada, Online Exhibit
International Women’s Day, Embassy Cultural House, Online Exhibit
https://www.embassyculturalhouse.ca/international-womens-day.html
2020
All of Them Witches, Jeffrey Deitch, co-curated by Laurie Simmons and Dan Nadel, Los Angeles, CA. USA.
Pictures Generation
, Revisited, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, USA.
Extra Tough: Women of the North, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK, USA.
RESOLUTION: A Century of Photographic Art, Museum London, London, ON.
Her Story: Trailblazers of Guelph and Wellington County, Guelph Museums, Guelph, ON.
The Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s, Works from the SAMMLUNG VERBUND, Vienna; Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
2019
FEMINISMS, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
My World is Empty ... Without You, Confederation Art Gallery, Charlottetown, PEI
2018
Welcome to Detroit, McIntosh East Gallery, London, ON.
Drag, Hayward Gallery, London, England.
Uprisings, Gallery de l'UQAM, Montreal, QC.
Qui Parle? / Who Speaks?, Ellen Bina Gallery, Concoria University, Montreal, QC.
Speaking for Herself, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON.
International Exhibition of Photography, AMUA Art Museum, Nanjing, China.
Up Close and In Motion, Rodman Hall, Hansen Gallery, St. Catherine, ON.
WOMAN: The Feminist Avant-Garde from the 1970s; Works from the Sammlung Verbund, Vienna; Various International locations including Norway, Czechia, Spain, New York (USA) and Brazil
Women’s Lives in Canada: A History, 1875–2000, Museum London, London, ON.
2017
WOMAN: The Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s, Works from the SAMMLUNG VERBUND, Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, Austria
Open Edition, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON.
Past Imperfect: A Canadian History Project, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, ON.
2016
The Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts 2016, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON.
She Photographs, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, QC.
Toronto: Tributes and Tributaries, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON.
2015
Wild West: The History of the Avant Garde of Wroclaw, Zacheera National Gallery of Art, Muzeum Wspolczesne, Wroclaw, Poland
Double Absence: Techniques of Release, Galeria Fotografii pf, Centrum Kultury Zamek, Poznan, Poland
Clock for Seeing: Time and Motion, the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON. To Assert Herself, Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto, ON.
2014
Nuclear War, Vilma Gold Gallery, London, England
Remain in Light: Photography from the MCA Collections (touring exhibition): Museum of Contemporary Art Limited, Sydney; Ipswich Regional Art Gallery, Queensland; Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo, New South Wales; Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria,; Artspace Mackay, Queensland; Hawksbury Regional Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
1+1=1 When Collections Collide: the MAC at the MMFA, Montreal Museum of Fine Art,
Montreal, QC.
2013
The Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s, Works from the SAMMLUNG VERBUND, Vienna (touring exhibition): Austria and Circula de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain; the BOZAR, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium; Jelby Konstmuseum, Halmstad, Sweden (2014); Hamburg Kunsthalle, Germany (2015); London Photographers Gallery, London, England (2016); Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, Austria and ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (2017); Brno House of Arts, Brno, Czech Republic and Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, Norway (2018)
Continental Drift: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlssruhe, Germany
Light My Fire: Some Propositions about Portraits and Photography: Part II, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON.
Skin Trade, PPOW Gallery, New York City, NY, USA.
2012
Wish You Were Here: The Buffalo Avant-garde in the 1970s, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA (catalogue)
Commercial Psycho, curated by Will Benedict, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Women, Flowers and Feminism, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, ON.; McMaster Art Gallery, Hamilton, ON. (2013)
Body/Objects: Works by 10 Photographers; Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Commercial Psycho, Andrew Kreps Gallery; New York, NY
2011
The Revenge of the Wise Woman, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, Poland.
Gallery Selections, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Every Line & Every Other Line, Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts; Winnipeg, MB.; aka gallery, Saskatoon, SK.
Genie Zonder Talent/Genius Without Talent, de Appel Art Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Archi-feministes!, Optica Gallery, Montreal, QC.
2010
Dona: Works From the Sammlung Verbund, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
At Her Age, A.I.R. Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
UN-home-Ly, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON.
Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980, University of Toronto Galleries, Toronto, ON. (travelling exhibition): Halifax University and Public Galleries, Halifax, NS.; Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.; Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, QC. (2011); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC. (2012)
Acts of Presence, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, QC.
28th Festival International du Film Sur l’Art, Montreal, QC.
2009
She Works Hard, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB.
Preoccupations: Photographic Explorations of the Grey Nuns Mother House, commissioned work, Concordia University, Montreal, QC.
Beautiful Fictions, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON.
2008
Held Together with Water, Art from the Sammlung Verbund, Istanbul Modern Museum, Istanbul, Turkey. Hands; Solway Jones Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA. Click Chicks, Dallas Contemporary Art Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.
2007
Identity Theft: Eleanor Antin, Lynn Hershman and Suzy Lake, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California, USA. (catalogue)
WACK! Art and Feminist Revolution 1965 – 1980, (travelling exhibition): Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art/Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, California, USA; National Museum of Women in Art, Washington, DC, USA; P.S.1, Queens, New York, USA; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC. (2008) (catalogue)
I.D., Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON.
2006
Faking Death: Canadian Photography and the Canadian Imagination, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York City, New York, USA.
2004
Identities: Canadian Portraits, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, ON.
Lecture Notes, Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, NS.
Performance and Photography: Point and Shoot, Dazibao Gallery, Montreal, QC.
2001
Constructed Identities: Ed Burtynsky and Suzy Lake, Burlington ArtCentre, Burlington, ON.
Video Primer: The Medium, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON.
The Power of Reflection, Liane and Danny Taran Gallery, Montreal, QC.
Storyboard, London Regional Art Museum, London, ON.
2000
Thick-Skinned, Gallery 44, Toronto, ON.
Intersections Montreal/Toronto, Place Ville Marie, Montreal, QC and Toronto, ON.
Fifteen Minutes, Mississauga Art Centre, Mississauga, ON.
1999
On Movement, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON.
Délics, Art et Société: Le Québec des Années 60 et 70, Musée d’art Contemporain, Montreal, QC.
1998
True North: The Landscape Tradition in Contemporary Canadian Art, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
1997
The Body in the Lens, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, QC.
1996
Suzy Lake and Martha Wilson: Deflecting the Blind Spot, AGYU, Downsview, ON.
Love Gasoline, Mercer Union, Toronto, ON.
1995
Michelle Gaye and Suzy Lake, Open Studio, Toronto, ON.
1994
Looking Back 1981 – 1985, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB.
1993
Corpus (touring exhibition): Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK. (1993); Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, AB.; Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON.(1994)
1992
Beau, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, ON.
1991
Musee d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, QC.
1990
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC.
1988
The Photograph as a Vulgar Document, Optica Gallery, Montreal, QC.
1986
Vintage Video, Arc Gallery, Toronto, ON.
1985
Les vingt ans du musée a travers sa collection, Musee d’art contemporain, Montreal, QC.
1983
Photographic Sequences, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, ON.
Mercer Union, Toronto, ON.
1982
Sorel Cohen and Suzy Lake (travelling exhibition): Musée du Madawaska, Edmonton, AB.; Artcite, Windsor, ON.; Leaf Rapids National Exhibition Center, Leaf Rapids, MN. (1984); Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, ON.; Petro Canada Exhibition Gallery, Calgary, AB. (1985); Sir Sanford Fleming College Gallery, Peterborough, ON. (1986)
1981
Viewpoint 29 x 9, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON.
1979
Winnipeg Perspectives, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB.
20 x 20; Italia-Canada II, Galeria Blu, Milan, Italy and Factory 77, Toronto, ON.
1978
Sable Castelli Gallery, Toronto, ON.
International Triennial of Drawing Invitational, Lodz Museum, Wroclaw, Poland
03 23 03 Art and Performance Festival, Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Montreal, QC.
Fleeting Gestures, International Center of Photography, New York City, New York, USA
New Tendencies, Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, QC.
Women`s Art: Four Women Photographers, PSP Jakti Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland
1977
Magma, Museo Castelvecchio, Verona, Italy
London Regional Art Gallery, London, ON
Galerie Gilles Gheerbrant, Montreal, QC.
Transparent Things, Canada Council Art bank (travelling exhibition): Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC.; London Regional Art Gallery, London, ON.; Alberta College of Art, Calgary, AB.; Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC.; Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, NS.
1976
Indentite/Identifications, Centre des Arts Plastiques Contemporains, Bordeaux, France
Forum 76, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, QC.
Photo and Idea, Galeria Communale d’Arte Moderna, Parma, Italy
Galerie Gilles Gheerbrant, Montreal, QC.
Cent onze dessins du Quebec, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, QC.
1975
Young Contemporaries, London Regional Art Gallery, London, ON.
The Female Eye, National Film Board Gallery, Ottawa, ON.
Espace Carden, Paris, France
C.A.Y.C., Buenos Aires, Argentina
Galerie Gilles Gheerbrant, Montreal, QC.
Quebec 75, Musee d’art contemporain, Montreal, QC.
Palais de Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Vehicule Art: In Transit (travelling exhibition), Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, ON.; Centre Culturelle Canadienne, Paris, France; Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC.; Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Kingston, ON.
1974
Peripheries, Musee d’art contemporain, Montreal, QC.
Quebec 74, Palazzo del Permanente, Milan, Italy, and Musee d’art contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, QC.
Camer Art, Optica Gallery, Montreal, QC.
Galerie Gilles Gheerbrant, Montreal, QC.
Video Impact, Galerie Impact, Geneva, Switzerland
9 out of 10, A Survey of Contemporary Canadian Artists, Hamilton Art Gallery, Hamilton, ON.
Musee d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Centre culturel canadien, Paris, France
1973
Allan Bealy and Suzy Lake, Vehicule Art Inc., Montreal, QC.
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, QC.
Drawing Show, Vehicule Art Inc., Montreal, QC.
1972
Vehicule Art Inaugural Exhbition, Galerie Vehicule Art Inc., Montreal, QC.
2013
Extended Breathing in the Rivera Frescoes, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, USA
1998
Spice Girls at the Rivoli, YYZ benefit performance at the Rivoli, Toronto, ON.
1986
Missed Liberty, A Space Gallery at the Rivoli, Toronto, ON. and Managua, Nicaragua
Dane to Life, collaboration with choreographer Gail Benn, Pavlychenko Dance Studios, Toronto, ON. and Calgary, AB.
1978
Choreography With Myself, 03 23 03 Performance Festival, Montreal Museumof Fine Art, Montreal, QC.
1977
Clouds of Magellan, collaboration with composer Ted Dawson, Powerhouse Gallery, Montreal, QC.; Pollack Hall, McGill University, Montreal, QC.; and Array Music tour
1975
A Natural Way to Draw, Vehicule Art Inc., Montreal, QC, and Kensington Art Association, at C.E.A.C., Toronto, ON.
1972
Behavioral Prints, the artist’s studio, Montreal, QC.
1971 - 73
Annual Feast Event, the artist’s studio, Montreal, QC.
1970
Bisecting Space, the artist’s studio, Montreal, QC.
2021
Nominee for the Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award in Art Photography
2016
Scotiabank Photography Award
Governor General`s Award in Visual and Media Arts
2013
Mois de la Photo, Dazibao Publication Prize
2004
Appointed to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
1997
Greater Toronto Arts Foundation, Visual Arts Award
1991
Named "Honorary Friend of the Teme Augama Anishnabai" (Dear Island, Temagami)
Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, ON
Glenbow Art Gallery, Calgary, AB
London Regional Art Gallery, London, ON
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, ON
Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK
Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Montréal, QC
Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, QC
Musée du Québec, Quebec City, QC
Museum Lodz, Wroclaw, Poland
National Film Board Stills Division, Ottawa, ON
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
Nickel Arts Museum, Calgary, AB
Royal Bank of Canada, ON
Sammlung Verbund, Vienna, Austria
Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
University of Western Ontario, London, ON
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MN
2023
Gabriele Schor, Feministes, Collection Verbund, Delpire & Co, Vienna, Austria. pg. 399.
2021 Silver, Erin. Suzy Lake: Life and Work, Art Canada Institute, Massey College, University of Toronto, 2021.
2020
Luce Lebart, and Marie Robert. (2020). Une Histoire Mondiale des Femmes Photographes. Editions Textuel, France. ISBN: 978-2-84597-843-0.
Ihor Holubizsky, Suzy Lake: Game Theory, Border Crossings Magazine, Issue 153, March 2020.
Gabrielle Moser, Suzy Lake, Performance of Protest, Esse Magazine, January 2020. https://esse.ca/compte-rendu/suzy-lake-performance-of-protest
2019
Jori Finkel - It Speaks to Me, Art That Inspires Artists, Prestel Publishing, USA.
Wanda Nanabush - Toronto Tributes and Tributaries, Toronto; Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada. pg. 56-57
2018
Balzer, David, Robin Anthony, Madeleine Dalkie, Jimmy Limit. RBC Art Collection: Contemporary Works. RoyalBank of Canada, 2017. Pg. 92-93
Gabriele Schor, Feminist Avantgarde of the 1970s(Vienna, Austria: ZKM Zentrum fur Kunst und Medien, 2017)
Heather Davis, ed. Desire/Change: Contemporary Feminist Art in Canada, MAWA and McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal, QC and Kingston, ON.
2017
Suzy Lake, Helena Reckitt and Georgiana Uhlyarik, Suzy Lake: Scotiabank Photography Award, Scotiabank/Steidl, Gottingen, Germany.
Dorota Monkiewicz, The Wild West: A History of Wroctaw's Avant-Garde (Wroclaw, Poland: Zacheta - National Gallery of Art, 2015) 183-185, 333.
2015
Suzy Lake, Suzy Lake: Performing an Archive, Dazibao Book Prize, Montreal; Black Dog Press Publishers, UK.
Gabriele Schor, Feministische Avantgarde, catalogue raisonne, Sammlung Verbund, Vienna, Austria, pp. 246-9
2015
Suzy Lake, Suzy Lake: Performing an Archive, Dazibao Book Prize, Montreal; Black Dog Press Publishers, UK.
Gabriele Schor, Feministische Avantgarde, catalogue raisonné, Sammlung Verbund, Vienna, Austria, pp. 246-9.
2014
Georgiana Uhlyarik, ed., Introducing Suzy Lake, Art Gallery of Ontario, Black Dog Publishing, London, England.
2013
Flowers and Photography: Barbara Astman, Lori Newdick, Sasha YungJu Lee, Suzy Lake, Dyan Marie, Sara Angelucci, Art Gallery of Peterborough and McMaster University, ON, pp. 28-32
Johanna Fateman, Goings on About the Town, The New Yorker, 2013. https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/signals-how-video-transformed-the-world
2012
Eva Respini, Johanna Burton and John Waters, Cindy Sherman, The Museum of Modern Art, ARTBOOK pub, p. 16
Gabriele Schor, Cindy Sherman: The Early works 1975-1977, catalogue raisonné, Sammlung Verbund, Vienna, Austria, pp. 35-36
Douglas Dreishpoon, Louis Grachos and Heather Pesanti, Decade: Contemporary Collecting 2002-2012, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, pp. 307, 337
Grant Arnold and Karen Henry, eds., Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC., pp. 46-47, 138, 142
2011
Suzy Lake: Political Poetics; essays by Matthew Brower, Carla Garnet and Dot Tuer, University of Toronto Art Centre, University of Toronto Press, ON
2010
Anne Whitelaw, Brian Foss and Sandra Paikowsky, eds., The Visual Arts in Canada; the Twentieth Century, Oxford University Press Canada, pp.300-301, reproduction
2009
The Pictures Generation, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, reproduction
2008
Held Together With Water, Sammlung Verbund, Vienna, Austria
Photography 101, essay by Ihor Holubizky, Confederation Art Gallery , Charlottetown, PEI.
2007
Cornelia Butler and Lisa Gabrielle Mark, eds., WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution 1965-1980, co-publisher by MIT Press and Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art/ Geffen Contemporary, reproductions. bibliography and Abigail Solomon-Godeau essay
2006
Suzy Lake: Concealment/Revealment, essay by John Massier, Hallwalls Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Jayne Wark, Radical Gestures: Feminist Performance Art in the US and Canada, 1970’s to c.2000, McGill-Queens University Press
Faking Death: Canadian Photography and the Canadian Imagination, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York City, NY, USA.
2004
Johanna Householder and Tanya Mars, Caught in the Act: An Anthology of Performance Art By Canadian Women, YYZ Books, Toronto, ON.
Gail Stavitsky, The Unseen Cindy Sherman: Early Transformations 1975-1996, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ. USA.
Jocelyn Fortin, Attitudes et Comportements: Suzy Lake, Musee Regional de Rimouski (exhibition 2002 / catalogue launched 2004), Rimouski, QC.
Ingrid Jenkner, Lecture Notes, Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, NS.
France Chouiniereand Michele Theriault eds., Point & Shoot: Performance and Photography, Dazibao Books, Montreal, QC.
2003
Penny Cousineau-Levine, Faking Death: Canadian Art Photography since 1955, McGill / Queen’s University Press, Montreal, QC.
1999
Joan Murray, ”Alternate Practice,” in Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century, Dundurn Press, Toronto, ON.
“Authority is an Attribute…Revisited,” Re-Figuring Wilderness: Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 33, no.2, Trent University, Peterborough, ON.
1994
William Ewing, “The Mirrored Body,“ in The Body, Thames and Hudson, reproduction
La Collection: Tableau Inaugural, Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, QC.
1993
"Authority is an Attribute: An Interview with Suzy Lake," Textual Studies in Canada 2, pp. 68-84, and cover photo
Point of Reference, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, ON.
1992
Martha Langford, Beau: A Reflection on the Nature of Beauty on Photography, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, ON.
La Collection - Tableau Inaugural, Musée d'art Contemporain, Montreal, QC.
1991
A. Richard & C. Robertson eds., Performance in Canada 1970-1990, Coach House Press and Editions Intervention (co-publishers)
Gail Fischer-Taylor, “At the Epicentre” and Denis Lessard, “The Manipulated Photograph,” in Thirteen Essays on Photography, Gail Fischer-Taylor ed., Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, ON.
Ingrid Jenkner, Authority Is an Attribute...part 2 essays by Gerta Moray, Mary LaRonde and David Kilgour, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, ON.
1990
Michel Huard, Propos d’Art Contemporain: Figures d’Accumulation, Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, QC.
1989
Paulette Gagnon, Une Histoire de Collections: 1984-1989, Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, QC.
The Labatt Collection, London Regional Art Gallery, London, ON.
1988
Karyn Allen Keenan, “Suzy Lake” in Contemporary Photographers, Colin Naylor, ed., Chicago and London: St. James Press, second printing, pp. 574-576,
1987
AA Bronson, Rene Blouin, Peggy Gayle and Glenn Lewis eds., From Sea to Shining Sea: Artist Initiated Activity in Canada, 1939-1987, The Power Plant, Toronto, ON.
France Gascon, Les Vingt Ans du Musee a Travers sa Collection (for 1985 exhibit), Musee d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, QC.
Pierre Landry, The Forgotten Gesture, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, QC.
1986
Vintage Video, essay by Renee Baert, ARC Gallery, Toronto, ON.
1984
Encyclopedia of Photography, International Center of Photography, Crow Publishers, NY.
Contemporary Canadian Photography From the National Film Board, National Film Board of Canada, Hurtig Publishers Ltd, Edmonton, AB.
1983
Contemporary Canadian Art by David Burnett and Marilyn Schiff, Hurtig Publishers Ltd, Edmonton AB.
Diana Nemiroff, “Rethinking the Art Object” in Visions: Contemporary Art in Canada, Robert Springhurst, Geoffrey James, Russell Keziere and Doris Shadbolt, eds., Vancouver: Douglas and MacIntyre, Vancouver, BC, pp. 193-229
Jann Baily, Photographic Sequences, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, ON.
1982
Karyn Allen, “Suzy Lake” in Contemporary Photographers, George Walsh, Colin Naylor, & Michael Held, eds., MacMillan Press, St. Martn’s Press, New York, NY, pp. 429-430
Suzy Lake: Locations and Sites, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON.
Wan/Lake, essays by Diana Nemiroff and Chantal Pontbriand, Sub Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB.
1981
Viewpoint: Twenty-nine by Nine, introduction by Glen E.Cumming, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON.
1980
Bruce Ferguson, Suzy Lake: Are You Talking to Me?, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK.
Tendances Actuelles au Quebec, Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, QC.
1979
20 x 20 Italia / Canada II, Galeria Blu, Milan, Italy
The Winnipeg Perspectives: Photo-Extended Dimensions, essay by KarynAllen, forward by Roger Selby, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB.
1978
William Ewing, Fleeting Gestures: Dance Photographs, International Centre of Photography, New York City, NY
Chantal Pontbriand, “Choreographies of the Dotted Line” in For Suzy Lake, Chris Knudsen and Robert Walker, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC.
International Triennial of Drawing Invitational, Lodz Museum, Wrocaw, Poland
1977
Magma, Rassegna Internationale di Donne Artiste, Romana Loda, Museo Castelvecchio, Arti Grafiche, Rome, Italy
Geoffrey James, Transparent Things, the Artist’s Use of the Photograph, Canada Council Art, Ottawa, ON.
Chantal Pontbriand, France Morin, and Norman Theriault, 03 23 03 Art and Performance Festival, Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Mediart et Parachute, Montreal, QC.
1976
Achille Bonito Oliva and Cirunna Ferrai, eds., Europe / America: the Different Avant-Gardes, Deco Press, Milan
Lucy Lippard, From the Center: Feminist Essays on Women’s Art, Clarke, Irwin and Co
Indentite/Identifications, Centre des Arts Plastiques Contemporains, Bordeaux, France
Photographic Sequences, Hallwalls Gallery, State College at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, NY. USA.
Forum 76, essays by Leo Rosshandler and Germain Lefebvre, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, QC.
Giancarlo Politi, Photo and Idea, Galeria Communale d’Arte Moderna, Parma, Italy
Cent onze dessins du Quebec, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, QC.
1975
Suzy Lake: A Genuine Simulation of…, essay by Chantal Pontbriand, Vehicule Co-Op Press, Montreal. QC.
James Warren Felter, Vehicule Art: In Transit, Simon Fraser University Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC.
Young Contemporaries ’75, London Regional Art Gallery, London, ON.
1974
9 Out of 10: A Survey of Contemporary Canadian Art, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON.
Video Impact, Galerie Impact, Geneva, Switzerland
Quebec ‘74, Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, QC.
Chantal Pontbriand, Camerart, Optica Gallery, Montreal, QC.
Peripheries, essay by Chantal Pontbriand, Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, QC.
1973
Clive Robertson, ed., W.O.R.K.S. A Conceptographic Reading of Our World Thermometer, Flemming Neilsen Community Antenna TV, Calgary, AB.
2020
Joanna Fateman, "Goings On About Town", The New Yorker, January 13, 2020 pp. 5. (Online, January 8, 2020),
https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/a-field-of-meaning
Emily Watlington, "Suzy Lake on Navigating Ageism and Feminism like a Game of Strategy", Art in America, January 13, 2020.
https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/interviews/suzy-lake-feminism-arsenal-contemporary-performance-protest-1202675149/
Art Forum, March, vol.58, no. 7.
2015
Sylwia Serafinowicz, "Suzy Lake: Art Gallery of Ontario," Artforum, May, vol. 53, no. 9, pp. 384-85.
Matthew Ryan Smith, "Notes on Curating Autobiographical Art," Essa, Spring-Summer, http://www.erudit.org/culture/esse045/esse01790/73800ac.html?vue=resume&mode=restriction.
Bill Clarke, "Suzy Lake" in "Vkhutemas" by Martin-Gropius-Bau, Art News, Aprile, p. 94.
Dan Adler, "Suzy Lake, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto," Frieze, March, no. 169, pp. 174-5.
Catherine Kustanczy, "The Many Faces of Suzy Lake," Hyperallergic, February, http://hyperallergic.com/185709/the-many-faces-of-suzy-lake/.
2014
Robert Enright, "The Many Faces of Suzy Lake," Border Crossings, December, vol. 33, no. 4, issue 132, pp. 24-36.
Sue Carter Flinn, "AGO curator Georgiana Uhlyarik on Tavi Gevinson and introducing artist Suzy Lake to a new generation," Quill and Quire, November, http://www.quillandquire.com.
R.M. Vaughan, "New Doc Sheds Light on Feminist Art," Canadian Art, October 29, https://candianart.ca/features/annette-mangaard-suzy-lake-documentary/.
2013
Jill Glessing, "Suzy Lake & Cindy Sherman Shine in Madrid," Canadian Art, September, canadianart.ca/reviews/suzy-lake-cindy-sherman/.
Bill Clarke, “A Maker of Change: The Many Identities of Suzy Lake” Canadian Art, Winter, pp. 110-13
"Artificial Beauty," Exit Magazine, Madrid, Spain, vol. 48, reproductions, n.p.
2012
Sholem Krishtalka, "Suzy Lake," Ceil Variable, Winter, vol. 90, p. 82.
Leah Sandals, “Suzy Lake: The School of Life” Canadian Art, September, canadianart.ca/must-sees/suzy-lake-the-school-of-life
2011
Adi Baker, "Suzy Lake: Political Poetics," Canadian Art, canadianart.ca/reviews/suzy_lake/.
Daniel Baird, "Self-Inventions: The Photography of Suzy Lake," Border Crossings, September, vol. 30, no. 119, pp. 98-105.
2008
Hunter Drohojowska-Philip, "Identity Theft" ARTnews, January, p. 133.
2007
Sarah Valdez, “In the Land of Make-Believe”, Art in America, November, pp. 119-21.
"Best of 2007," Artforum Magazine, Jessica Morgan (Tate Modern) chose "WACK!" As #10, p. 328; Matthew Higgs (White Columns) chose "WACK!" as #4, p. 330; Ali Subotnik (Hammer Museum) chose "Identity Theft" as #8, p. 336.
2006
Helena Rickett, "Unusual Suspects: Global Feminisms and WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution," n paradoza, UK, vol. 18, pp. 34-42.
2005
Lee Rodney, “Canadian Idol Suzy Lake”, XX Women in Contemporary Art and Culture, Fall, no. 4, pp. 36-40.
“Agenda De L’Ete; Hors Cadre”, Le Monde 2, July 23, p. 8.
“Panorama des festivals photo de l’ete”, Images magazine, July / August
2004
Patrick Holland, “Suzy Lake’s Cult of the Idol”, C Magazine, Summer, no. 82, pp. 81-82.
2003
Corinna Ghasnavi, “What Suzy Lake Can Do That Britney Spears Can’t”, Prefix Photo, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 46-55.
1999
Deborah Davis, “Suzy Lake: Women’s Work”, Canadian Art, vol. 16, no. 2, p 87.
Robert Enright, “The Memory of Skin”, Border Crossings, issue 72, p. 4.
Lee Rodney, “Suzy Lake: Paul Petro Contemporary Art”, C Magazine, vol. 64, p. 19.
1997
Donna Lypchuk, “Soul’s Kitchen”, Toronto Life, November. pp. 108-118.
1994
Robert Enright, “Researching the Self, an Interview with Suzy Lake”, Border Crossings, January, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 10 -22 & cover photo.
Meeka Walsh, “Framed by Women: Reconstructing Art History” Border Crossings, January, vol 13, no 1, p. 3.
1993
Len Findlay, “Rumours of Our Breath”, Border Crossings, Summer, p. 50.
1992
Ingrid Jenker, “Radical Constructions”, Border Crossings, Fall, pp. 79-80.
“Authority is an Attribute: An Interview with Suzy Lake,” Textual Studies in Canada, University of Cariboo, Kamloops, BC.
1991
Bill Jones, “Free Trade”, Arts Magazine, February, vol. 65, no. 6, pp. 37-43.
1989
Arlette Blancher, “Suzy Lake”, ETC Montreal, Winter, vol. 10. p. 47.
1986
Jean, Tourangeau, Jean. “Suzy Lake”, Vie des Arts, June, vol. 31, no. 123, p. 78.
1984
Chantal Boulanger, "Art as an Elipse," Vanguard magazine, February, vol. 13, no, pp. 30-33.
1983
Stephen Lamia, “Artworks in the Gardens," Artsmagazine, Fall, vol 15, no 65, pp. 24-27.
1981
Christopher Hume, “Women Artists: Bright Young Newcomers on Canada’s Art Scene” Chatelaine, October, vol. 54. pp. 84-87.
Kay Kritzwiser, “Viewpoint: 29 x 9” Artmagazine, Feb/Mar, vol. 12, no. 52, pp. 10-16.
“Suzy Lake” Impressions magazine, 27, Spring, pp. 20-23.
David Hlynsky, “Mutilated Photography,” Image Nations, p. 23.
1980
B. Levy, “1965-1980: Yet to be Written” Art and Artists, United Kingdom, pp 36-41.
Roseanne Sainte-Jacques, “Suzy Lake: Une ‘phraseologie’ photographic”, Parachute, Spring, vol. 18. p 42.
“The Winnipeg Perspective” catalogue review, Afterimage, vol. 7, no. 7, February 18, published by the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY.
1979
David MacWilliam, “Suzy Lake: Sable Castelli Gallery” Vanguard Magazine, December/January, vol. 8 no. 10, p. 29.
1978
B. Baworowska, “Sztuka kobiet [Women’s Art],” Szutka, Warsaw, Poland. vol. 5 no. 4, p. 69-70, 86, 89.
Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker and Joan Murray. “Montreal-Montreal” Vanguard, March, p 7-12.
William Ewing, “Canada’s Artists with Cameras” Artnews, April. vol. 77, no. 4, pp. 82-86.
Naomi Kaplan, “Visual Arts, Suzy Lake at the Vancouver Art Gallery” YVR Vancouver in Review 3, May/June.
Diana Nemiroff, “Suzy Lake: ImPositions” Parachute, Spring, vol 10, p. 9-11.
Robert Racine,“Festival des performances du M.B.A.M.” Parachute, Winter, vol 13, pp. 43-47.
1977
Diana Nemiroff, “Suzy Lake and Sorel Cohen,” Artscanada, October/November, no. 216/217, pp. 50-60
Ann Thomas, "7 Canadian Photographers," Artscanada, May/June, no. 214/215, pp. 61-63
1975
Laurent Lamy, “Suzy Lake par Suzy Lake: images et metaphors” Vie des Arts, Spring, pp. 32-33.
“Nouvelles de la photographie – Montreal: Conceptualisme et Esthetisme” Oeil, July/August, no. 240-241, p. 79.
1974
Giancarlo Politi, “Flash Art U.S.A. and Canada,” Flash Art, October/November, no. 48-49, p. 51.
Chantal Pontbriand, "Peripheries au Musee d'art contemporain," Vie des Arts, Summer, vol. 19, no. 75, pp.60-61.
Chantal Pontbriand, “A Simulation of Suzy Lake as Gilles Gheerbrant” Artscanada, December, no. 192-195, p. 122.
1973
Gilles Toupin, “The Option of the Group Vehicule” Vie des Arts, Spring, vol. 17, no. 70, p. 95.
2016
"Suzy" dir. Cliff Caines. Co-production of the Canada Council for the Arts & Headframe Films RT 4:00.
2014
"Suzy Lake: Playing with Time" dir. Annette Mangaard. RT 61:48.
2005-2006
"On Stage" (remounted from original programmed slide show 1972-1975 show), continuous DVD loop 2009.
1986
"Dance to Life", documentation of performance at Pavleychenko Studios, Toronto, 3/4 colour, RT 15 min.
1976
"Choreographies on the Dotted Line", 1/2, b&w, RT 13 min.
1975
"A Natural Way to Draw", 3/4, colour, RT 25 min.
1973-1974
"Box Concert", 1/2, b&w, 5-minute continuous loop.
1970
"Bisecting Space", b&w, 16 mm film.
2021
"Suzy Lake: Extended Breathing", F Zero-Project, Los Angeles, California; 6 salt prints.
2004
"AA Bronson and Suzy Lake", Open Studio, Toronto, ON.
1980
Jeux d'Image: 4x16x20, Rene Payant, colour photography, Pierre Boogaerts, Suzy Lake, Serge Tousignant, and Bill Vazan, Montreal, QC.
1976
"1972 - 1976 Directions Montreal (Corridart)", Galerie Gilles Gheerbrant, Vehicule Press, Montreal, QC.
1975
"Loyola Photographers Workshop Silkscreen Album, 10 artists", Loyola University, Montreal, QC.
2008
University of Guelph, Professor Emeritus
1988-2008
University of Guelph, full time
1983-1988
University of Guelph, sessional instructor
1982-1988
Ontario College of Art and Design
1980-82
York University, sessional instructor
1978-1980
University of Guelph, sessional instructor
1976-1977
Concordia University, sessional instructor
1975-1976
Loyola Photographer's Workshop, animator, instructor
1969-1976
Montreal Museum School of Art, sessional instructor