August 24, 2024<\/p>\n\n
Bradley Ertaskiran is delighted to announce the representation of Suzy Lake.<\/p>\n\n
Suzy Lake (b. 1947) is an American-Canadian\u00a0artist based in Toronto, Canada. Lake\u2019s work explores the politics of body and identity through performance, video and photography. Her later work addresses the ageing body, questioning structures of power politically and poetically. Lake\u2019s work has been presented extensively across Canada and internationally at the Centre Pompidou-Metz (Metz), Museum of Modern Art (New York), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), Brandhorst Museum (Munich), Montreal Museum of Fine Arts,\u00a0 Vancouver Art Gallery, Hayward Gallery (London), Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art contemporain de Montr\u00e9al, and the Art Gallery of Windsor. In 2014, the Art Gallery of Ontario presented a retrospective spanning Lake\u2019s career. Her works have also been featured in several historic feminist exhibitions including\u00a0WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution<\/em>\u00a0(curated by Connie Butler, touring 2007\u20132008) and\u00a0WOMAN: The Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s, Works from the Sammlung Verbund,\u00a0Vienna<\/em>\u00a0(touring 2013\u201318) and are part of major private and public collections worldwide. A member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Lake was the recipient of the 2016 Governor General\u2019s Award in Visual and Media Arts, and the Scotiabank Photography Award. In 2024, she was presented with the Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement by the College Arts Association in Chicago, Illinois.<\/p>\n\n