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Suzy Lake

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Professor

Office: 409 Zavitz Hall

E-mail: slake@rogers.com

Website: http://www.suzylake.ca

Education

• 1980 M.F.A. Fine Art Concordia University
• 1966-68 Fine Art Wayne State University
• 1965-1966 Fine Art Western Michigan University

Solo Exhibitions

• 2007 Beauty at the End of the Season, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ont.
• 2006 Concealed, Revealed; Hallwalls Gallery; Buffalo New, York
• On Stage 1972-75, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ont.
• 2005 Visages de Suzy Lake, "L'Ete Photographic de Lectoure", Le Centre de Photographie de Lectoure; Lectoure, France
• 2004 Whatcha Really Really Want.... (Canadian Idol), Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ont.
• Chrysalis; A 10 -Year Survey, Hart House, University of Toronto; Toronto, Ontario
• 2003 Who Pulls the Strings; Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ont.
• 2002 Attitudes et Comportements, Musee Regionale du Rimouski, Rimouski, Quebec
• Beauty at a Proper Distance, Gallery 44 (vitrines), Toronto, Ontario
• Beauty, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto
• 2000 Fascia, Galerie Trois Points; Montreal, Quebec
• 1999 Macdonald Stewart Art Centre; Guelph. Ontario
• Fascia; Paul Petro Contemporary Art; Toronto
• 1997 Re-Reading Recovery, (Mois de la Photo), Paul Petro Contemporary Art; Montreal, Quebec
• Too Many Stones, Mount St. Vincent Univ. Gallery; Halifax, Nova Scotia
• Chrysalis, (Contact '97) Paul Petro Contemporary Art; Toronto, Ontario
• 1996 Too Many Stones, Woodstock Regional Art Gallery; Woodstock, Ontario
• 1995 Authority is an Attribute... part 2, Art Gallery of Peterborough; Peterborough, Ontario
• 1994 Desire and the Landscape, Emma Ciotti Gallery; Iroquois Falls, Ontario
• 1993 A Point of Reference (retrospective tour), Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography
• Ottawa, Ontario: Surrey Art Gallery; North Vancouver, British Columbia; Surrey Art
• Gallery; North Vancouver, British Columbia; Glenbow Art Gallery; Calgary, Alberta
• London Regional Art Gallery; London, Ontario
• 1991 Authority is an Attribute... part 2. *Macdonald Stewart Art Centre; Guelph, Ontario; W.K.P.
• Kennedy Gallery; North Bay, Ontario; Toronto Photographers Workshop Gallery; Toronto, Ontario
• 1989 Referencing the Ideal" (Mois de la Photo), Galerie Daniel; Montreal, Quebec
• Sable Castelli Gallery; Toronto, Ontario
• 1987 Glenhyrst Gallery; Brantford, Ontario
• 1986 Galerie John Schweitzer; Montreal, Quebec
• Sable Castelli Gallery; Toronto, Ontario
• 1985 Embassy Cultural House; London, Ontario
• 1984 Niagra Artists Inc.; Ste. Catherines, Ontario
• Sable Castelli Gallery; Toronto, Ontario
• 1983 Sable Castelli Gallery; Toronto, Ontario
• 1982 Locations and Sites, Art Gallery of Hamilton; Hamilton, Ontario
• 1981 Sable Castelli Gallery; Toronto, Ontario
• Are You Talking to Me?, Whitby Arts Inc.; Whitby, Ontario
• Transformations, Kingston Artists Association; Kingston, Ontario
• Are You Talking to Me?, Whitewater Gallery; North Bay, Ontario
• 1980 Are You Talking to Me?c, Mendel Art Gallery; Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
• ImPositions, Mohawk College; Hamilton, Ontario
• 1979 Sable Castelli Gallery; Toronto, Ontario
• Optica Gallery; Montreal, Quebec
• 1978 ImPositions, Art Gallery of Ontario; Toronto, Ontario
• Sable Castelli Gallery; Toronto, Ontario
• ImPositions, Vancouver Art Gallery; Vancouver, British Columbia
• Image Co-Op; Vermont, U.S.A.
• 1977 Choreographed Puppets, Optica Gallery; Montreal, Quebec
• 1976 The Loyola Photographer's Workshop; Montreal, Quebec
• 1975 Body Art, C.E.A.C., Kensington Art Association; Toronto, Ontario
• 1974 Galerie Gilles Gheerbrant; Montreal, Quebec

Two/Three Person Exhibitions

• 2007 Identity Theft: Eleanor Antin, Lynn Hershman and Suzy Lake, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California
• 2004 Peonies and the Lido, Wayne State University Art Gallery; Detroit, Michigan, USA
• Stunning: Catherine Heard, Suzy Lake & Jane Martin, Rodman Hall, St. Catherines, Ont.
• 2002 Fade: Suzy Lake and Tannis Neilsen curated by Bill Huffman, Sudbury Art Gallery, VMAC Gallery, Toronto
• 2001 Constructed Identities: Ed Burtynsky and Suzy Lake, Burlington Art Centre, Burlington, Ontario
• 2000 Thick Skinned, Gallery 44, Toronto
• 1996 Shelia Butler & Suzy Lake, Paul Petro Contemporary Art; Toronto, Ontario
• Deflecting the Blind Spot: Suzy Lake & Martha Wilson, Art Gallery of York University; Downsview, Ont.
• 1995 Suzy Lake & Michelle Gaye, Open Studio Toronto, Ontario
• 1985 Cambridge Public Library Art Gallery; Cambridge, Ontario
• 1984 Sorel Cohen & Suzy Lake, Leaf Rapids National Exhibition Centre; Leaf Rapids, Manitoba: Sir Sanford Fleming College Gallery Peterborough, Ontario; Thunder Bay Art Gallery; Thunder Bay, Ontario; Petro-Canada Exhibition Gallery; Calgary, Alberta
• 1983 Erindale College: Mississauga, Ontario
• Photo Union Gallery; Hamilton, Ontario
• 1982 Sorel Cohen & Suzy Lake, Musee du Madawaska; Edmonton, Alberta
• Artcite; Windsor, Ontario
• Wan Lake, Southern Alberta Art Gallery; Lethbridge, Alberta; SUB Art Gallery, Univ. of Alberta; Edmonton, Alberta: Alberta College of Art; Calgary, Alberta
• 1981 Universite de Moncton Galerie d'Art; Moncton, New Brunswick
• Open Space Gallery; Victoria, British Columbia
• 1979 Artspace; Peterborough, Ontario
• 1978 Sable Castelli Gallery; Toronto, Ontario
• 1973 Allan Bealy and Suzy Lake, Vehicule Art; Montreal, Quebec

Group Exhibitions

• 2007 WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Gallert, Museum of Contemporary Art; Los
  Angeles, California, USA
• 2006 Faking Death: Canadian Photography, curated by Penny Cousineau-Levine for Jack Shainman
  Gallery, New York City, USA
• 2004 Lecture Notes, Mount Saint Vincent University Gallery; Halifax, N.S.
• Identities: Canadian Portraits, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ont.
• Point and Shoot, Dazibao Gallery: Montreal, Quebec
• Dislocation, Lee Ka-Sing Gallery, Toronto and Fringe Club, Hong Kong
• 2002 Guelph 2002, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre; Guelph, ON
• Cabaret Escape, MacKenzie Art Gallery; Regina, SASK
• 2001 Video Primer: The Medium, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
• Breakfast of Champeens; Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ontario
• The Power of Reflection, Liane and Danny Taran Gallery; Montreal, QUE.
• Artcite - When Montreal Turns into a Museum, Musee d'art Contemporain, Montreal, QUE.
• Storyboard, London Art Gallery and Museum; London, Ontario
• Head frame, Campo Santa Marina; Venice, Italy.
• 2000 Connections, Place Ville Marie; Montreal, Quebec and Toronto, Ontario
• Shelly Tadman Gallery; Winnipeg, Manitoba
• Passion et Tourment: La Collection Luc LaRochelle, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec
• Fifteen Minutes, Mississauga Art Centre, Mississauga, Ontario
• 1999 On Movement, Art Gallery of Hamilton; Hamilton, Ontario
• Delics, Art et Societe; Le Quebec des Annees 60 et 70, Musee d'Art Contemporain; Montreal
• Art Gallery of Ontario (permanent collection); Toronto, Ontario
• 1998 True North: The Landscape Tradition in Contemporary Canadian Art; Kaohsiung Museum of
  Fine Art; Kaohsiung, Taiwan
• Wonderland, Paul Petro Contemporary Art: Montreal
• Art Gallery of Ontario (permanent collection); Toronto, Ontario
• 1997 The Body in the Lens; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec
• 1996 Love Gasoline, Mercer Union Gallery; Toronto, Ontario
• 1995 76 John Street; Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ontario
• Mercer Union; Toronto, Ontario
• Repetition, Galerie Christiane Chassay; Montreal, Quebec
• 1994 Distinguishing Features: Video in Guelph 1976-1991, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre; Guelph, Ontario; Video Verite; Saskatoon, Sask.
• The Intimate Stranger, (tour).
• Looking Back 1981 - 1985 Southern Alberta Art Gallery; Lethbridge, Alberta
• 1993 Chairs, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre: Guelph, Ontario
• Practice and Pedagogy, London Regional & Mackintosh Galleries; London, Ontario
• The Intimate Stranger, Stratford Art Gallery; Stratford, Ontario; and Maclaren Art Centre; Barrie, Ontario
• Corpus (tour), Walter Phillips Gallery; Banff, Alberta; Mendel Art Gallery: Saskatoon, Sask. and Oakville Galleries; Oakville, Ontario
• Community Linkages Video Project, Ed Video Gallery; Guelph, Ontario
• A Crowd of One, Hamilton Art Gallery; Hamilton, Ontario
• 1992 Two-Row Wampum, Niagra Artist Inc.; Ste. Catherines, Ontario
• Faculty Favourites Exhibition, University of Calgary; Calgary, Alberta; University of Guelph,
  Guelph, Ontario
• Beau (inaugural exhibition), Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography; Ottawa
• La Collection- Tableau Inaugural, Musee d'Art Contemporain; Montreal, Quebec
• Legs Rene Payant (tour 92-94), Galerie d'art du College Edouard Monpetit; Montreal, Quebec
• Centre National d'Exposition; Jonquiere, Quebec; Musee Regional de la Cote-Nord
• Sept-Iles, Quebec; Galerie d'art de Universite de Moncton; Moncton, N. B.; Galerie d'art du Centre culturel de Drummondville; Quebec; W.K.P. Kennedy Gallery; North Bay, Ontario; Musee du Bas-St. Laurent; Riviere-du-Loop. Quebec
• 1991 Musee d'Art Contemporain; Montreal, Quebec
• 1990 Figures d'Accumulation, Maison de la Culture la Petite Patrie; Montreal, Quebec and Dorval Cultural Centre; Dorval, Quebec
• Workscene Gallery; Toronto, Ontario
• Vancouver Art Gallery; Vancouver, British Columbia
• 1989 Mois de la Photo, Montreal
• Labatt Collection, London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario
• Figures d'Accumulation, Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal; Stewart Hall, Pointe Claire;
• Maison de la Culture Notre-Dame-de-Grace, Montreal; Centre Communication et Culturel
• Henri-Lemieux, LaSalle, Que.; and Maison de la Culture Marie-Ugay, Montreal
• 1988 The Photograph as a Vulgar Document, Optica Gallery, Montreal
• 1987 Glenhyrst Gallery, Brantford
• Algoma Art Gallery, Sault Ste. Marie
• Galerie 101, Ottawa, Ontario
• 1986 Vintage Video, Arc Gallery, Toronto
• 1985 Ontario College of Art and Design Faculty Show, Gallery 76, Toronto
• M.F.A. Alumni Show, Concordia University Gallery, Montreal
• University of Guelph Faculty Exhibition, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph
• 1983 Outdoor Installations, Royal Botanical Gardens, Burlington, Ontario
• Mercer Union, Toronto
• Photographic Sequences, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario
• 1981 Viewpoint 29 x 9 (tour), Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario
• 1980 5th Annual Dalhousie Drawing Exhibition, Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
• Eye of the Beholder, Toronto Photographers Co-op, Harbourfront, Toronto
• Musee d'art Contemporain, Montreal
• 1979 National Film Board Gallery, Ottawa
• Winnipeg Perspectives, Winnipeg Art Gallery
• 20 x 20 Italia / Canada, Galeria Blu, Milan, Italy; Factory 77, Toronto
• 1978 Invitational Drawing Show, Lodz Museum,Wroclaw, Poland
• 03 23 03 Art and Performance Festival, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
• Fleeting Gestures, International Center of Photography, New York
• New Tendancies, Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal
• Four Women Photographers, Wroclaw, Poland
• 1977 Magma, Museo Castelvecchio, Verona, Italy
• National Film Board (Stills Division), Ottawa
• London Regional Art Gallery, London
• Bologna Art Fair, Bologna, Italy
• Galerie Gilles Gheerbrant, Montreal
• Transparent Things (tour), Canada Council Art Bank: Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; London
• Regional Art Gallery, London; Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary; Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, B.C.and Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
• 1976 Photo Sequence, Hallwalls Gallery, State College at Buffalo, Buffalo, N.Y.
• Identite/Identifications, Centre d'Art Plastiques Contemporains, Bordeaux, France
• Forum '76, Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Montreal
• Photo and Idea, Galeria Communale d'Arte Moderna, Parma, Italy
• Vehicule Art in Transit, Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Kingston, Ontario
• Galerie Gilles Gheerbrant, Montreal
• 1975 Young Contemporaries, London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontari
• Vehicule Art in Transit, Kitchner-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener; Centre Culturelle Canadienne, Paris, France; and Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burna
• Photography 1975, National Film Board, Ottawa
• Espace Carden, Paris, France
• C.A.Y.C., Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Galerie Gilles Gheerbrant, Montreal
• Quebec '75, Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal
• Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
• 1974 Peripheries, Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal
• Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
• Quebec '74, Palazzo del Permanente; Milan, Italy
• Camerart, Optica Gallery, Montreal
• Centre Culturelle Canadienne, Paris, France
• Galerie Gilles Gheerbrant, Montreal
• Video Impact, Galerie Impact, Geneva, Switzerland
• 9 Out of 10, Hamilton Art Gallery, Hamilton
• Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
• 1973 Montreal Museum Of Fine Arts, Montreal
• Powerhouse Gallery, Montreal
• W.O.R.K.S. Conceptographic Reading of Our World Thermometer, Calgary, Alberta
• Vehicule Drawing Show, Vehicule Art Inc. Montreal
• 1972 McGill University, Montreal
• Terre des Hommes, Montreal
• Europahaus Print Show, Vienna, Austria
• Inaugral Exhibition, Vehicule Art Gallery, Montreal

Performances

• 1998 "Spice Girls at the Rivoli", YYZ Gallery fundraiser benefit; Toronto
• 1987 - 88 "It was a Classic Detroit-Style Robbery"
• 1987 "The 1812 Overature - An Ongoing Saga" collaboration with choreographer Gail Benn
• 1986 "Missed Liberty"; Managua, Nicaragura; A Space Gallery, Toronto
• 1986 "Dance to Life" collaboration with choreographer Gail Benn, Pavlychenko Dance Studios, Toronto and Calgary
• 1978 "Choreography with Myself"; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
• 1977 "Clouds of Magellean" collaboration with composer Ted Dawson; Powerhouse Gallery, Montreal; Pollack Hall, McGill Univ., Montreal; and Array Music tour
• l975 "A Natural Way to Draw"; Vehicule Art Gallery, Montreal; C.E.A.C. Gallery, Toronto
• 1972 "Behavioural Prints", artist's studio
• 1970, 1971, 1972, & 1973 Annual Feast" (event); artist's studio
• 1970 "Bisecting Space"; artist's studio

Video

• 1972-75 "On Stage" 7 minute DVD loop from original slide show
• 1973-4 "Box Concert" 1/2", B&W, 5 min. continuous loop
• 1975 "A Natural Way to Draw", 3/4", colour, 25 min.
• 1976 "The Painter and the Paintee" 1", colour, 30 min. (no distribution)
• 1976 "Choreographies on the Dotted Line" 1/2", B&W, 13 min.
• (tapes distributed by V-Tapes, Toronto(

Print Portfolios

• 2004 AA Bronson & Suzy Lake, Open Studio, Toronto, Ontario
• 1980 Jeux d'Image: 4 X16 X20 , Rene Payant; Pierre Boogaerts, Suzy Lake, Serge Tousignant, Bill Vazan (S. Lake: "Phrases") colour photography
• 1976 Olympic Posters, Gilles Gheerbrant; Vehicule Press, off-set press posters
• 1975 The Loyola Photographer's Workshop Album, 10 artists, S. Lake: "Adapting to Taste"

Bibliography

Selected books/journals:

• 2006 Radical Gestures: Feminist Performance Art in the US and Canada, 1970's to c.2000, by Jayne Wark, McGill-Queens University Press, ISBN 0-7735-2956
• 2006 Carte Blanche, a compendium of Canadian photography, Magenta Ltd.
• 2004 Portraits in Contemporary Photography, by Andre Gilbert; J'ai VU publications; Montreal, Quebec
• Caught in the Act: An Anthology of Performance Art By Canadian Women, by Johanna Householder and Tanya Mars, YYZ Books
• Point & Shoot: Performance and Photography, France Chouiniere and Michele Theriault eds., Dazibao Books
• 2003 Faking Death: Canadian Art Photography since 1955, by Penny Cousineau-Levine, McGill/Queen's University Press
• 1999 Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century, by Joan Murray, Dundurn Press
• 1990 Performance in Canada 1970-1990, A. Richard & C. Robertson eds. Coach House Press Thirteen Essays on Photography, Gail Fischer-Taylor editor, Canadian Museum of
  Contemporary Photography
• 1988 Contemporary Photography, Karyn Allen, George Walsh, Colin Naylor, & Michael Held. Editors, MacMillan Press (journals division), second printing
• 1976 From the Center: Feminist Essays on Women's Art, by Lucy Lippard, Clarke, Irwin and Co.

Selected Catalogues:

• 2006 Suzy Lake: Concealment/Revealment, Hallwalls Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.
• 2004 The Unseen Cindy Sherman: Early Transformations 1975-1996, curator Gail Stavitsky, Montclair Art Museum; Montclair, New Jersey, USA
• Attitudes et Comportements: Suzy Lake, curator Jocelyn Fortin, Musee Regional de Rimouski (exhibit 2002/ catalogue launched 2004)
• 1993 Point of Reference, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa
• 1992 Beau: A Reflection on the Nature of Beauty on Photography, by Martha Langford. Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography; Ottawa
• La Collection- Tableau Inaugural, Musee d'Art Contemporain; Montreal, Quebec
• 1990 Authority is an Attribute?c#2, by Ingrid Jenkner, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ont
• 1977 Magma, Romana Loda, Museo Castelvecchio, Rome, Italy
• 1976 Indentite/Identifications, Centre des Arts Plastiques Contemporains, Bordeaux, France
• 1976 Photo and Idea, Galeria Communale d'Arte Moderna, Parma, Italy

Selected Magazines:

• 2005 "Canadian Idol Suzy Lake" by Lee Rodney, XX Women in Contemporary Art and Culture, Issue #4 Fall, Pg 3 6- 40
• "Whatcha Want? Is a Canadian Idol," by Murray Tong, Research Magazine, University of Guelph, Volume XX Number 1 Summer 2005, Pg 34-37
• 2004 "Suzy Lake's Cult of the Idol" by Patrick Holland, C Magazine, issue #82 summer issue, p 81-82
• 2003 "What Suzy Lake Can Do That Brittany Spears Can't", by Corinna Ghasnavi, Prefix Photo, vol.4, no 2, pages 46 - 55
• 1999 "Suzy Lake: Women's Work", by Deborah Davis, Canadian Art, p.87, Vol. 16, no 2.
• "The Memory of Skin" by Robert Enright, BorderCrossings, p.4, issue #72.
• "Suzy Lake: Paul Petro Contemporary Art", by Lee Rodney, C Magazine, p. 19, vol.64
• 1994 "Researching the Self, an Interview with Suzy Lake", by Robert Enright, Border Crossings, Jan. issue, vol 13 number 1, pages 10 - 22 & cover photo.
• 1991 "Free Trade" by Bill Jones, Arts Magazine, Feb. p.43
• 1978 "Sztuka kobiet [Women's Art]", by B. Baworowska, Sztuka, Warsaw, Poland, 5,4: 69-70, 86, 89
• 1975 "Suzy Lake par Suzy Lake: images et metaphores", by Laurent Lamy, Vie des Arts, spring, 32-33
• 1974 "Flash Art U.S.A. and Canada" by Giancarlo Politi, Flash Art, Oct/Nov 48-49, p51

Public and Selected collections:

• Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo
• Prudential Life Assurance Co.
• London Regional Art Gallery, London
• Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa
• Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa
• Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Montreal
• Museum Lodz, Poland
• Lavalin, Montreal
• Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
• McCarthy Tetrault, Toronto
• Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph
• Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal
• Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton
• Musee du Quebec, Quebec City
• Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg
• Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge
• Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
• Nickel Arts Museum, Calgary
• Univ. of Calgary; Calgary
• The National Film Board Stills Div. Ottawa
• Laurentian University, Sudbury
• Labatt Ltd., London
• Western University, London
• Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina
• Glenbow Art Gallery, Calgary
• Osler Hoskin and Harcourt, Toronto