Suzanne Lacy is a Los Angeles–based artist and pioneer of socially engaged public performance art. Her installations, videos and performances deal with sexual violence, rural and urban poverty, incarceration, labour and aging. The artist’s large-scale projects span the globe, including England, Colombia, Ecuador, Spain, Ireland and the US. In 2019, she held a career retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Her most recent project, Uncertain Futures, which she initiated in 2019, has explored intersectional issues on paid and unpaid work through the lens of women over the age of 50, focusing on gender, age, race, disability and class. On view at the Manchester Art Gallery, its final exhibition presents the concluding element of an immense collaborative work combining art, research and activism. Lacy is a professor at the Roski School of Art and Design at the University of Southern California and a resident artist at the 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, California.