Born in Detroit, Suzy Lake began her art practice in 1968 after moving to Montreal. In 1978 she settled in Toronto where she today lives and works. Among Lake’s exhibitions are a major mid-career retrospective at the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (1993), and a full-career retrospective at the Art Gallery of Ontario (2014). Other significant exhibitions include those at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and Sammlung Verbund in Vienna. In 2016 Lake received the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, and the 2016 Scotiabank Photography Award.