Suzanne Bocanegra

Suzanne Bocanegra (1957, Houston, USA) is a visual artist living and working in New York. Best known for her work in performance and installation, blurring the boundaries between theatre and museum. Bocanegra’s Artist Lecture performances have been presented in museums, galleries, and theatres across the United States, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Pulitzer Foundation, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and in the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

In 2019, a major show of Bocanegra’s work titled Poorly Watched Girls was presented at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. Also in 2019, her solo show Wardrobe Test was the inaugural exhibition at ART CAKE, an exhibition space in Brooklyn. Her work is in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, among others.

Bocanegra is the recipient of numerous awards, including grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2020, she received the Robert Rauschenberg award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.