LORENZO PACE
B. 1943 Birmingham, Alabama
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

Lorenzo Pace moved to Chicago as a teenager and went on to receive a B.F.A. and an M.F.A. at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, followed by a doctorate in art education at Illinois State University. After relocating to New York City in the 1980s, Pace became immersed in the downtown art scene, performing frequently and collaborating with the Plexus International and 22 Wooster St groups, also exhibiting with Tribes and Wilmer Jennings Gallery-Kenkeleba. He taught for over fifty years and was the director of the Montclair State University Galleries from 1993 to 2013. Pace’s work has been included in major exhibitions such as Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949–1979, curated by Paul Schimmel at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in 1998; Locating The Spirit: Religion and Spirituality in Africa and American Art, curated by Deborah Willis at the Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum in Washington D.C. in 1999; Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery organized by a curatorial team led by Lowery Stokes Sims in 2006 at the the New York Historical Society, among many others. Pace's work is included in several institutional collections including the Perez Art Museum of Miami, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the DuSable Black History Museum in Chicago, and The Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, as well as other notable private collections.