Lacey McKinney lives and works near Syracuse, New York. Born in 1984, she studied at the State University of New York at New Paltz and graduated with a Master of Arts in Painting and Drawing in 2012. She is an Assistant Professor of Visual and Performing Arts at Finger Lakes Community College. McKinney references embodiment and the implications of social power structures. In her most recent work, depictions of differing corporeal flesh form faces of women to address perceptions of self and other. Feminist theory influences her as well as how women are represented throughout art history and popular culture.
