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ARTIST STATEMENT

Su Legatt’s creative research explores personal associations with object and/or place, how these relationships are formed, and why they might fade. Investigating the world of memory, architypes, and social constructs, Legatt explores the ever-changing structures of community and culture. Starting with her own learned history, she combines her background in experimental photography with community engagement techniques to develop exchanges that focus on empathy and education. Starting with the individual experience or conflicting curated histories, Legatt creates opportunities for exchange and artifacts for dissemination to authentically capture the evolving complexity of a Minnesota’s collective identity. 

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BIOGRAPHY

Su Legatt is a social practice photographer based in rural Minnesota. Her creative research explores personal associations with object and/or place, how these relationships are formed and why they might fade. Floating in the worlds of memory, architypes, and social constructs, Legatt explores the ever-changing structures of community and culture. Starting with her own prejudices and learned history, she merges a wide variety of photographic, and alternative digital printing processes with community engagement techniques to develop exchanges that focus on empathy and education. Legatt creates opportunities for exchange and artifacts for dissemination in an effort to authentically capture the complexity of the region’s identity.

 

As a graduate of Minnesota State University Moorhead and Utah State University, she has taught courses and workshops at North Dakota State University, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Lake Superior College, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Parsons New School, the International Center for Photography, and many other locations throughout the country.

 

Legatt is the recipient of the Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, Individual Artist Grant from the Lake Region Arts Council, and has worked on projects for the National Endowment for the Arts, ArtPlace America, Bush Foundation, Environmental Initiative, and more. 

 

Legatt is currently the Program Officer for the Central MN Arts Board and lives in Big Lake, MN with her husband, Kris, and son, Alex.

 

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