Lutz Bacher lived and worked in New York (d. 2019). Recent solo exhibitions include Fridericianum, Kassel (2021); University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine (2019); Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2018); Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (2018); KADIST, San Francisco (2017); Yale Union, Portland (2016); Greene Naftali Garage, Brooklyn, New York (2016, 2015, 2014); Secession, Vienna (2016); Aspen Art Museum (2014); Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (2014); Kunsthalle Zurich (2013); Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2013); Portikus, Frankfurt (2013); and the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive (2012).

Her work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.