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Susan Hiller

Susan Hiller is perhaps best known for her installations, multi-screen videos and audio works which are based on specific cultural artifacts from our society. Much of her work explores the liminality of things like automatic writing, dear death experiences, and paranormal activity. Hiller was influenced by Minimalism and Conceptual art as she began to make work in the early 1970s. Her practice has also been informed by her training in anthropology, a field she abandoned when she decided, during a lecture on African Art, that she would pursue art instead.


Hiller was born in 1950 in Tallahasse, Florida and has been mainly based in London since the early 1960s. After studying film and photography at The Cooper Union and archaeology and linguistics at Hunter College in New York, Hiller went on to a National Science Foundation fellowship in anthropology at Tulane University in New Orleans. Her career has been recognized by survey exhibitions at the ICA in London, ICA in Philadelphia, Museu Serralves in Porto, Castello di Rivoli in Turin, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and by a major retrospective exhibition at Tate Britain.

Born 1940
Hometown Tallahassee, FL
Lives and Works London, UK
Education
B.A., Smith College, Northampton, MA, 1961
Ph.D. Anthropology, Tulane College, New Orleans, LA, 1965
Permanent Collection

Augustin and Isabel Coppel Collection, Culiacan, Mexico

Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam

Arts Council of Great Britain, London

British Council, London

British Museum, Department of Prints & Drawings

Centre Georges Pompidou (Musée National d’Art Moderne), Paris

Centro de Arte Cpntemporanea Imhotim, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Colby College Museum of Art, Colby, Maine

Contemporary Art Society, London

Des Deutschenes Bundestages Art Collection, Berlin

Ella Fontanals Cisneros Foundation, Miami, Florida

Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain de Bourgogne (FRAC), Dijon, France Government Art Collection (GAC), London

Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo

Helga de Alvear Foundation, Caceres

Henry Moore Sculpture Collection, Leeds

Hymen Collection of British Photography, London

Imperial War Museum, London

Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Ludwig Museum, Cologne

Moderner Museet, Stockholm

Museum of London

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Museum Sztuki, Lodz

National Gallery of Art of South Australia, Adelaide

National Museum of Norway, Oslo

National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.

Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island Seibu Saison Corporation, Japan

Seralves Foundation, Porto

Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna

Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Mass., USA

Tate Gallery, London

The Hymen Collection of British Photography

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography

UBS Bank Collection, Zurich

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Zabludowicz Collection, London

Representing Galleries

Lisson Gallery, New York, NY

SHOWS

Drawing Room

London
Sep 10 2020 - Nov 01 2020

Not Without My Ghosts: The Artist As Medium

New Museum

New York
Jul 20 2016 - Sep 25 2016

THE KEEPER

Tate Britain

London
Apr 12 2016 - Aug 29 2016

Conceptual Art in Britain: 1964-1979

Lisson Gallery

London
Jan 22 2016 - Mar 12 2016

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