Susan Hiller was born in the USA and has lived and worked in London since the early 1970's, when she first became known for an innovative and influential practice in a wide range of media, from drawing to video. The common denominator in all her works is their starting point in a cultural artefact from our own society. Her work is an excavation of the overlooked, ignored, or rejected aspects of our shared cultural production, and her varied projects collectively have been described as "investigations into the 'unconscious' of culture."
Susan Hiller's recent solo exhibitions include:
2002
Museet fur Samidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark
2001
Gagosian Gallery, New York
2000
"Witness", Artangel commission at The Chapel. London
1999
Delfina Gallery, London
Tensta Konsthalle, Stockholm
1998
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
Projektgalerie, Leipzig
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
1997
Foksal Gallery, Warsaw
1996
Tate Gallery, Liverpool (retrospective)
Her recent group exhibitions include:2002
Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2001
Empathy, Taidemuseon, Pori, Finland
2000
Bienale de Habana, Havana, Cuba
Live in Your Head: Conceptual Art in Britain 1965-75, Whitechapel Gallery, London; Museu do Chaido, Lisbon, Portugal
Intelligence, Tate Triannale, London
Amateur/Eksdale, Kunstmuseum, Goteborg, Sweden
1999
The Muse in the Museum, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1998
Out of Actions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
In Visible Light, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
1996
Inside the Visible, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Whitechapel Gallery London
Now/Here, Louisiana Museum, Humlabaek, Denmark
Susan Hiller was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998. She has been awarded a DAAD Fellowship in Berlin for 2002-2003. . Her publications include: Thinking about art: conversations with Susan Hiller ( Manchester University Press, 1996); After the Freud Museum, (Book Works, 1996 & reprinted 2000); and Witness, (Art Angel Afterlives, 2000). In 2000/01 she curated "Dream Machines", an international, cross-generational group exhibition. Susan Hiller holds the newly-created Baltic Chair of Contemporary Art at the University of Newcastle, Department of Fine Art