Discipline: Visual Art

Susan Hiller

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: London, UK
MacDowell Fellowships: 1975
More: www.susanhiller.org
Susan Hiller After a year in New York studying film and photography at The Cooper Union and archaeology and linguistics at Hunter College, Hiller went on to do postgraduate work at Tulane University in New Orleans with a National Science Foundation fellowship in anthropology. After several exhibitions of her paintings and a series of collaborative ‘group investigations’ in the early 1980s she began to make innovative use of audio and visual technology. Her groundbreaking installations, multi-screen videos, and audio works have achieved international recognition and are widely acknowledged to be a major influence on younger British artists. With a practice extending over 40 years, Susan Hiller is considered one of the most influential artists of her generation. Her work is found internationally in both private and public collections and her career has been recognized by mid-career survey exhibitions at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts (1986) and Tate Liverpool (1996), and, most recently by, a major retrospective exhibition at Tate Britain (2011).

Studios

New Hampshire

Susan Hiller worked in the New Hampshire studio.

New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…

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