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Susan Hiller

Susan Hiller

Susan Hiller was born March 7th 1940 and passed away January 28th 2019 she was an American-born artist who lived in London, United Kingdom. Her art practice included installation, video, photography, performance and writing.

Her practice of art and multi media lasted over 40 years, Hiller was one of the most influential artists of her generation, in the early 1980s she uses audio and visual technology. Each of her works are based off cultural artefacts from our society.

Susan Hiller: Ghost / TV - Exhibition at Matt's Gallery in London

Hiller's career was celebrated as being a conceptual artist which included many different things from auras to alien sighting and even mystic rituals and she incorporated many different type of media when doing this. Hiller's career didn't start till she moved to London.

I really like her work as I don't really think that it is similar to mine but I think that it tries into a bit with my memories theme and how I play with it.

“I always wanted to be an artist,” she told Time Out magazine in 2015, in an interview to accompany an exhibition at the Lisson Gallery in London, “but by the time I was a teenager I became aware there were no women artists: none. Later, when I discovered some, they were always denigrated.”

References:

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/susan-hiller-1286

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jan/30/susan-hiller-artist-conundrums-vivid-and-intriguing

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/feb/01/susan-hiller-obituary

Susan Hiller | Artists | Lisson Gallery

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