Name Hannah Collins Role Artist | Nominations Turner Prize | |
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Books Finding, Transmitting, Receiving | ||
Education Slade School of Fine Art | ||
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Hannah Collins (born 1956) is a British contemporary artist and filmmaker. Collins's works treat the collective experiences of memory, history and the everyday in the modern world. She is known for her photographic installations, but has also made films with gypsies in Spain and in a village in rural Russia.
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Biography
Collins studied at Slade School of Fine Arts in London (1974–78) and in USA with the Fulbright Scholarship (1978–79). Besides her activity as a plastic artist, she teaches in schools such as the University of Davis, California and the Royal College of Art, London. She was visiting professor at Le Fresnoy, Studio national des Arts Contemporains, Roubaix, in 2007–08.
She has had many international exhibitions and her work is in numerous public and private collections including Tate Modern, Centre Georges Pompidou, MACBA Barcelona, Reina Sofia Madrid, Dallas Museum of Art, the Luxembourg Museum and the Gering Et Lopez gallery in New York. Most recently, (November 2010), she has exhibited at La Galería Javier López – Mário Sequeira, Madrid.
Nominated for the Turner Prize in 1993, Collins received the European Photography Award (1991) and the Olympus Award (2004).
Hannah Collins lives and works between London and Barcelona.
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