Hannah Collins is a contemporary artist

Artist

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 and filmmaker.

Hannah Collins makes work on the collective experiences of memory, history and the everyday in the modern World. She is known for her photographic installations but has also recently made films with gypsies in Spain and in a village in rural Russia.

Collins studied at Slade School of Fine Arts in London (1974–78) and in USA with the Fulbright Scholarship

Fulbright Program

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 (1978–79). Besides intense and significant activity as a plastic artist she dedicates herself to teaching, lecturing in renowned schools such as the University of Davis, California and the Royal College of Art

Royal College of Art

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, London. She was visiting professor

Professor

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 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

Tate Modern

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, Centre Georges Pompidou

Centre Georges Pompidou

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, MACBA

Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art

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 Barcelona, Reina Sofia

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

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 Madrid, Dallas Museum of Art

Dallas Museum of Art

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, 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

Turner Prize

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in 1993, Hannah Collins received the European Photography Award (1991) and the Olympus Award (2004)

Hannah Collins lives and works between London and Barcelona.

Filmography

2008

Solitude and Company - Produced by Hannah Collins and Le Fresnoy, Studio National, France.

2007

Parallel - Produced by Basilisk Communications, London

La Mina 2001-2007 - Produced by Seacex, Spain

2006

Beshencevo - A Current History - Produced by Hannah Collins, Biennale de Sevilla, Caixa Forum, Film London

2002

La Mina - Produced by Hannah Collins and Mercury Films

Buscando la Vida - Produced by Hannah Collins

2001

La Cantante - Produced by Basilisk Communications, London

Books

• The Fragile Feast. Routes to Ferran Adria, Ed. Hatje Cantz, Barcelona, 2011.
• Hannah Collins, Historia en curso. Películas y fotografías, Obra Social Fundación “La Caixa”, Barcelona, 2008
• Parallel, ACTAR, Barcelona 2008. ISBN 9788496954380
• Finding, Transmitting, Receiving, Hannah Collins, Black Dog Publishing, 2007. ISBN 9781904772798
• Shopping, ed. Echo Books, Barcelona, 1996.
• A Worldwide Case of Homesickness, ed. Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 1996.
• The Hunter’s Space, ed. Chisenhale Gallery , London, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, 1995.
• Legends, ed. Matt’s Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Orchard Gallery Derry, 1988.

External links

• Hannah Collins official website