14 Facts About Susan Hiller

Susan Hiller was a US-born, British conceptual artist who lived in London, United Kingdom.

Susan Hiller's practice spanned a broad range of media, including installation, video, photography, painting, sculpture, performance, artist's books and writing.

Hiller was born in Tallahassee, Florida, on March 7,1940, Susan Hiller was raised in and around Cleveland, Ohio.

Susan Hiller later cited minimalism, Fluxus, aspects of Surrealism and her study of anthropology as major influences on her work, as well as aspects of feminism.

Susan Hiller's first exhibition was a group show at Gallery House in London in 1973 that she organised with her friends Barbara Ess and Carla Liss.

Susan Hiller engaged with such experiences and phenomena which defy logical or rational explanation through the rational scientific techniques of taxonomy, collection, organization, description and comparison.

Susan Hiller insisted on blurring the boundaries between cultural definitions of "rational" and "irrational", at the same time reinstating the validity of the unconscious as a source of knowledge or truth.

Susan Hiller described her practice as "paraconceptual", a neologism that places her work between the conceptual and the paranormal.

Susan Hiller refers to this precarious positioning of her oeuvre as 'paraconceptual,' just sideways of conceptualism and neighbouring the paranormal, a devalued site of culture where women and the feminine have been conversely privileged.

Susan Hiller died in London on January 28,2019, from pancreatic cancer at the age of 78.

Susan Hiller was widely influential as a teacher for a younger generation of British artists and was named by the critic Louisa Buck as one of the key progenitors of the young British artists' movement that emerged in the UK in the 1990s.

British artists who were taught by Susan Hiller include Sonia Boyce, Zarina Bhimji, Tacita Dean, Douglas Gordon, and Jane and Louise Wilson.

Susan Hiller was well known for her writing and lecturing about art.

In 2000, Susan Hiller curated the Hayward Touring exhibition Dream Machines.