Hannah Collins


Born in London, 1956.
Lives and works in London, Barcelona and San Francisco.


EDUCATION

1974-1978 Slade School of Fine Arts, London
1978-1979 Fulbright-Hays Scholarship in USA
1991 European Photography Award, Berlin


AWARDS

1991 European Photography Award, Berlin
1993 Nominated Turner Prize, London
2004 Olympus Award


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008
Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Spain

2007
Gering & López Gallery, New York

2005
El Olor del Jazmín, Galería Javier López, Madrid

2004
La Mina, Vox Image Contemporaine, Montreal, Quebec

2003
Supermarket, California, Galería Javier López, Madrid
Another City Not My Own, Peer Foundation, London
Medir la Verdad, CAC, Málaga
La Mina, Printemps en Septiembre, Toulouse
La Mina, Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, California

2002
Mirror, Galería Lei, Barcelona
New Works, Galería Javier López, Madrid
Hotel of Being¸Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona

2000
My Body and Place, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York

1999
Life on Film, Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona

1998
True Stories, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York

1997
Filming Things, Centre Nationale de la Photograhie, Paris
In the Course of Time, A Worldwide Case of Homesickness, Sala Parpalló, Valencia
In the Course of Time, Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastián
Fundació Sa Nostra, Palma de Mallorca

1996
A worldwide case of Homesickness, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
CCA Gallery, Glasgow
Shopping, Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona
Luminous Liquid Breaths, Gallery Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
The Hunter's Space, Chisenhale Gallery, London
Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester
Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona

1995
Still-Lives, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
The Hunter's Space, The Village, L'Aquzrium, Valenciennes
Slow Time, Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid

1994
Signs of Life, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York

1993
The Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London
In Course of Time, Centre of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona

1992
Signs of Life, 3rd Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul

1991
Stonefree, Tinglado II, Tarragona
Paley Wright Gallery, London
S. L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto
Gallery Xavier Hufkens, Brussels

1989
View Points, Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis
Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
Works, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Starway to Heaven, Hacienda Club, Manchester

1988
Heart and Soul, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

1987
Film Stills, Matt's Gallery, London
Shelf, Situation, Shrine, Colindale Hospital, Public Art Development Trust, London

1986
Evidence in the Streets, Interim Art, London


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2005
Wunderkammer; The Artificial Kingdom, The Collection (Usher Gallery City and County Museum), Lincolnshire, Curated by Edward Allington

2003
After the News, CCCB, Barcelona

2002
Colección Falcon Ordoñez, San Sebastián
Seeing Things, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Group Show, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Buscando la Vida, 35 mm Feature Film, Sitges Film Festival, Spain
Acquired Works, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Grace and Gravity, Galería Estrany de la Mota, Barcelona

2001
New Works, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Recent Works on Paper, Leo Castelli Gallery, New Cork
Group Show, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
Giorgio Morandi, Artist's Contribution, Tate Gallery, London

1999
Dobles Vidas, Museo Textil, Barcelona
Ragtime, Galería Estrany de la Mota, Barcelona; Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid
Sublime. The Darkness and the Dark, Jaohn Hansard Gallery, Angel Row Gallery and touring
Fora de Camp, Galería Metronom, Barcelona
Tour Walls Film Programme, Nacional Theatre, London
Invisible Museum, House, Cairo

1998
Chime. Thinking Camden Arts Centre, London
Fictions Intimes (Fonds National d'art Moderne), Fundación Miró, Barcelona
Espace Electra, Paris
Contact, City Poster Project, Cardiff
Insite 98, The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore

1997
Surroundings, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
The City and the Stars, Galeria Luis Serpa Projects, Lisbon
Paved With Gold, Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
Landscape. The Pastoral of the Urban, Centre for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, New York

1996
Prospect 96, Frankfurt
Exergue, Centre d'Art Contemporain, FRAC Basse Normandie, Caen, France
Constructions, Gallery Laage Salamon, Paris
Le Monde Après La Photographie, Villa Arson, Nice
Warworks, Canadian Centre for Photography, Toronto
Photography. Art Vehicle/Art Material, Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow, Poland
Absolute Landscape, Yokohama Museum, Japan
Desert, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
John Hansard gallery, Southampton Gallery, England

1995
Warworks, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Sites of Being, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
British Sculpture, Weltkunst Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Le Monde Aprés la Photographie, Musée d'Art , Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
Vues Intérieures, Fonds Régional D'Art Contemporaine, Bretagne, Chateugiron, France
Incidentes, Xunta de Galicia, Casa de Parra, Santiago de Compostela

1994
Image/Image, Museum of Art, Ghent, Belgium
A Positive View, The Saatchi Gallery, London
Los Géneros de la Pintura, Museo Español de Arte Moderno, Madrid
Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Gran Canaria

1993
Salon de los 16, Palacio Velásquez, Madrid
Auditorio de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela

1992
In Vitro, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona
The Last Days, Salas del Arenal, Expo'92, Sevilla
Twelve Stars, Arts Council Gallery, Belfast
City Art Centre, Edinburgh; Barbican Art Gallery, London

1991
European Photography Award Exhibition, Künstle Wekstatt Bahnoff, Berlin
Out of Limbo, Fundación Luis Cernuda, Sevilla
De-COmposition, Brithish Council touring exhibition
Portraits, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
Art Et Essai, Université de Rennes, France

1990
Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles
To Be or Not to Be, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona
British Artists in Russia, Kiev, Ukraine, Moscow
Images in Transition, Modern Art Museum, Kyoto
The Sybilline Eye, Künstlewerkstatten, Munich

1989
That Which Appears is Good… Tanja Grunaert Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Une Otre Objetivite, Centre Nationale des Arts Plastiques, Paris
Museo del Prato, Italy
Malasia, Galería La Máquina Española, Madrid
Portraits, Contemporary Art Foundation, Ámsterdam
Shifting Focus, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
Serpentine Gallery, London
Polaroid Works, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
L'Invention d'un Artk, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

1988
Australian Biennale, Sydney and Melbourbe
Aperto'88, Venice Biennale, Venice
A British View, Für Gestalttung Museum, Zürich
Another Objetivity, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Matter of Facts, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France
Musée d'Art Moderne, St Étienne, France
Nobody's Fool, De Appel Gallery, Amsterdam
The Revenge of Recollection, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
The British Edge, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Towards a Bigger Picture, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1987
The Big Picture, The New Photography, John and Mable Ringling Museum, Florida and touring
Under the Sign of Saturn, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London

1986
Antidotes to Madness, Riverside Studios, London


FILMS

2004
La Mina, Rotterdam Film Festival, Netherlands

2003
La Mina, Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, California
La Mina, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France
La Mina, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, CAC, Málaga

2002
Buscando la Vida, Sitges Film Festival, Sitges, Spain

2001
La Cantante, Cambridge Film Festival, England
La Cantante, Fourth Wall, Nacional Theatre, London


PUBLICATIONS

The Street, CAC MALAGA 2003
Texts -Blake Stimson, Richard Noble, Andrew Renton
Hotel of Being, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, September 2002
Texts- Hannah Collins, Marti Peran
Life on Film, Gallery Joan Prats, September 1999
Text - Hannah Collins
Filming Things, Centre Nationale de la Photographie/Echo Books 1998
Texts - Michael Tarantino, Regis Durrand
Shopping, Echo Books, Barcelona 1997
Le Faste Etrange des Perles et des Coraux Profil Dune Colection, FRAC Basse- Normandie, catalogue, Caen 1996
Texts - Catherine Legallais
A Worldwide Case of Homesickness, Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastian 1996
Text - Catherine Legallais
Thw Hunter's Space, Chisenhale Gallery, London 1995
Text - Andrew Renton
Desvan, Gallery Joan Prats, 1995
Text - Hannah Collins
Hannah Collins, Centre d'Art Santa Monica, catalogue, Barcelona 1993
Texts - Iwona Blasswick, JosE Luis Brea
Colindale Hospital Project, Public Art Development Trust, London 1993
Text - Richard Cork
Signs of Life, Third Istambul Biennale catalogue, London 1992
Text - Michael Corris
Hannah Collins, Galeria Joan Prats, 1992
Text - George Condo
LEgends, Hannah Collins, Matt's Gallery and Institute of Contemporary Art, London 1988
Hannah Collins, Institute of Contemporary Art brochure, London 1988
Text - James Lingwood
A Worldwide Case of Homesickness, Irish Museum of Modern Art, catalogue, Dublin 1996
Text - Hannah Collins


BIBILIOGRAPHY

James Lingwood, Hannah Collins, Institute of Contemporary Art brochure, London 1988
Jean-Francois Chevrier and James Lingwood, Une Autre Obectivite, catalogue CNAP, Paris 1989
Juan Vicente Aliaga, Malaise, Gallery La Maquina Española, catalogue, Madrid 1989
Christine Frisinghelli and Manfred Willman, "Revenge of Recollection", Camera Austria magazine, Graz 1990
Mark Haworth-Booth, European Photography Prize, Berlin 1991
Catherine Legallais, "Le Nomadisme Hybride D'Hannah Collins", Art Press magazine no. 165, Paris 1992
Vincenc Altaio, Stonefree, Tinglado 2 catalogue, Tarragona 1992
Simon Wilson, The Turner Prize, Tate Gallery catalogue, London 1993
Michael Corris, "The Vulnerable Image", Lapiz No 89, magazine, Madrid 1993
Jan Hoet, Image7Image, catalogue, Ghent 1994
Juan Antonio Ramirez, Los Géneros de la Pintura, Museo Español de Arte Moderno, catalogue, Madrid 1994
Dan Cameron, "Hannah Collins", Artforum magazine, October, New York 1994
Iwona Blasswick, "The Hunter's Space", Portfolio magazine, No. 21. Edinburgh 1995
Regis Durand, Le Monde Apres La Photographie, Musee d'art Moderne, catalogue, Villeneuve Dascq, Lille 1995
Teresa Grandas, "Hannah Collins en el Transcurso del Tiempo", Arte y Parte magazine, Summer, Madrid 1996
Vincent Lavoie, « Historie Tiede », Parachute , magazine, February 1998
Hannah Collins, The Photo Book, Phaidon Press 2001
Iwona Blazwick, The Hunter's Space, Tate Modern, The Handbook 2001
Marti Peran, Espacios en Tránsito, Hotel of being Catalogue, Galería Joan Prats, September 2002
Carles Guerra, "Mesurar la veritat de Hannah Collins", La Vanguardia, September 2002
Hannah Collins, Morandi Catalogue, Tate Gallery Press, 2002
Hannah Collins, Manuel Fernandez, "Interview", Scope Magazine, Autumn 2002
Ian Farr, Art and Photography, Phaidon Press 2003


SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Diputación de Almería
FNAC (Fonds National d'Art Contemporain), France
FRAC Basse-Normandy, France
FRAC Rhône-Alpes, France
Fundación Banesto
Luxembourg Museum
MACBA, Barcelona
Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France
Polaroïd International
Museo Municipal de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
The Arts Coucil of Great Britain, United Kingdom
The British Council, United Kingdom
Parlamento Europeo, Strasbourg, France
The Tate Gallery, London
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis, USA
Weltkunst Foundation