Hannah Collins

She was nominated for the 1993 Turner Prize.

Hannah Collins studied at Slade School of Fine Art. The recorded working language is English. Work by Hannah Collins is recorded in the collections of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Tate, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, MACBA Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art and Israel Museum. Distinctions recorded are Fulbright Scholarship and Spectrum – Internationaler Preis für Fotografie.

Collins studied at Slade School of Fine Arts in London (1974–78) and in USA on a Fulbright Scholarship (1978–79). Collins' works form a reflection on issues such as the collective experiences of memory, the spaces that have marked and continue to mark cultural and social history, and figures in everyday life and in modern life. Her work incorporates notions of otherness, time, loss and transformation, and spans historical narratives, still lives and occasional portraits within an expanded field of photography. She has made films with Romani in Spain and in Russia living for extensive periods of time amongst the community. She has also made extensive photographic works with tribal groups in the Colombian Amazon. Besides her activity as a plastic artist, she has taught in schools such as the University of California, Davis, and the Royal College of Art. She was visiting professor at Le Fresnoy, Studio nacional 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 Sprengel Museum Hannover. She has won several prizes including the Spectrum Award from the Sprengel Museum Hannover (2015), the European Photography Award (1991) and the Olympus Award (2004). She was nominated for the Turner Prize (1993).

2001 • La Cantante – Produced by Basilisk Communications, London 2002 • La Mina – Produced by Hannah Collins and Mercury Films 2006 • Current History - Produced by Hannah Collins • Beshencevo – A Current History – Produced by Hannah Collins, Biennale de Sevilla, Film London 2007 • Parallel – Produced by Basilisk Communications, London • La Mina 2001–2007 – Produced by Seacex, Spain 2008 • Solitude and Company – Produced by Hannah Collins and Le Fresnoy, Studio National, France.

• Hair Shawl, Hannah Collins, produced and published in 1997 by Les Maîtres de Forme Contemporains (mfc-michèle didier). Silk screened and hand painted image. • Edition for Camden Art Centre, 2015 produced by the artist. Silkscreened silver gelatin print. • Magic in Nature. Edition for Whitechapel Gallery, London, produced by the artist. Selenium toned silver gelatin print with hand printed label, framed.