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I developed this print from an image in AN ENTERTAINMENT, my 4-walled video projection originally commissioned by Robin Klassnik for Matt’s Gallery in 1990/91.

Biography
Susan Hiller (b.1940, Tallahassee, Florida). In a distinguished career of more than 30 years, Susan Hiller has drawn upon sources as diverse as dreams, postcards, Punch & Judy shows, archives, horror movies, UFO sightings and narratives of 'near death experiences' to make powerful and seductive works out of ephemeral, sometimes seemingly unimportant items, works that do not just illustrate or catalogue but instead involve the audience as witness to the lacunae and contradictions in our collective cultural life. Susan Hiller graduated from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts in 1961 and went on to postgraduate study at Tulane University in New Orleans with a National Science Foundation fellowship in anthropology. After conducting fieldwork in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize, she became uncomfortable with academic anthropology's adherence to scientific claims of objectivity and decided to become an artist.

Susan Hiller first exhibited at Matt's Gallery in 1980 with Work in Progress. Her film installation An Entertainment was commissioned by Matt's Gallery in 1990 and is now in the Tate Collection, London. Hiller's subsequent work has been recognized by mid-career retrospectives at London's Institute of Contemporary Art (1986) and Tate Gallery, Liverpool (1996); major solo museum exhibitions and monographs; inclusion in significant international group exhibitions and public collections; and by awards such as the Guggenheim fellowship (1998) and DAAD residency (2002). Her work is widely acknowledged to be an important influence on younger British artists. Susan Hiller lives and works in London and Berlin. For additional information, please consult www.susanhiller.org Susan Hiller is represented by Timothy Taylor.

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