Hiller, Susan

LC control no.	n 85818020
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Hiller, Susan *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Hiler, Suzan הלר, סוזן
Other standard no.	0000 0000 8350 5768 500031751 2566403 Q292115
Birth date	1940-03-07
Death date	2019-01-28
Place of birth	Tallahassee (Fla.)
Place of death	London (England)
Field of activity	Conceptual art Anthropology
Affiliation	University of Ulster University of Newcastle
Profession or occupation	Artists Art teachers
Special note	Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found in	nuc85-44639: Her Sisters of Menon, 1983 (hdg. on NN rept.: Hiller, Susan; usage: Susan Hiller) LC data base, 10-1-85 (hdg.: Hiller, Susan) Susan Hiller, 1996: p. 92 (b. 1940 in the U.S.; studied for Ph.D. in anthropology in Central America; resides in London) Sheloshah omanim, osef eḥad, c2010: t.p. (סוזן הלר = Suzan Hiler) Guardian WWW site, viewed Feb. 1, 2019 (Susan Hiller, artist, born 7 March 1940, Tallahassee, Fla.; died 28 January 2019; in 1965 Susan Hiller was in New Orleans, sitting through a lecture on African art, during the final year of her doctorate in anthropology, when it dawned on her that she could pursue all the things that had originally interested her about anthropology through art; Hiller's celebrated career as a conceptual artist, which included investigations into auras, alien sightings and mystic rituals, and incorporated installation, film, painting, writing, sculpture and photography, did not start until she settled in London later that decade; in 1957, she went to Smith College, in Northampton, Massachusetts, to take a BA in American studies; on graduation in 1962, Hiller spent a year in New York, exploring her interest in film and photography at the Cooper Union, and archaeology and linguistics at Hunter College, before returning to study for a doctorate in anthropology in New Orleans and undertaking fieldwork in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize; she was a professor of art at the University of Ulster in Belfast from 1986 until 1991, and taught at the University of Newcastle from 1999 until 2002) New York times, 4 Feb. 2019: in an obituary on page D10 (Susan Hiller, born on Mar. 7, 1940 in Tallahassee, Fla., died on Jan. 28 in London, aged 78; lived in London; a leading British conceptual artist whose video, audio and photographic installations ingeniously explored extinct languages, alien abductions, girls with psychic powers and the Holocaust; Ms. Hiller's mysterious and dreamlike art, which often made use of marginalized and forgotten artifacts of modern culture, played at the precipice between reality and the subconscious and often explored the paranormal)