Born in 1956 in London, United Kingdom

Lives and works between the United Kingdom and Spain


education

1978

Slade School of Fine Arts, London, UK


solo shows

 

2021

El Tiempo del Fuego, Maureen Paley, London (15 Sep – 24 Oct)

 

2019/2020

Hannah Collins: I Will Make Up A Song, Tapies Foundation, Barcelona/SFMOMA, San Francisco


2017 
Hannah Collins: The Interior and the Exterior (Noah Purifoy), Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco

2015 
Hannah Collins, BALTIC Centre of Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
Hannah Collins, Camden Art Centre, London, UK
SPECTRUM International Prize for Photography of the Foundation of Lower
Saxony: Hannah Collins, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany

2013 
Rock, Paper, Scissors, Galería Javier López, Madrid, Spain

2012 
The Fragile Feast, Routes to Ferran Adria, Fundació Suñol, Barcelona, Spain The Fragile Feast, Routes to Ferran Adria, Galerie Dominique Fiat, Paris
The Fragile Feast, Fundación Valentín de Madariaga. Sevilla, Spain 2011 The Fragile Feast, Banco Herrero, Oviedo, Spain
The Fragile Feast, IVORYPRESS ART + BOOKS, Madrid, Spain The Fragile Feast, Fundació Suñol, Barcelona, Spain

2010 
L'art de menjar (De la natura morta a Ferran Adrià), Caixa Catalunya La Pedrera, Spain Shadow and Clouds, Galeria Javier Lopez - Mario Sequeira, Madrid, Spain
La Revelacion del Tiempo : Películas y Fotografías (Time Will Reveal it all : Films and Photographs) , Museo de Arte, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia
Current History, Obra Social Fundacion La Caixa, Madrid, Spain Solitude & Company, Casa de la volta, Lleida, Spain

2009 
Historia en Curso, Obra Social Fundacion La Caixa, Madrid, Spain Solitude & Company, Galerie Dominique Fiat, Paris, France Showing Solitude & Company, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

2008 
Moving Image, Gering Lopez Gallery, New York, USA
Historia en Curso, ARTIUM, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporaneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain Historia en Curso, Obra Social Fundacion La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain

2007 
Paralell, La Laboral, Gijon, Spain
Moving image, Gering Lopez Gallery, New York, USA 

2006 
A future life, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain 

2004 
The Street, CAC, Malaga, Spain
La Mina, Vox Image Contemporaine, Montréal, Québec, Canada; Forum 2004, Barcelona, Spain 

2003 
Supermarket, California, Gallery Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain
Another city not my own, Peer Foundation, London, UK Medir la verdad, CAC Malaga, Spain
La Mina, Printemps en Septembre, Toulouse, France
La Mina, Nelson Gallery University of California, Davis, California, USA Inner Views, Galerie Solertis, Toulouse, France

2002 
Mirror, Gallery Lei, Barcelona, Spain
New works, Gallery Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain Hotel of being, Gallery Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain

2000 
My body and place, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA Mmultiple City, Galerie Arlogos, Paris, France

1999 
Life on film Gallery Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain 1998 True stories Castelli Gallery, New York, USA

1997 
Filming things Centre Nationale de la Photographie, Paris, France
In the course of time, a worldwide case of homesickness, Sala Parpalló, Valencia, Spain In the course of time, Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastian, Spain
Fundació Sa Nostra, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

1996 
A worldwide case of homesickness, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland CCA Gallery, Glasgow, UK
Shopping, Gallery Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
Luminous liquid breaths, Gallery Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
The hunter's space, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, UK
Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain

1995 
Still-lives, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA
The hunter's space, the village,L'Aquarium, Valenciennes, France Slow time, Gallery Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain

1994 
Signs of life, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA 1993 The turner prize, Tate Gallery, London, UK
In the course of time, Centre of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain

1992 
Signs of life, 3rd Istanbul Biennale, Turkey 

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

1989 
Viewpoints,Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis, USA Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
Works, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK Stairway to heaven, Hacienda Club, Manchester, UK

1988 
Heart and soul, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK 

1987 
Film stills, Matt's Gallery, London, UK
Shelf, situation, shrine, Colindale Hospital, Public Art Development Trust, London, UK 

1986 
Evidence in the streets, Interim Art, London, UK


group shows

 

2020

Cámara y ciudad, Caixa Forum, Barcelona

Mushrooms: The art, design and future of fungi, Somerset House, London

We Will Walk – Art and Resistance in the American South, Turner Contemporary, Margate

 

2019

Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, London

Feast for the Eyes, The Story of Food in Photography (Travelling Exhibition: Louisiana Museum of Art and Science; FOAM Amsterdam; C/O Berlin; The Photographers’ Gallery; Hasselblad Foundation Gothenburg)

 

 

2018

25 Years! Shared Histories, Shared Stories, Foto Museum, Winterthur

Poster Project, Swiss Cottage Library, London

 

2015 
La Piel Translucida, Palacio de Cibeles, Madrid, Spain

 


2014 
Freud and Eros: Love, Lust and Longing, Freud Museum, London, UK
Cruce de colecciones, Atlantic Centre of Modern Art, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain

2012 
Le Grand Atelier, MAC's, Musée des Arts Contemporains - Site du Grand-Hornu, Belgium
Singulier(s)/Pluriel. Le Cnap au LaM, LaM (Lille métropole musée d'art moderne d'art contemporain et d'art brut), Lille, France 

2011 
Beyond Conventions, Ford Foundation, New York USA
Collector : Artworks from Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Lille 3000, Tripostal Lille, France Singulier(s)/Pluriel. Le Cnap au LaM, LaM Villeneuve d'Ascq France
La Memoria del en la Era de lo Global Centro Wifredo Lam, La Habana Cuba Midnight Party, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis USA
L'art de menjar (De la natura morta a Ferran Adrià), Caixa Catalunya La Pedrera Songs of The Swamp, Kunsthalle Exnergasse I WUK , Wien Austria
Artists' Choices, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Israel

2010 
Le Meilleur des Mondes, curator Enrico Lunghi, MUDAM Luxembourg
La Memoria del otro, curator: Anna María Guasch, Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile 

2009 
Strange Places, Urban Landscape Photography, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University
Art in Public Places , Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK Solitude & Company, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Panorama 9-10, Le Fresnoy, France
Cartografias disidentes, Centreo Cultural de Espana en Mexico, Centro de Artes Provinciales, Holguin, Cuba; Centro Cultural San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas, Venezuela; Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
La Memoria del en la Era de lo Global, Museo de Arte de la Universidad de Bogota, Colombia Frontiera. Paesaggi Metropolitani, Bergamo Film Meeting 2009, Porta S. Agostino, Bergame, Italy Beshencevo a Current History, Theater Gallery, Colby Museum, Waterville, Maine, USA

2008 
Body Pleasure/Body Pain, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Artistas y Fotografos, Imagenes para una coleccion, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, Spain
Cartografias Dissidentes, Centro Cultural de Sao Paulo, Brasil

2007 
Cartografias Dissidentes, Sealex, Museo de Arte de Chile, Santiago, Chili
Current history, Biennal of Seville, Spain
Time present, time past, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey Barcelona 1947 - 2007, Fondation Maeght, Saint Paul, France Lisbon Images, Museo Municipal de Faro, Portugal
De leur temps (2), Art contemporain et collections privées, Musée de Grenoble, France
Les Temps Modernes, Domaines de Kerguénnec - Centre d'art contemporain, Bignan, France 

2006 
Biennale of Seville (BIACS 2), curator: Okwui Enwezor
Glaskultur - Qué paso con la transparencia?, Centre d'art la Panera, Lérida, Spain
Peintres de la Vie Moderne - life painters - Donation - Caisse des Dép's photograph collection, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France
Cross-referenced messages - Talk with reality in time, Artium Centro-museo Vasco de Arte Contemporaneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

2005 
Wunderkammer, the artificial kingdom, The Collection (Usher Gallery City and County Museum), Lincolnshire, curator:
Edward Allington
Citadinos, Arte Y Naturaleza Centro de Arte, Madrid, Spain
Miradas de mujer - 20 fotografas espanolas, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vicente, Sgovia, Spain
Nuevas Tecnologia-Nueva Iconografia-Nueva Fotograpfia, Museo de Arte Abstracto Espanol, Cuenca, Spain
b.a.-ba un choix dans la collection du FRAC Bretagne, Domaine de Kerguennec - Centre d'art contemporain, Bignan, France

2004 
El Somni Erotic, Centre d'art de la Panera, Lerida, Spain
De leur temps. Collections privées françaises, Musée des Beaux Arts de Tourcoing, France
Nuevas Tecnologia - Nueva Iconografia - Nueva Fotograpfia, Museu D'art Espanyol Contemporani (Fundacion Juan
March), Plma de Mallorca, Spain

2003 
After the news, cccb, Barcelona, Spain

2002 
Collection falcon ordonez, San Sebastian, Spain Seeing things, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK Group show, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA
Buscando la vida, 35mm Feature Film, Sitges Film Festival, Spain Acquired works, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland Grace and gravity, Gallery Estrany, La Mota, Barcelona, Spain

2001 
New works, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain
Recent works on paper, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA Group show, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, USA
Giorgio Morandi, Artist1s contribution, Tate Gallery, London, UK 

2000 
Façons de peindre, Gallery Laage Salomon, Paris, France
Opening exhibition Tate Modern, London, UK Commissioned print selection Tate Modern, London, UK Deutsche Bank Collection, Deutshe Bank, London, UK

1999 
Dobles vidas, Museo de Textil, Barcelona, Spain
Ragtime, Gallery Estrany de la Mota, Barcelona, Gallery Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain Sublime, the darkness and the light, John Hansard Gallery, Angel Row Gallery and touring Fora de camp, Metrònom Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Four walls film programme, National Theatre, London, UK
Invisible museum, House, Cairo, Egypt

1998 
Thinking aloud, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge Cornerhouse, Manchester, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK Fictions intimes, (Fond National d'Art Moderne) Fundacion Miro, Barcelona Espace Electra, Paris, France Contact, City Poster Project, Cardiff, UK
Insite 98, The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, USA 

1997 
Surroundings, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
The city and the stars, Galeria Luis Serpa Projects, Lisbon, Portugal Paved with gold, Kettle's Yard, Universtiy of Cambridge, UK
Landscape, the pastoral to the urban, Centre for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, New York, USA

1996 
Prospect 96, Frankfurt, Germany
Exergue, Centre d'art Contemporain, FRAC Basse Normandie, Caen, France Contructions, Gallery Laarge Salomon, Paris, France
Le monde après la photographie, Villa Arson, Nice, France Warworks, Canadian Centre for Photography, Toronto, Canada
Photography Art Vehicle / Art Material, Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow, Poland Absolute landscape, Yokohama Museum, Japan
Desert, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton Gallery, UK 

1995 
Warworks, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Sites of being, Institute of contemporary Art, Boston, USA
British sculpture, Weltkunst Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland Le monde après la photographie, Musée d'Art Moderne, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France Vues intérieures, Fond Régional d'Art Contemporain Bretagne, Chateaugiron, France Incidentes, Xunta de Galicia, Casa de Parra, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

1994 
Image/Image, Museum of Art, Ghent, Belgium
A positive view, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Los generos de la pintura, Museo Español de Arte Moderno, Madrid, Spain Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Gran Canaria, Spain

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

1992 
In vitro, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
The last days, Salas del Arenal, Expo'92, Seville, Spain
Twelve stars, Arts Council Gallery, Belfast, UK; City Art Centre, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, UK; Barbican Art Gallery, Lon don, UK

1991 
European photography award exhibition, Künstler Werkstatt Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany Out of limbo, Fundación Luis Cernuda, Seville, Spain
De-composition, British Council touring exhibition Portraits, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, USA Art et essai, Université de Rennes, France

1990 
Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
To be or not to be, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain British artists in russia, Kiev, Ukraine, Moscaw, Russia
Images in transition, Modern Art Museum, Kyoto, Japan Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
The sybilline eye, Künstlerwerkstatten, Munich, Germany

1989 
That which appears is good... Tanja Grunaert Gallery, Cologne, Germany Une autre objectivite, Centre Nationale des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France Museo del Prato, Italy
Malasia, Gallery La Máquina Española, Madrid, Spain Portraits, Contemporary Art Foundation, Amsterdam, Holland
Shifting focus, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol / Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Polaroid works, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK L'invention d'un art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

1988 
Australian Biennale, Sydney and Melbourne, Australia Aperto'88, Venice Biennale, Italy
A british view, Für Gestaltung Museum, Zürich, Switzerland Another objectivity, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK Matter of facts, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France Musée d'Art Moderne, St. Étienne, France
Nobody's fool. De Appel Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
The revenge of recollection, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria 

1987 
The british edge, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
Towards a bigger picture, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
The big picture, the new photography, John and Mable Ringling Museum, Florida, USA Under the sign of saturn, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, UK

1986 
Antidotes to madness, Riverside Studios, London, UK


collections

Colby College Museum of Art, USA 
Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, USA 
Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis, USA 
Victoria and Albert, Museum, London, UK 
The British Council, London, UK
The Arts Council of Great Britain, London, UK 
The Hyman Collection, London, UK
FRAC Rhone-Alpes, France
FRAC Bretagne, France FNAC France
FRAC Basse Normandie, France 
Fundacio Banestof, Spain
The European Parliament, Strasbourg, France Polaroid International
Cultural Rioja, Spain Diputacion de Almeria, Spain
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
Weltkunst Foundation Fundacion Telefonica, Spain 
Diputacion de Cadiz,Spain 
Diputacion de Murcia,Spain
Fundacion Botin,Santander, Spain 
Caja La General, Granada, Spain
Centro de Cultura, las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain 
Museo de Alava, Votoria, Spain
Banco de Espana, Madrid, Spain 
Ayuntamiento de Logrono, Spain 
Ayuntamiento de Pamplona, Spain 
Reina Sofia Museo, Madrid, Spain 
The Tate Gallery, London, UK 
MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France 
Luxemburg Museum, Luxemburg
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA