Biography
Kathryn Hillier was born in 1979 in Sacramento, California. Shortly
after earning her BFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute,
she moved to Brooklyn, New York, where she now lives and works. In 2007,
she had her first solo museum exhibition at the Nederlands FotoMuseum,
Rotterdam. She was awarded a CNAP grant from the French Ministry of
Culture for her first solo gallery exhibition at Galerie Philippe Chaume,
Paris, in 2006. She was awarded the Photography Grand Prize at the Festival
d'Hyeres, France, in 2005, and was commissioned the following year to
create and exhibit a series about the city of Hyeres, France. Her work
was included in The 2005 Art + Commerce festival of Emerging Photographers.
Portfolios of her work have been featured in Numero, Big, De Volkskrant,
Elle Italia, and PDN's 30. Her work has been included in group exhibitions
in New York, Los Angeles, Milan, Naples, and Paris (amongst others).
She is currently working on a photographic still life collaboration
with Rebecca Veit; they are currently Artists-in-Residence at Workspace,
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 2009-2010.
Statement
"My work centers on the dichotomy between nature and culture. Many
focus on the fabrication of nature, of nature distilled for scientific
investigation, of nature manicured, controlled, and contained.
I am interested in instances which touch on the paranormal, which converge
with transformation, a quotidian science fiction.
Within these environments, there is an underlying sense that a balance
has ruptured, pushed beyond the border of the ordinary, reaching into
the realm of the perceptive.
My photographs are collected and edited from moments while traveling,
sights that are both sought-out and found by happenstance."