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  • Curriculum Vitae

    Curriculum Vitae

    Edward Hillel

    61 Jane Street
    New York 10014, New York
    Tel: (212) 255-4286
    Fax: (212) 255-9579
    Email: ehillel@mindspring.com

    Selected Solo Exhibitions

    2003 Art Gallery of Hamilton
    Musée d'art contemporain Marseille
    2002 Museum of Modern Art Manchester
    Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale
    2001 Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Prague
    Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Paris
    2000 Foto Biennale, Rotterdam
    1999 Museum of Modern Art, Weimar
    Gedenskstätte Deutscher Widerstand, Berlin
    Schwartzsche Villa, Berlin
    Institut Français, Berlin
    Galerie l'H du Siège,Valenciennes
    Musée municipal de Denain, Denain
    1997 Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Paris
    Espace Saint-Cyprien, Toulouse
    Galerie Municipale Léopold Sédar Senghor, Grenoble
    1996 Goethe Institut, Paris
    1994 Mémorial du Martyr Juif Inconnu, Paris
    1993 Strathearn Gallery, Montreal
    1992 Saidye Bronfman Gallery, Montreal
    1991 Galerie du Parc, Geneva
    1990

    Mois de la Photo, Canadian Cultural Center, Paris
    Barbara Silverberg Gallery, Montraal

    1986 Ginza Photo Salon, Tokyo

    Selected Group Exhibitions

    2001

    Artcité, Musée d'art contemporain, Montreal

    2000 FF, Galerie Carousel, Paris
    ARCO, Feria Internacional de arte contemporaneo, Madrid
    Bruxelles 2000, l'Atrium, Bruxelles
    Paris Photo, Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Paris
    1999 Biennale Internazionale dell'Arte Contemporanea, Florence
    1998

    Denkbilder/Images Pensées, Galerie Carousel, Paris

    1997 Paris Photo, Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Paris
    1994 The Portrait, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, Londres
    1993 Gallery 2 1/4 x 4 1/2, Amsterdam
    1989 Musée de Civilization, Quebec
    1986 Powerhouse Gallery, Montreal
    1985 Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Universidad Aùtonomo, Mexico City
    Lieberman and Saul Gallery, New York

    Selected Publications by Edward Hillel: Books, Catalogues, Magazines

    Journées Valenciennoises, exhibition catalogue, Editions Acte de Naissance, Valenciennes, 1999

    Paris On My Mind, photo-essay, Roam Magazine, New York, June 1998

    Photography, Memory, Post-Memory: Contes mnémoniques, in "The Memory of Auschwitz in Contemporary Art", edited by Yanis Thanassekos and Daniel Weyssow, La Fondation d'Auschwitz, Brussels, 1997

    Contes mnémoniques , exhibition catalogue, Editions Visions, Montreal, 1995

    The Nikkei Odyssey, photo-essay, Matrix Magazine, Summer 1993

    Imaging Paris, photo-essay, Asahi Shinbun Magazine, May 1993

    Les Pierres Qui Parlent, text by Jacques Langlais and David Rome, Editions Septentrion, Quebec, 1992

    Images de Jamaique, Vogue, France, March 1989

    The Main: Portrait of a Neighbourhood, Key Porter Books, Toronto, 1987

    The Montagnais Indians: Living In Two Worlds, Canadian Geographic Magazine, December 1980

    Photographs published in many international magazines since 1980 until the present

    Recent Texts about Edward Hillel

    L'actualité de l'art contemporain , Journal des Arts, January 2000

    Kritikerpreis, Berliner Zeitung, 7.5.2000

    Frits Gierstberg, Re/constructing History, in "Positions Attitudes Actions", Rotterdam 2000

    Stefanie Endlich, Edward Hillel : Fragmente, Berlin/Weimar 1999, Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand  

    Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Edward Hillel mémoires bérlinoises, Art Press no. 252 December 1999

    Edward Hillel auf der Suche nach Erinnerung , Die Welt, 24.6, 1999

    Antoine Jurga, Edward Hillel, Le bâtisseur de mémorial volatile, in  ddo : Bimestriel de la création    contemporaine de l'eurorégion Nord, numéro 36,  April-June 1999

    Vincent Lavoie, Edward Hillel, in Parachute, June/July/August, 1998

    Michèle Cohen-Hadria, Edward Hillel : une stèle vous regarde, in Next arte e cultura, no. 42/43 1998

    Arno Gisinger, Paris : neue alte Haupstadt de Fotografie?  in Eikon, February, 1998

    Aden, Le Monde, 12.11, 1997

    Sylvie Perreaud, Les contes mnémoniques d'Edward Hillel, in Dauphiné Libre Grenoble, 31.3, 1997

    Montréal au XXème siècle, Regards de photographes, Editions de l'Homme, Montreal, 1995

    Selected Awards, Grants, Appointments

    • German Critics Prize for Visual Art 2000
    • Canadian External Affairs Visual Arts Award, 1999
    • Artist residency, Nord-pas-de-calais, France 1998
    • Institut Alain de Rothschild Grant for Photography 1997
    • Goethe Institute Exhibition Grant 1996
    • Japan-Canada Award 1991
    • Golden Sheaf Award, Yorkton Film and Video Festival, 1987
    • Canada Council for the Arts Photography Grant 1982

    Recent Teaching, Seminars and Lectures

    April 4-5, 2000: Speaker at seminar on "Commitment in Photography", Foto Biennale Rotterdam, Holland

    September 1999: Intensive teaching course to graduate students, Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany

    January-March 1999: Field-study seminar, Ecole des Beaux Arts de Valenciennes,  France

    1997-1998: Courses in Photography, WICE, Paris, France

    April 1999: Lecturer and conference leader at one-week seminar, "Photography, Memory and  Contemporary Art", Brussels, Belgium

    March-April 1997: Field-study graduate seminar in Photography and Media, Grenoble, France

    April 1996: Field-study graduate seminar in Photography and Media, Paris, France

    Collections

    • Alcan Aluminum Inc.
    • Arthothèque Grand'Place Grenoble
    • Ashdale Steel Corporation
    • Bibliothèque Nationale de France
    • Canadian Center for Architecture
    • Dukeminster Properties PLC
    • Firsurban Development Corporation
    • Hongkong Hilton 
    • Inter-Continental Hotels
    • Kunstsammlungen Museum Weimar
    • Mitsui Corporation
    • Musée d'art contemporain Montreal
    • Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaisme Paris
    • Mueum of Modern Art Montreal
    • Museum of Photography Charleroi, Belgium
    • Museum of Modern Art New York
    • Public Archives of Canada
    • Republic National Bank
    • Royal Bank of Canada
    • Seagram's Inc.
    • Winnipeg Art Gallery
    • Private Collections