Hilary Lloyd’s work centres on film and video whilst also using sculpture, painting and installation. Engaging directly with their sites of production or of exhibition making, the films resist conventional notions of ‘duration’, instead representing filmic tableaux’s to be encountered. Some are almost devoid of movement or incident, while others employ a rapidly panning or shifting point of view. The work involves a tension between an ambiguous, seemingly casual subject matter and a precise arrangement of images and installation equipment.
Hilary Lloyd (b. 1964) has exhibited internationally, with recent solo exhibitions including: Dog bEar Scarf, Josey, Norwich (2022); Car Park, Sadie Coles HQ, London (2019); Chance Encounters V, Loewe Foundation, Miami (2019); Bar, BAR, Turin (2019); Theatre, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea (2017); Awful Girls, Dorich House Museum, Dorich House Fellowship & Dora Volume 1, Kingston (2017); Blaffer Art Museum, Houston (2016); Robot and Balfour, Sadie Coles HQ, London (2015); Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (2012, accompanied by an extensive catalogue); Artists Space, New York (2011); Raven Row, London (2010); Tramway, Glasgow (2009); Le Consortium, Dijon (2009); Kunstverein München (2006); Waiters, Henry Moore Foundation Contemporary Projects, Venice Biennale (2003); Kino der Dekonstruktion, Frankfurter Kunstverein (2000); and Chisenhale Gallery, London (1999). She was nominated for the 2011 Turner Prize for her exhibition of 2010 at Raven Row, London. Current and recent group shows include: Gonna get you Gonna get you, BAR, Turin (2023): Superficial Authenticity: Politics at the Surface, Filet, London (2022); REPEATER, Sadie Coles HQ, London (2022); Unhappiness is Treason I, Show me Yours (The Politics of Aesthetics), Filet, London (2021); Masculinities: Liberation through Photography, Barbican Centre, London (2020, travelling to Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin in 2020); On masculinity, Bonner Kunstverein, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2019); Palimpsest, Lismore Castle Arts, Waterford (2019); The Policeman’s Beard Is Half Constructed: Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Bonner Kunstverein (2017); Dora, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University (where she was appointed the first Dorich House Fellow in 2015); Over you / you, 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts Ljubljana (2015); A Singular Form, Secession, Vienna (2014); Remote Control, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2012); and Turner Prize, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead. Lloyd lives and works in London.