Anne Collier

In 1993, Anne Collier received her BFA from the California Institute of the Arts, in Valencia, California.{{Cite web |last=Paik |first=Sherry |date=2021 |title=Anne Collier Biography, Artworks & Exhibitions |url=https://ocula.com/artists/anne-collier/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221105174718/https://ocula.com/artists/anne-collier/ |archive-date=5 November 2022 |access-date=5 November 2022 |website=Ocula |language=en}} In 2001 Collier received her MFA at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She currently lives and works in New York City.{{cite web|title=Anne Collier|url=http://www.corvi-mora.com/biography/annecollier/|publisher=Corvi Mora|accessdate=10 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923210622/http://www.corvi-mora.com/biography/annecollier/|archive-date=23 September 2015|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=Anne Collier's C.V.|url=http://www.antonkerngallery.com/system/curriculum_vitaes/5/original/CV_Anne_Collier.pdf?1481398090|publisher=Anton Kern Gallery|accessdate=10 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170120173406/http://www.antonkerngallery.com/system/curriculum_vitaes/5/original/CV_Anne_Collier.pdf?1481398090|archive-date=20 January 2017|url-status=dead}} She is currently represented by Anton Kern Gallery in New York, The Modern Institute in Glasgow, and Galerie Neu in Berlin.

Beginning in 2006, Collier has been collecting (re-photographing) images of "women posing with cameras as if they were photographers."

More specifically, this ongoing project tackles the perception of women in the photographic medium. In the series, Collier use common mechanisms found in advertising as she isolates old forms of media—photos, pages from books and magazine, cassette tapes, and record albums—and reshoots them.{{cite news |last1=Robertson |first1=Rebecca |date=20 November 2014 |title=Anne Collier's MCA Chicago Retrospective Explores the Male Gaze |work=ARTnews |url=http://www.artnews.com/2014/11/20/anne-collier-at-mca-chicago/ |url-status=live |access-date=5 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210925144956/https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/anne-collier-at-mca-chicago-3136/ |archive-date=25 September 2021}} The re-photographed material typically features a woman holding a camera and by photographing this woman, Collier suddenly switches the subject from the woman photographed to the viewer, thus making the viewer question and reflect their position as a viewer.{{cite web |date=2014 |title=Anne Collier |url=https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/221-anne-collier |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124151208/https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/221-anne-collier |archive-date=24 November 2020 |accessdate=10 March 2015 |website=CCS Bard |publisher=}}

As Osman Can Yerebakan, art writer for Art Observed, aptly described Colliers' the Woman with a Camera series: "Film stills of actresses such as Faye Dunaway, Jacqueline Bisset or Marilyn Monroe with cameras in their hands adopt the position of the gazer, staring at the viewer as the roles exchange. These iconic women, commonly positioned as the objects of male gaze, confront the voyeuristic notions of the public eye with cameras in their hands, repositioned as the voyeurs. Attributing physical and emotional power to the camera as a metaphor, Collier celebrates the status as the gazer these women reclaim through their own hands."{{cite web |last1=Yerebakan |first1=O.C. |date=29 August 2014 |title=Annandale-on-Hudson – Anne Collier at CCS Bard Galleries Through September 21st, 2014 |url=http://artobserved.com/2014/08/annandale-on-hudson-anne-collier-at-ccs-bard-galleries-through-september-21st-2014/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420052104/http://artobserved.com/2014/08/annandale-on-hudson-anne-collier-at-ccs-bard-galleries-through-september-21st-2014/ |archive-date=20 April 2021 |access-date=5 November 2022 |website=Art Observed |publisher=}}

The Woman with a Camera series led to the publication of Women with Cameras (Anonymous) in 2017 which collected 80 "found amateur photographs of women with cameras."{{Cite web |last1=Collier |first1=Anne |last2=Als |first2=Hilton |date=2017 |title=Women with Cameras (Anonymous) |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/982650189 |access-date=5 November 2022 |website=Worldcat |language=en}}

Starting in the 2010s, Collier has been photographing images from comic strips and vintage album covers that focus on images of women crying. These images are focused in on the depictions of women's tears in these images.{{Cite web |last=Thorne |first=Harry |date=January 2021 |title=Anne Collier - Galerie Neu |url=https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/202001/anne-collier-81785 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126043202/https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/202001/anne-collier-81785 |archive-date=26 January 2022 |access-date=5 November 2022 |website=Art Forum |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |last=Hamilton |first=Diana |date=9 May 2018 |title=Anne Collier: Reducing Women To Tears |language=en |work=Frieze Magazine |issue=196 |url=https://www.frieze.com/article/anne-collier-reducing-women-tears |url-status=live |access-date=5 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220613235435/https://www.frieze.com/article/anne-collier-reducing-women-tears |archive-date=13 June 2022 |issn=0962-0672}}

In 2014, a retrospective of Collier's work opened at Center for Curatorial Studies, or CCS Bard Galleries at Bard College. The exhibition traced her career from 2002 to present. Encompassing around forty works, the exhibition presents several recurring subjects and themes that have dominated Collier’s practice over the past decade. The exhibition includes the notable Woman with a Camera series.

This exhibition has traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago on November 22, 2014 through March 8, 2015, and will travel to Aspen Art Museum on April 2 through July 15, 2015, and then at The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto from September 23, 2015 to January 10, 2016.{{cite web |date=2016 |title=Anne Collier |url=https://ago.ca/exhibitions/anne-collier |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211223075911/https://ago.ca/exhibitions/anne-collier |archive-date=23 December 2021 |accessdate=12 September 2015 |website=Art Gallery of Ontario |publisher=}} The exhibition was organized by curator Michael Darling, and was accompanied by essays by Darling, curator Chrissie Iles, and the novelist Kate Zambreno.{{cite web |date=2014 |title=Anne Collier |url=https://mcachicago.org/Exhibitions/2014/Anne-Collier |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220603060036/https://mcachicago.org/Exhibitions/2014/Anne-Collier |archive-date=3 June 2022 |accessdate=12 September 2015 |website=Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago |publisher=}}

Typically, Collier creates photos from other existing photographic materials to examine the ways meaning and cultural values are embedded in photographic images. Her work typically involves arranged still life compositions of found photographic material (such as record covers, magazine pages, appointment calendars, and postcards).{{cite web |last=Respini |first=Eva |date=2012 |title=New Photography 2012 - Anne Collier |url=http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2012/newphotography/anne-collier/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418140857/https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2012/newphotography/anne-collier/ |archive-date=18 April 2021 |accessdate=12 September 2015 |website=MoMA |publisher=}}{{Cite web |title=Anne Collier |url=https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/anne-collier |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20221105180848/https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/anne-collier |archive-date=5 November 2022 |access-date=5 November 2022 |website=The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation |language=en-US}}

Re-occurring themes in Collier's work include pop culture and psychology, consumerism, feminism, gender politics, clichés & tropes, and conventions of commercial photography, autobiography, and the act of looking or seeing.

Collier's works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago,{{cite web |title=Anne Collier |url=https://www.artic.edu/artists/112437/anne-collier |website=The Art Institute of Chicago |access-date=10 March 2023 |language=en}} The Guggenheim,{{cite web |title=Anne Collier |url=https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/anne-collier |website=The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation |access-date=10 March 2023}} the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston,{{cite web |title=Anne Collier |url=https://www.icaboston.org/artists/anne-collier |website=Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston |access-date=10 March 2023 |language=en}} the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,{{cite web |title=Anne Collier |url=https://collections.lacma.org/node/159876 |website=LACMA Collections |access-date=10 March 2023}} the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago,{{cite web |title=Anne Collier |url=https://mcachicago.org/About/Who-We-Are/Artists/Anne-Collier |website=Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago |access-date=10 March 2023}} the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,{{cite web |title=Anne Collier |url=https://www.moca.org/artist/anne-collier |website=Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles |access-date=10 March 2023}} the Museum of Modern Art,{{cite web |title=Anne Collier |url=https://www.moma.org/artists/39651 |website=Museum of Modern Art |access-date=10 March 2023}} the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw,{{cite web |title=Anne Collier |url=https://artmuseum.pl/en/kolekcja/artysci/anne-collier |website=Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw |access-date=10 March 2023 |language=en}} the National Museum of Women in the Arts.{{cite web |title=Women With Cameras (Anonymous) |url=https://nmwa.bibliovation.com/app/work/23487 |website=NMWA Library & Research Center |access-date=7 March 2023}} the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,{{cite web |title=Collier, Anne |url=https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/Anne_Collier/ |website=SFMOMA |access-date=10 March 2023}} the Tate Modern,{{cite web |title=Anne Collier born 1970 |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/anne-collier-12039 |website=Tate |access-date=10 March 2023}} the Walker Art Center,{{cite web |title=Anne Collier |url=https://walkerart.org/collections/artists/anne-collier |website=Walker Art Center |access-date=10 March 2023}} and the Whitney Museum of American Art.{{cite web |title=Anne Collier |url=https://whitney.org/artists/10203 |website=Whitney Museum of American Art |access-date=10 March 2023 |language=en}}

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• [http://www.antonkerngallery.com/artist/anne-collier/ Anne Collier – Anton Kern Gallery, New York]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20150910155548/http://www.marcfoxx.com/ Anne Collier – Marc Foxx, Los Angeles]
• [http://www.themoderninstitute.com/exhibitions/5452/images Anne Collier – The Modern Institute, Glasgow]
• [http://www.bard.edu/ccs/exhibitions/anne-collier/ Bard College - Exhibitions: Anne Collier]
• [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/01/arts/design/anne-collier-a-photography-retrospective-at-bard-college.html?_r=0 A Tale in Pictures of Pictures]
• [https://frieze.com/article/anne-collier-reducing-women-tears/ Hamilton, Diana "Anne Collier: Reducing Women To Tears" Frieze, May 9, 2018]

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