Hannah Wilke (b. New York, NY, 1940; d. Houston, TX, 1993) trained at Stella Elkins Tyler School of Fine Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, and began exhibiting her work in 1961. Key solo museum exhibitions during her life included Hannah Wilke: Scarification Photographs and Videotapes at Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine in 1976, and Hannah Wilke: A Retrospective at the University of Missouri in 1989. Major solo presentations of her work since her death include a touring exhibition of Intra-Venus (1994 - 1997), Hannah Wilke, A Retrospective, which travelled from Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, to BildMuseet, Umea, Sweden and Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki (1998 - 1999), and an important recent exhibition, Hannah Wilke: Gestures, at the Neuberger Museum of Art, New York (2008). Her work features in many of the worldʼs most significant collections of contemporary art including Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate, London; The Centre Pompidou, Paris; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
