Hildegarde Duane

Hildegarde Duane, a native Californian, has been exhibiting narrative art since 1976 when she wrote and directed the first museum video catalog for “East is Red” (contemporary Chinese Art) at the Long Beach Museum of Art. Work reflecting that period’s concerns with the dissolution of borders between media, feminism, identity and the role of the outsider with her trinity of humor, glamour and power, Duane’s narratives of belonging and revelation take shape in videos, photos stories, calligraphy, a blog: hildegarden.wordpress.com

As well as solo work, her three decade collaboration with David Lamelas continues to the present with video, installations and photography.

Duane attended Barnard College, New York Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, and Harvard University’s PhD program in Chinese Art History. She has worked as a museum curator, University lecturer and producing partner with Sir Ben Kingsley. Her works of art are held in collections including  Museum of Modern Art, New York, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid and other galleries and museums worldwide. She is the recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and the National Endowment for the Arts.