Hillary Goidell is a photo-based artist whose work centers on the body, individual and collective, and considers the complexities of its form, incarnations, and constant recalibrations.
She collaborates with choreographers to document bodies in movement and narrate the emotional and physical labor of dance-making, extending this observational practice by writing and performing creative audiodescription. On a broader scope, her photography explores human fault lines at the intersection of strength and vulnerability like illness, end of life, and gestures of care.
She has brought image-making into her work across disciplines, from her field research in anthropology to creative production and teaching. In turn, these foundations along with decades living in France solidly inform her thinking and process.
Hillary holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Anthropology/French from Amherst College, Master’s in Anthropology from Université de Paris VII, and pursued PhD research at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). Her work has been shown in exhibitions in California and France/Germany, and published internationally in a variety of museum catalogs and magazines. www.hillarygoidell.com