ABOUT
Liz Hingley is an artist and anthropologist, born and raised in Birmingham, a UK city home to over 180 nationalities. Her interdisciplinary practice blends photography, sculpture, and workshop processes to illuminate systems of belonging and belief that shape societies around the world. Grounded in ongoing exchange with the people and places that her projects relate to, her works draw on the connections between languages, technology, and generations. She is the author of five books.
She founded The SIM Project in 2017, a mobile collection of personal artefacts made in workshops, which give tangible meaning to people’s virtual networks and explore how the images we create and exchange through our smartphones map our place in the world.
Liz is currently Artist in Residence at Kings College London (Digital Humanities) and an Honorary Research Fellow at The University of Birmingham (Theology and Philosophy). She has also held positions at the Migration Research Centre, University College London, SOAS University (South Asia Institute) and the University of Austin in Texas (Art History). Between 2013 and 2017 she lived in China as a visiting scholar at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.
Within her complimentary curatorial practice she has produced international exhibitions including Picturing Displacement at the Royal Photographic Society (2023) and Eruptions, the art of Poulomi Basu (2020) at SIDE Gallery. Liz recently completed her role as a trustee of the AmberSide photography and film collection which is inscribed in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register.
C. Sam Peach
EXHIBITIONS
The SIM Project, GetxoPhoto, Spain, 2023
The SIM Project, Science Gallery London, UK, 2022
Eruptions, A decade of work by Poulomi Basu, SIDE Gallery, Newcastle, UK, 2021
A Passage Though Passages, The Brunei Gallery, London, UK, 2020
Finding Space, The Institute of Physics, London, UK, 2019
Change In View, Swiss Cottage Gallery, London, UK, 2019
Sacred Shanghai, Victoria Gallery, Liverpool, UK, 2019
Sacred Shanghai, Ian Parry Awards, Southbank, London, UK, 2019
Multiple Realities, Library of Birmingham, UK, 2019
Desire Lines, TATE Exchange, TATE Modern, London, UK, 2019
209 Women, Portcullis house, Westminster, UK, 2019
La Chatonnière of Deauville, Planche(s) Contacts, France, 2019
Shanghai Sacred, Pingyao International Photofestival, China, 2018
Up To Now, FABRICA Photography, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2018
Breathing Brass, FORMAT, Derby, UK, 2017
Under Gods, SIDE Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2017
Making Space, The University of Birmingham, UK, 2017
Resonance 感应, OCAT Museum, Xi’an, China, 2016
Shanghai Shrines, 上海圣坛’, FL:EX GALLERY, Shanghai, China, 2016
Belief On the Move, FhotoDok, The Netherlands, 2016
Shanghai Sacred, DongGang Museum of Photography, Korea, 2016
Shanghai Sacred, Ray Arts Centre, Shanghai, China, 2015
ODEON Theatre, selected artist for the 2014-15 programme, Paris, France, 2015
Stories from Soho Road, Guernsey Photography Festival, UK, 2015
The Jones Family, Festival Images Singulières, France, 2015
End Of Lines, ONE gallery, Shanghai, China, 2015
Spiritual Objects, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow, UK, 2013
Under Gods, St Mungo’s Museum of Religious Life, Glasgow, UK, 2013
The Jones Family, L’ Hôtel de Sauroy, Paris, France, 2012
Under Gods, The Visual Arts Centre, The University of Texas at Austin, USA, 2012
Under Gods, Le Petit Poule Noire Gallery Paris, France, 2012
The Great British Public, The White Cloth Gallery UK, 2012
Under Gods, Fotofestival Hannover, 2012
World Photography Organization, Somerset House London, 2012
Our Lives, picturing child poverty in Britain, The House of Commons, London, 2012
Under Gods, HOST Gallery, London, UK, 2011
Under Gods, No Found Photo Fair at Paris Photo, France, 2011
Under Gods, Passage Du Grand Cerf, Paris, France, 2011
Our Lives, picturing child poverty in Britain, St Barnabas House, London, UK, 2011
PDN award exhibition, Ring Cube Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2011
The Jones Family, Ian Parry Scholarship, Getty Image Gallery, London, UK, 2011
Under Gods, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, 2010
The Ian Parry Scholarship, Getty Image Gallery, London, UK, 2010
Under Gods, Visa pour l’ image festival, Perpignan, France, 2010
Under Gods, Rencontres d’Arles festival, France, 2010
Under Gods, Studio de la Citta, Verona, Italy, 2010
Taylor Wessing Portrait prize, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK, 2010
AWARDS & GRANTS
Royal Photographic Society International Photography Exhibition Award, 2021
Grand Winner, International Photography Awards One Shot - Pandemic Perspectives, 2021
Lens Culture Art Photography Award, 2021
Prix Levallois Award, 2019
Prix Pictet Hope, nominated, 2019
Sony World Photography Award, 2016
Social Documentary Network Award, 2015
The World Report Spotlight Award, 2014
Photo Philanthropy Professional Activist Award Grand Prize, 2013
PX3 Prix De La Photographie, Paris. Portraiture, 2013
Prix Virginia, inaugural award and commission, 2012
Open Society Institute Grant, 2011
Getty Image Editorial Grant, winner, 2011
Alexandra Boulat Scholarship winner, 2011
Selected as one of PDN’s 30 Photographers, 2011
Ian Parry Photography Scholarship, 2011
Eugene Smith Award, finalist 2010
Canon Association of Female Photojournalists Award, 2010
Magenta Foundation Flash Forward winner, 2010
Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize, 2010
Terry O’Neil Award winner, 2007
Arts Council Grants - 2019, 2017, 2011
EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS
Windows on the Move, photography project made with and for refugees and asylum seekers living in temporary accommodation in the UK
Visualising the Nature of Care, ongoing photography in nature programme for NHS Intensive Care Staff. Initiated during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020
Change In View, Community poetry and photography project with families on a rehousing scheme, commissioned by Camden Council, London, 2019
Visual methodologies workshops, London School of Economics PHS academy, 2018-19
Guest workshop facilitator, Bilder Nordic, Oslo, Norway, 2018
Writing with Light workshop facilitator, University of Texas at Austin, USA, 2018
Director of photography course for the Shanghai International Community School, China, 2016-17
Mapping Shanghai, K11 workshop and talk series curator, Shanghai, China, 2014-15
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation photographic commission and workshops, 2012