Hollis Sigler Enter a
feeling, not
a gallery.
Choose a mood and the room itself answers — the light cools or warms, the air changes pace, and only the works that carry that feeling step forward from the dark. Everything else recedes into shadow.
Hollis Sigler
A Visionary of the Interior: The Life and Legacy of Hollis Sigler In the vibrant, often turbulent landscape of late twentieth-century American art, few voices resonated with as much intimate intensity as Hollis Sigler. Born Suzanne Hollis Sigler in 1948 in Gary, Indiana, her journey was one of profound transformation—not only of the self but of the very medium through which she communicated. Moving to Cranbury, New Jersey, during her c
hildhood, she developed an early sensitivity to the domestic sphere, a theme that would later become the stage for her most poignant explorations of femininity and mortality. After honing her craft at the Moore College of Art in Philadelphia and earning her MFA from the prestigious School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1973, Sigler emerged as a formidable presence in the Chicago art scene, ready to challenge the established hierarc…