Susan Elting Hillyard
Education
• Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, BA English Literature, minor Art
• San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, Graduate studies in
photography
• Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA, Course work in photography
• Cabrillo College, Aptos CA, Course work in photography
• San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, MLS, Library Science
Exhibits
featured and solo exhibitions (*indicates solo exhibit)
• CounterCulture Museum, San Francisco, 2025
*Trees, Phoenix Commons, Oakland, CA 2024*
*Preacher’s Daughter, Alameda, CA 2022
• On the Road to the Summer of Love, California Historical Society, San
Francisco 2017
• Wildlife Beyond Borders, Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove, CA 2016
• Wild Above, Wild Below, San Francisco Zen Center, San Francisco, CA 2016 *
• Unbridled, Santa Cruz County Bank, Santa Cruz CA 2016
• Wildlife Beyond Borders, PhotoCentral, Hayward CA 2015
• Local Color, State Senator Monning’s Office, Santa Cruz CA 2015-2016 *
• The Art of Dance, R. Blitzer Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA 2014
• The Beast Project (collaborative exhibit with two visual artists and a writer)
Sagebrush Art Center, Sheridan, WY January, 2014
• Spirit of the Wild Mustang, Vino Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 2013 *
• The Spirit of the Wild Mustang, Woodside Library, Woodside, CA March-
April 2011 *
• Grateful Dead Images from the Sixties, Pearl on Irving, San Francisco, CA
February – April 2011 *
• Haiku, Kelly Street Gallery, Half Moon Bay, CA March, 2011
• Different Directions, Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove, CA January –
February 2011
• Grateful Dead Images from the Sixties, Y Studio, Santa Cruz, CA 2010 *
• Out of Here, Santa Cruz County Government Center, November 2009 –
January 2010
group shows (recent)
*Frame 1A Gallery, Alameda CA 2025
• Barcelona Foto Biennale, Barcelona, 2024
*2022 International Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA 2022
• Alameda on Camera, Frank Bette Center for the Arts, Alameda, CA 2020, 2021, 2025
• The Meaning of Green, Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland, CA 2020
• A Ballad of Our Changing World, PhotograHER, Online 2020
• Lineage and Legacy: The Imaged Horse, Ucross Foundation Gallery,
Clearmont, WY 2018
• Imagemakers: 20 Years of Creativity, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel,
CA 2017
• Point of Transition, Fraction Brewery, Alameda CA 2017
• Members’ Juried Exhibition”, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, 2016
• Images from a Glass Eye, (International Exhibit), Tehama County Photo
Club, Red Bluff, CA, 2016
• 29th Annual Juried Members Show, Texas Photographic Society, San Antonio
Public Library, 2016
• 4th Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary Photography, Palazzo
Italia(Römischer Hof), Berlin, 2016
• Angles, Lines, and Curves: Architecture of the World, Filoli, Woodside, CA
2015
• Photo Alchemy: Alternative Processes in Photographic Media, Pajaro Valley
Arts Council, Watsonville CA, 2015
• Photography: The Full Spectrum, Carter House Gallery, Redding, CA 2014
• ImageMakers @ MOM, Museum of Monterey, Monterey, CA 2014
• Celebrating the Building Trades, Avery Gallery, Seaside, CA 2014
• Cimarron Sky Dog Equine Photography, Collected Works Bookstore, Santa
Fe, NM 2014
• The Visual Narrative, Minneapolis Photo Center, Minneapolis, MN 2014
• The Whole Earth. California and the Disappearance of the Outside, Haus der
Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Germany, 2013
• Sharing our World: Animals Seeing Each Other, Santa Fe Photographic
Workshops, 2013
• New Mexico, Matrix Gallery, Albuquerque, NM 2013
• Photo ID, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA 2013
• 2012 Center for Photographic Art Juried Exhibition, CPA, Carmel, CA 2012
• Member’s Exhibit, Texas Photographic Society, 2012
• Journeys, Davenport Gallery, Davenport, CA 2011
• Art in Nature, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO 2011
• Images from A Glass Eye, The Big Picture, Red Bluff, CA 2011
• Art of Photography, The Davenport Gallery, Davenport, CA 2011
• Artists Among Us, Eloise Smith Gallery, Cowell College, UC Santa Cruz,
2011
• 16@49, Modernbook, 49 Geary St., San Francisco, CA March 2011
• Flowers, Trees, Birds, Bees, Vermont Photo Place Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2011
• 50-50, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA 2010
• Abstract Images, Vermont Photography Workplace, Online Exhibition, 2010
• Different Directions III, Four Women Photographers, Louden Nelson Center,
Santa Cruz 2010
• Bay Area Wildlife: Beautiful, Vital, and Fragile, Filoli, Woodside, CA 2010
• Los Pajaros, Pajaro Valley Art Center, Watsonville, CA 2010
• 24th Annual Members’ Exhibition, Texas Photography Society, Austin, TX
2010
• Pinhole Show, RayKo Photography Center, San Francisco, CA Juried
Exhibition 2010
Artist in Residence
• Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY 2018
• Playa Artist Residency Program, Summer Lake, OR 2017, 2021
• Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, Saratoga, WY 2016
• Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA 2012, 2015, 2017
• Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA 2011, 2014
• Le Moulin a Nef, Auvillar, France, 2013
• Jentel Foundation, Banner, WY 2013
• Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL 2011
Published Works (Recent)
*McNally, Dennis, The Last Great Dream, Dimensions Press, 2025
• Scott, Felicity, Outlaw Territories, Zone Books/MIT Press, 2015
• Shadow and Light, Vol 1, #1, featured artist, October 2014
• Phren-Z, online literary journal, featured artist, August 2012
• A Collection of Works by Women Photographers, The Worldwide Photography
Gala Awards, 2011,
• B&W Magazine, 2010, 12 (72), 108
• Flight, Vermont Photography Workplace, Blurb.com, 2010
• Hillyard, S., The Spirit of the Wild Mustangs, Blurb.com, 2010
• Bernstein, D, ed., The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s
Counterculture and the Avant-Garde, UC Press, Berkeley, CA. 2008
Awards
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*Alameda on Camera, Marketing Award, 2025
• Prix de la Photogrphie de Paris, 2023, Honorable Mention
*Images from a Glass Eye, (International Exhibit), Tehama County Photo
Club, 2016, Third Place
• Development Grant, Arts Council of Santa Cruz County, 2014, 2015
• Cimarron Sky Dog Equine Photography, 2014, Honorable Mention
• Love, Worldwide Gala Competition, 2013, Honorable Mention
• Sharing our World: Animals Seeing Each Other, Santa Fe Photographic
Workshops, 2013, Honorable Mention
• Member’s Exhibit, Texas Photographic Society, February 2012, Honorable
Mention
• Haiku, Kelly Street Gallery, 2nd place, 2010
• Julia Margaret Cameron International Women’s Award, Finalist, 2010
• Equine Ideal Photography Contest, Fifth and Sixth place awards, 2010
• Warhol Now and Then, De Young Museum, College Night, Lead Image, 2009