Jane Hilton Biography & Contact Details
Profile & Biography
Jane is a photographer and filmmaker whose work brings to our attention the extraordinary realities of ordinary people's lives. Renowned for her work documenting American Culture, in particular the American West, which she has explored for the past thirty years. Jane is fascinated by subjects that are legal but not socially acceptable.
Her monographs include "Dead Eagle Trail" (Schilt Pub, 2010) depicting the lifestyle of the twenty-first century cowboy; "Precious" (Schilt Pub, 2013) featuring intimate nude portraits of working girls in Nevada; "LA Gun Club" (self-published, 2016) exploring American Gun Culture with a collection of unique 'shot up' target posters; and most recently she released "Cowboys & Queens"(The Little Black Gallery, 2025) limited edition book to accompany her exhibition touring USA until 2026.
Her work is widely collected and exhibited with recent solo shows: "Cowboys & Queens", Freyboy Art Salon, Las Vegas (2025); "LA Gun Club" Palo Gallery, NYC (2024); "Drag Queen Cowboys" Photo London (2021).
In 2000 she was commissioned by the BBC to make a series of ten documentary films about two brothels in Nevada; "Love for Sale", the only state in America where prostitution is legal. For the last ten years she has been working on her first feature length documentary with editor Robyn Wright 'The Last Roar' following a family's fight to save their lifestyle and circus, a fight they lost after the government banned all wild animals performing in travelling circuses in 2020.
Jane lives and works in London and has exhibited internationally. She was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society in 2014 and chosen as one of the 'Hundred Heroines' representing internationally the most inspirational women in Photography today. She has appeared in numerous major publications like The Sunday Times Magazine, The Telegraph Magazine and FT Magazine.
Contact Information
Palo Gallery NYC
Website / Email / Tel: +1 (646) 877-1469
FreyBoy Art Salon, Las Vegas
Website / Email / Tel: +1 (702) 735-8322
Hulett Gallery, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Website / Email / Tel: +1 (918) 934-7240
Eleven Gallery, London
Website / Email / Tel: +44 020 8408 1961
Global Representation & All Publicity Enquiries:
Ghislain Pascal / Email
Jane Hilton / Email
Exhibitions
Solo Shows
2025 Cowboys & Queens US Tour - Las Vegas, LA, Oklahoma, NYC (2025/26)
2024 LA Gun Club - Palo Gallery, New York (Feb-Apr)
2021 For Better or for Worse - SOLARIS Gallery, St. Leonards-On-Sea (Jun-Sep)
2018 Digging His Heels In - Louboutin & RakesProgress, London (Dec-Jan)
2016 LA Gun Club - Eleven Fine Art & Photo London (May-Jun)
2015 American Cowboy - Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York (Jul-Sep)
2014 Jane Hilton's America - Schilt Gallery, Amsterdam (Apr-Oct)
2013 Precious - Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York (Jun-Jul)
2013 Precious - Eleven Fine Art, London (Apr-May)
2011 Dead Eagle Trail - Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York (May-Jul)
2010 Dead Eagle Trail - LUX Gallery, Amsterdam (Sep-Oct)
2010 Dead Eagle Trail - Crane Kalman Gallery, Brighton (Jul-Sep)
2010 Dead Eagle Trail & Book Launch - HOST Gallery, London (Apr-Jun)
Selected Group Shows
2025 Unfinished - Electro Studios, Hastings UK (March)
2024 Whose Muse - Palo Gallery, NYC (Jun-Jul)
2024 Icons of Photography - Kunst für Angeln, Germany (Oct-Nov)
2024 Insta Me Baby - Kunst für Angeln, Germany (Apr-May)
2023 Northern Eye Festival - Colwyn Bay, Wales (Oct-Nov)
2023 Maison Palo - Palo Gallery, NYC (Sep-Oct)
2023 Generations of Holocaust Survivors - Imperial War Museum North (Jan-Aug)
2022 Real Wild - Palo Gallery, NYC (Oct-Dec)
2022 City, Country, Connectivity - Kunst für Angeln, Germany (Oct-Dec)
2022 Holocaust Memorial Day - Unesco, Paris (January)
2022 Generations Portraits of Survivors - RPS House, Bristol (Jan-Mar)
2022 Coming Soon Nothing - Photo London, Somerset House (September)
2022 City, Country, Connectivity - Kunst für Angeln, Germany (Oct-Dec)
2021 Love & Pride - Trinity Townhouse, Hastings UK (Aug-Sep)
2021 Hundred Heroines Object Artefact - Grange Museum, Rottingdean (November)
2021 Generations of Holocaust Survivors - Imperial War Museum (Aug-Jan)
2021 Drag Queen Cowboys - Photo London, Somerset House (September)
2020 Valentines - Paul Smith Gallery, Albemarle Street, London W1 (Feb-Mar)
2019 Color of Light: Fifteen years of Nailya Alexander Gallery (May-Jul)
2019 Nevada - Photo London, Somerset House (May)
2019 209 Women - Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool (Feb-Apr)
2018 209 Women - Houses of Parliament, London (Dec-Feb)
2018 All Lit Up - Photo North Festival, Harrogate (Nov)
2018 We Feed the World - Bargehouse Gallery, Oxo Tower, London (Oct)
2018 Contaminated Desert - Photo London, Somerset House (May)
2017 Twenty-five Years of Americana - Photo London, Somerset House (Apr)
2016 RPS - Magic Gallery, London (Apr-Jul)
2016 The Scarlett Muse - Daniel Cooney NYC (March)
2015 Eleven Fine Art Anniversary Show - Eleven Gallery, London (Oct-Nov)
2015 American Cowboy - Photo London (May)
2014 Christmas Salon - Eleven Fine Art, London (Dec-Jan)
2014 The Future Can Wait - Charlie Smith Gallery at Frieze Art Fair, London (Oct)
2014 From the Road Again - Eleven Fine Art, London (Apr-Jun)
2013 Christmas Salon - Eleven Fine Art, London (Dec-Jan)
2013 All Lit Up - Photo Art Fair, London (May)
2013 Knock Knock - Jerwood Gallery, Hastings UK (Jan)
2012 Christmas Salon - Eleven Fine Art, London (Dec-Jan)
2012 All That I Am - Departure Lounge Gallery, Luton, UK (Jul-Oct)
2012 From the Road - Eleven Fine Art, London (Jan-Mar)
2011 Elusive - Camberwell Space, London (Feb-Mar)
2010 Pieces of a Song - HOST Gallery, London (Nov-Dec)
2010 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize - The Art Gallery, Walsall
2009 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize - NPG Gallery, London
2006 Desert Images - 'Midnight Cactus', Whitelys, London
2003 The Desert - Love for Sale - The Other Cinema, Soho, London
2002 Urban Visions - Flowers East, London
2001 The Magic Hour (Art and Las Vegas) - Neue Gallery, Graz, Austria
2000 Crush - Hoax Gallery, London
1999 Hoax - Hoax Gallery, London
1999 Primervera Fotographica - Portugal
1998 The Whole Year Inn - The Agency of Contemporary Art, London
1996 America -The Association Gallery, London