Hana Hillerová is a Czech visual artist and designer whose work moves between contemporary art and design, with a focus on material, process, and experimentation. Her practice spans large-scale sculpture, site-specific installation, and glass, including sculptural objects, vessels, lighting, and works that explore the physical behavior of molten material.
In 2025, Hillerová received the Czech Grand Design Discovery of the Year award in the Industrial Designer of the Year category. Her 2026 exhibitions include a solo presentation at Traver Gallery in Seattle, Milan Design Week at Galleria Rossana Orlandi, Křehký Mikulov, the Homo Faber Biennial in Venice with her Riot of Spring collection, Paris Design Week, where she presented new glass sculptures at the Czech Centre in Paris and this October at Highcraft section of Designblok she presents new collection of light objects and vases “Deep Time”.
Hillerová received her MFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin, where she later served as Director of the Creative Research Laboratory. She lived and worked in the United States for almost twenty years, completing projects including a permanent public installation of twenty metal sculptures at Houston Intercontinental Airport. She later returned to her native Prague, where she is a member of the artist collective Mothers Artlovers and has developed an experimental practice in glass.