Gary Hill (b. 1951, Santa Monica, CA) is an interdisciplinary artist and has worked with sculpture, sound, video, written and spoken text, installation and performance. Since the early seventies he has remained committed to an experimental practice in dialogue with an array of issues ranging from the physicality of language, synesthesia and perceptual conundrums to ontological space and viewer interactivity.
Exhibitions of his work have been presented at museums and institutions worldwide, including solo exhibitions at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain (Paris); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris); Guggenheim Museum, (New York); The Henry Art Gallery (Seattle); Museum für Gegenwartskunst (Basel); Museu d’Art Contemporani (Barcelona); and Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles); MIS – Museu da Imagem e do Som (São Paulo); Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal; Center for Contemporary Art, (Tel Aviv). Commissioned projects include works for the Science Museum in London and the Seattle Central Public Library in Seattle, and an installation and performance work for the Colosseum and Temple of Venus in Rome. Hill has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations, and has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, most notably the Leone d’Oro Prize for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale (1995), a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Award (1998), the Kurt-Schwitters-Preis (2000), and honorary degrees from The Academy of Fine Arts Poznan, Poland (2005) and Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle (2011). He was awarded the Genius Award in Film by The Stranger, Seattle (2011).
The solo exhibition “Always rings twice”, along with conversation program, was dedicated to Gary Hill by the West Museumkwartier in Den Haag, in 2018. The same year, his large solo show “Linguistic Spill in the Boiler Hall,” took place at MAAT (Museum of Art, Architecture & Technology) in Lisbon. In October 2018 a solo exhibition of selected single-channel video works was held at Total Museum of Contemporary Art (TMCA) in Seoul.
An extensive survey exhibition “Gary Hill: Momentombs,” including installations, sculpture and single-channel video works was presented at Suwon Museum of Art, Suwon, Korea in November 2019.
Continuing with a thread of works that comingle language, memory and vision between extremities of light and darkness (Midnight Crossing, 1997 and The Storyteller’s Room, 1998, The Slow Torque of Bonsai, 2017), Afterwards will utilize considerably more found objects—debris, surplus, cast out furnishings, tools etc. that are consciously setup to generate overlapping
Association Vidéoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Chapelle de l'Oratoire 14 rue de l'Oratoire 63000 Clermont-Ferrand
The Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum is hosting, in collaboration with the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Gary Hill’s “Bemerkungen über die Farben” (Remarks On Color, 1944): a video installation included within the exhibition “Juxtaposed”. The aim of the exhibition is to present works of art from the past, including masterpieces from Rembrandt, Rubens
In Circular Breathing, there is the sense of a disturbing narrative accumulating and dissipating through each successive set of scenes. Images from the streets of Tangier, a ship on the open sea and the interior of a mosque juxtapose with a man chopping wood and a cigarette burning slowly in
The theme of Guangzhou Triennial heralds the unveiling of a new and contemporary landscape of change within change. “Symphony of All the Changes” focuses on connection and transformation, reflecting the end of an era and a new beginning for the museum as well as the impact of the unexpected public health
Guangzhou, China
2 Zhujiang E Rd, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province
The exhibition Sums & Differences brings together works by Gary Hill, Steina, and Woody Vašulka. It aims to present the commonalities of their earliest explorations and the subsequent divergence of their artistic practices, their conceptual, performative, and contemplative interpretations of the physical and the immaterial, along three unique trajectories reflecting
Lia Rumma Gallery will be exhibiting at Art Basel from September 20 to 26. You can find us at booth A1 | hall 2.0 and in Unlimited with “Rosa delicata” by Ettore Spalletti – booth U7 | hall 1.0
