Gary Hill was born in Santa Monica, California and currently lives in Seattle, Washington.
Originally a sculptor, Hill began working with sound and video in the early 1970’s and has
produced a large body of both single-channel video works and mixed-media installations.
His video, installation and performance work has been presented at museums and institutions
throughout the world, including solo exhibitions at the Musée national d'art moderne, Centre
Georges Pompidou, Paris; Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York; Museum für
Gegenwartskunst, Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel; Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona;
and Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, among others.
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 in 1995 and a John
D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation “Genuis” Grant in 1998.
