Gary Hill

Born in 1951 in Santa Monica, California, Gary Hill is one of the pioneers of video art. He completed his first single-channel video work in 1973 and began producing video installations as early as 1974, long before the medium had been recognized as a vehicle for art. Among his many awards are a Kurt Schwitters Award, a MacArthur Foundation grant, two Guggenheim fellowships, and the Lion d'Or for sculpture at the Venice Biennale. His work has been shown around the world, including solo...See more

Born in 1951 in Santa Monica, California, Gary Hill is one of the pioneers of video art. He completed his first single-channel video work in 1973 and began producing video installations as early as 1974, long before the medium had been recognized as a vehicle for art. Among his many awards are a Kurt Schwitters Award, a MacArthur Foundation grant, two Guggenheim fellowships, and the Lion d'Or for sculpture at the Venice Biennale. His work has been shown around the world, including solo exhibitions at the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Sprengel Museum, Hanover; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Musee de l'Art Contemporain de Montreal. Hill lives and works in Seattle, Washington. See less