{"id":7495,"title":"Gary Hill","kind":"bio","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/gary-hill","version":"623d41aea1683febe749e629a1e091e95a3c0f3e27d8f628721b3313674b6404","modified":"2011-06-18T00:00:04+00:00","credits":[],"authorKeys":[],"subjects":["bio"],"metadata":[{"label":"First name","value":"Gary","url":null},{"label":"Last name","value":"Hill","url":null}],"citations":{"page":"\u0022Gary Hill.\u0022 Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/gary-hill.","publication":null,"risUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/citation/7495.ris"},"links":[],"sections":[{"name":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"characters":27697},{"name":"summary","source":"existing VHP generated summary","generated":true,"characters":812}],"content":{"section":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"text":"Seattle-based video artist Gary Hill uses modern technology to create video-infused, ephemeral experiences that ask viewers to consider the physical nature of how we communicate. But although he dips into a high-tech tool box to create his multimedia works -- using video, audio, spoken and written text and sculptured space -- Hill\u0027s works explore ideas rather than the medium he uses or its associated technology. \u0022Some people use special effects to interest people through playing with the technology -- some people think that\u0027s art,\u0022 says Donald Young, owner of the Donald Young Gallery where Hill\u0027s work shows locally. \u0022It\u0027s the ideas behind the work that are important to Gary Hill, who was born in Southern California, began experimenting with video in 1973, by borrowing a camera and recording layers of his multiple selves in conversation. His earliest videos, \u0022The Fall\u0022 and \u0022Air Raid,\u0022 were sound-and-image montages organized around ecological themes. His first video installation, \u0022Hole in the Wall\u0022 (1974), featured a monitor placed in a hole cut through a wall that played back what was happening in the room. From 1975 to 1977, Hill was the artist-in-residence at the Experimental Television Center in Binghamton, N.Y. In the late 1970s, Hill began exploring concepts about how we use and understand language, work that continued into the 1980s, with fellowships from the Rockefeller and Guggenheim foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1985, he moved to Seattle, where he established a video program at Cornish College of the Arts. In 1992\u0027s \u0022Tall Ships,\u0022 among the more complex of his pieces, Hill layers the various elements in such a way that different viewers see distinct shows, according quite literally to how they approach and move through one of his installations. The piece was created for Documenta IX, an annual art show based in Kassel, Germany, and was included as part of the 1993 Whitney Biennial. It is now part of the Henry Art Gallery\u0027s permanent collection. Born 1951 in Santa Monica, California. Lives and works in Seattle, Washington. Grants and fellowships 1990 Rockefeller Intercultural Media Arts Fellowship (stage 2) 1989 Rockefeller Intercultural Media Arts Fellowship 1988 \u0022Seattle Artists 1988\u0022 (selected for City Lights portable works), Seattle, Washington 1987 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Artist Trust Fellowship 1986 American Film Institute Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowship National Endowment for the Arts Production Grant 1985-86 New York State Council on the Arts Production Grant New York State Foundation on the Arts Fellowship 1985 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 1984 New Works Grant, Massachusetts Council on the Arts 1983-84 New York State Council on the Arts Production Grant 1982 Channel Thirteen/WNET Artist-in-Residence Production Grant Japan/U.S. Exchange Fellowship sponsored by the national Endowment for the Arts and the Japan/US Friendship Commission 1981-82 Rockefeller Video Artist Fellowship National Endowment for the Arts Media Production Grant New York State Council on the Arts Production Grant 1980-81 New York State Council on the Arts Production Grant 1979 Channel Thirteen/ WNET Artist-in-Residence Production Grant National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 1978-79 Creative Artist Public Service Fellowship New York State Council on the Arts Production Grant Awards 1998 MacArthur Fellowship 1995 Leone d\u0027Oro, Prize for Sculpture, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy 1991 Prize Winner, \u0022ARTEC 91,\u0022 International Biennale, Nagoya, Japan 1989 Prize Winner (Performance Video), 13th Atlanta Film/Video Festival, Atlanta 1988 Grand Prix, World Wide Video Festival, The Hague, Holland Honorable Mention, 3rd Bonn Video Art Festival, Bonn, Germany Prix Alcan (video), 18th Annual Montreal Film and Video Festival, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 1987 1st Prize, Structuralist Video, Athens International Video Festival, Athens, Ohio Grand Prize, 6th Annual Daniel Wadsworth Video Festival, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut 1986 1st Prize (shared), Narrative Video, Athens International Video Festival, Athens, Ohio James D. Phelan Art Award, San Francisco Foundation, San Francisco, California Honorable Mention (Non-Narrative Video), Video Culture International, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 1985 Grand Prix (shared), 1st Tokyo International Video Biennale, Tokyo, Japan Sony Grand Prize, 3/4 Inch Video/New Media, Video Culture International, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 1st Prize Art Video/New Media, Video Culture International, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 1st Prize, 3/4 Inch Non-Narrative Video/New Media, Video Culture International, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Selected Solo Exhibitions 1999 Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel, \u0022Tall Ships\u0022 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, \u0022Placing Sense \u003C-\u003E Sens Plac\u00E9\u0022 Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark, \u0022Tall Ships, Searchlight Viewer\u0022 1998 Whitney Museum of American Art, \u0022Circular Breathing\u0022 Centre pour l\u0027image contemporaine, Geneva El Museu d\u0027Art Contemporani de Barcelona, \u0022Gary Hill - HanD HearD - Withershins - Midnight Crossing\u0022 Musee d\u0027art contemporain de Montreal 1997 Centrum Sztuki, \u0022Gary Hill remarks on color\u0022 Midnight Crossing Westf\u2030lischer Kunstverein M\u00B8nster, M\u00B8nster, Germany 1996 Barbara Gladstone Gallery Galerie des Archives, Paris, \u0022Gary Hill: HanD HearD/liminal objects\u0022 Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, \u0022Placing Sense\u0022 1995 Soho Guggenheim Museum, New York \u0022Gary Hill,\u0022 Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (Scandinavian touring exhibition organized by Riksutst\u2030llningar, Stockholm, travelling to Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen. Helsingfors Konsthall, Helsinki and Bildmuseet Urne\u00C2) Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge, MA 1994 \u0022Gary Hill,\u0022 Henry Art Gallery, Seattle. Travelled to Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and Guggenheim Museum Soho in 1995 \u0022Gary Hill,\u0022 Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England \u0022Gary Hill,\u0022 Mus\u00E9e d\u0027Art Contemporain, Lyon, France Museum f\u00B8r Gegenwartskunst, \u00F7ffentiliche Kunstsammlung, Basel, Switzerland 1993 \u0022Gary Hill,\u0022 Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, Washington (installations) \u0022Gary Hill,\u0022 IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain (traveling exhibition organized by the Centre Georges Pompidou) \u0022Gary Hill,\u0022 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (traveling exhibition organized by the Centre Georges Pompidou) \u0022Gary Hill,\u0022 K\u00B8nsthalle, Vienna, Austria (traveling exhibition organized by the Centre Georges Pompidou) \u0022Gary Hill: In Light of the Other,\u0022 Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England (installations) \u0022Gary Hill: Sites Recited,\u0022 Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California 1992 \u0022I Believe It Is an Image,\u0022 Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo \u0022 Gary Hill,\u0022 traveling exhibition organized by the Mus\u00E9e National d\u0027Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou (installations, videotapes) Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands (installations) 1991 Galerie des Archives, Paris (installations) OCO Espace d\u0027Art Contemporain, Paris (installation) Nykytaiteen Museo: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland (retrospective of videotapes) 1990 Galerie des Archives, Paris (installations) Galerie Huset/Ny carlsberg Glyptotek Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark (installations) YYZ Artist\u0027s Outlet, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (screening, installation) Museum of Modern Art, New York (installation) 1989 Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium (screening) Kijkhuis, The Hague, The Netherlands (installation) Mus\u00E9e d\u0027Art Moderne, Villeneuve d\u0027Ascq, France (installation, screening) Pacific Film Archives, San Francisco (screening) 1988 Western Front, Vancouver, B.C., Canada (screening) Video Wochen, Basel, Switzerland (performance, screening) L\u0027Espace Lyonnais, d\u0027Art Contemporain, Lyon, France (retrospective of videotapes) 1987 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (installation) Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles (screening) Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, Washington (installation) 2nd Seminar on International Video, St. Gervais-Gen\u00E8ve, Geneva, Switzerland (retrospective of videotapes) 1986 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (retrospective of videotapes) Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia (screening) 1985 Scan Gallery, Tokyo (videotapes) 1983 International Cultural Center, Antwerp, Belgium (screening) The American Centre, Paris (retrospective of videotapes) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (installation) Monte Video, Amsterdam (screening) 1982 Galerie H at ORF, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria (installation) Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California (installation) 1981 The Kitchen Center for Music, Video and Dance, New York (installation) And/Or Gallery, Seattle, Washington (installation) Anthology Film Archives, New York (screening) 1980 Media Study, Buffalo, New York (installation) \u0022Video Viewpoints,\u0022 Museum of Modern Art, New York (screening) Image Dissector Screening Series, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles (screening) 1979 The Kitchen Center for Music, Video and Dance, New York (installation) Everson Museum, Syracus, New York, (installation) \u0022Meet the Makers: Gary Hill,\u0022 Donnell Library, New York, (screening) 1978 Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York (screening) 1976 Anthology Film Archives, New York (screening) 1974 South Houston Gallery, New York 1973 Woodstock Artists\u0027 Association, Woodstock, New York 1971 Polaris Gallery, Woodstock, New York Selected Group Exhibitions 1999 Le Fresnoy, Studio National des arts contemporains, Touring, France, \u0022Voices\u0022 Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, \u0022Conundrum\u0022 1998 Witte de With, \u0022Voices,\u0022 publication, travels to Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona 1997 Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France \u0022Being \u0026 Time,\u0022 Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 1996, travelling to Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan Portland Art Museum, Portland Oregon Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston Texas (catalogue) Kwangju Biennial, \u0022Speed,\u0022 Kwangju, Korea (catalogue) \u0022Amour,\u0022 Cartier Foundation Paris 1996 \u0022Nowhere,\u0022 Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark Lia Rumma, Napoli, Italy Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland 1995 \u0022ARS \u002795 Helsinki,\u0022 The Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland \u0022Pour un Couteau,\u0022 Le Creux de l\u0027Enfer, Le Centre d\u0027Art Contemporain, Thiers, France \u0022Altered States: American Art in the 90s,\u0022 Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis (catalogue) \u0022Immagini in Prospettive,\u0022 Cinema\u0027Verdi\u0027, Serre de Rapolano, Italy \u0022Multimediale 4,\u0022 ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany \u0022Sculptures Sonores: Une Certeine Perspective Communique,\u0022 Ludwig Museum im Deutschherrenhaus, Koblenz, Germany \u0022Identit\u2021 e Alerit\u2021 \u0022 Venice Biennale, Italy \u0022Video Spaces: Eight Installations,\u0022 Museum of Modern Art, New York \u0022Loning and Belonging: From the Faraway Nearby,\u0022 Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM 1994 \u0022Beeld,\u0022 Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium \u0022Multiplas Dimensoes,\u0022 Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisboa, Portugal Sao Paolo Bienal, Brazil \u0022Facts and Figures,\u0022 Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles \u0022Light into Art\u0022 Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH \u0022Cocido y Crudo,\u0022 Centro Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain \u0022Intelligent Ambience and Frozen Images,\u0022 Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA 1993 \u0022Doubletake: Collective Memory and Current Art,\u0022 K\u00B8nsthalle, Vienna, Austria \u0022Biennial Exhibition,\u0022 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York \u0022The Binary Era: New Interactions,\u0022 K\u00B8nsthalle, Vienna \u0022The 21st Century,\u0022 K\u00B8nsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland \u0022American Art in the 20th Century-Painting and Sculpture,\u0022 Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany \u0022Passageworks,\u0022 Rooseum, Malmo, Sweden \u00221993 Whitney Biennale in Seoul,\u0022 National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea \u0022Anonymity and Identity,\u0022 Anderson Gallery, Virginia, Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; and The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD \u0022Gary Hill, Between Cinema and a Hard Place,\u0022 and recent works by Le","offset":0,"nextOffset":12000,"totalCharacters":27697,"complete":false},"rightsUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/terms-service"}