Biography

1951 Born in Santa Monica, California
1987 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1988 "Seattle Artists 1988" (selected for City Lights portable works), Seattle, WA
1989 Rockefeller Intercultural Media Arts Fellowship
1990 Rockefeller Intercultural Media Arts Fellowship (stage 2)
1998 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Grant
2000 - 2001 Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize Fellowship
2003 Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship
Lives in Seattle, WA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2004
"Language Willing", Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City

2003
"Outlook: International Art Exhibition Athens 2003," Athens, Greece
"Gary Hill: Selected Works 1973 - 2003," and "Black Performance" (with Paulina Wallenberg-Olsson), Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ (Boise, ID Exhibition)

2002
"Language Willing," Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Boise Art Museum, ID (Travelling to Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ; Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, Spokane, WA; Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Canada; Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT
Palacio De Velasquez, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
"Gary Hill: A Belsunce," La Compagnie, Marseille, France
Le Plateau, FRAC d'Ile-de-France, Paris
"Gary Hill: Selected Works," Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal (Wolfsburg Exhibition)
"Gary Hill/Bruce Nauman," National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
"HanD HearD" Museum of Modern Art Queens, Long Island City, NY

2001
El Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
Travelled to Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Cuauhtémoc, Mexico
Ujazdowski Castle, Centre of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (Travelling)
Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
"Gary Hill: The Performative Image,"The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

2000
London Regional Art and Historical Museum, London, Ontario, Canada
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago

1999
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, OH
"Tall Ships," Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
"Placing Sense <-> Sensing Place," School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
"Gary Hill: Video Works," NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo
"Tall Ships, Searchlight Viewer," Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark

1998
"Circular Breathing," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Centre pour l'image contemporaine, Geneva
"Gary Hill - HanD HearD -Withershins - Midnight Crossing," El Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain
Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal
Fundaçao de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA
St. Norberts Arts and Cultural Center, Manitoba, Canada
The Kitchen Center for Music, Video and Dance, New York

1997
"Gary Hill: Remarks on Color," Centrum Sztuki, Warsaw, Poland
"Midnight Crossing," Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster, Münster, Germany

1996
Barbara Gladstone Gallery
"Gary Hill: HanD HearD/liminal objects," Galerie des Archives, Paris
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
"Placing Sense," Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, WA

1995
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York
"Gary Hill," Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (organized by Riksutställningar, Stockholm). Travelled to Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen; Helsingfors Konsthall, Helsinki; Bildmuseet Urneä
Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge, MA

1994
"Gary Hill," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA. Travelled to Hirshhorn Museum of Art and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum SoHo , New York
"Gary Hill," Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England
"Gary Hill," Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Öffentiliche Kunstsammlung, Basel, Switzerland

1993
"Gary Hill: In Light of the Other," Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England (installations)
"Gary Hill: Sites Recited," Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA

1992
"I Believe It Is an Image," Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
"Gary Hill," Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou
Travelled to IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Kunsthalle, Vienna
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

1991
Galerie des Archives, Paris (installations)
OCO Espace d'Art 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's Outlet, Toronto, Ontario (screening, installation)
Museum of Modern Art, New York (installation)

1989
Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium (screening)
Kijkhuis, The Hague, The Netherlands (installation)
Musée d'Art Moderne, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France (installation, screening)
Pacific Film Archives, San Francisco, CA (screening)

1988
Western Front, Vancouver, B.C., Canada (screening)
Video Wochen, Basel, Switzerland (performance, screening)
L'Espace Lyonnais, d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France (retrospective of videotapes)

1987
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (installation)
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (screening)
Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA (installation)
2nd Seminar on International Video, St. Gervais-Genève, Geneva, Switzerland (retrospective of videotapes)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (retrospective of videotapes)
Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (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, CA (installation)
1981 The Kitchen Center for Music, Video and Dance, New York (installation)
And/Or Gallery, Seattle, WA (installation)
Anthology Film Archives, New York (screening)
1980 Media Study, Buffalo, NY (installation)
"Video Viewpoints," Museum of Modern Art, New York (screening)
"Image Dissector Screening Series", University of California at Los Angeles, (screening)

1979
The Kitchen Center for Music, Video and Dance, New York (installation)
Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY (installation)
"Meet the Makers: Gary Hill," Donnell Library, New York (screening)

1978
Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY (screening)

1976
Anthology Film Archives, New York (screening)

1974
South Houston Gallery, New York

1973
Woodstock Artists' Association, Woodstock, NY

1971
Polaris Gallery, Woodstock, NY