Greg A. Hill (artist)

Greg A. Hill is a Canadian-born First Nations artist and curator.[1] He is Kanyen'kehaka, from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, Ontario.[2]

Biography

Hill was born and raised in Fort Erie, Ontario.[3] His work as a multidisciplinary artist focuses primarily on installation, performance and digital imaging and explores issues of his Mohawk and French-Canadian identity through the prism of colonialism, nationalism and concepts of place and community.[4]

He has been exhibiting his work since 1989, with solo exhibitions and performance works across Canada as well as group exhibitions in North America and abroad.[5] His work can be found in the collections of the Canada Council, the Indian Art Centre, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, the Canadian Native Arts Foundation (now Indspire), the Woodland Cultural Center, the City of Ottawa, the Ottawa Art Gallery and the International Museum of Electrography. He currently acts as the Audain Senior Curator of Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Canada.[6]

Hill is a recipient of the Indspire Award for Arts (2018).[7][8]

References
  1. "The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Receives the 2007 York Wilson Endowment Award". Canada News Centre. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
  2. "Greg Hill". Indspire. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  3. "About – Greg A. Hill". Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  4. "Greg Hill Official Website".
  5. "Museum and Gallery Listings". The New York Times. 28 December 2007. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
  6. "Greg Hill". Indspire. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  7. "Greg Hill". Indspire. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  8. Nov 07, Jorge Barrera · CBC News · Posted:; November 7, 2017 2:19 PM ET | Last Updated:; 2017. "Indspire Awards honour brightest Indigenous stars | CBC News". CBC. Retrieved 2019-03-25.CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)


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