Gary Hill / biography
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1951
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born in Santa Monica. Lives and works in Seattle, WA.
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Hill’s works are part of many public collections, among which Centre Georges Pompidou, MoMA, New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid.
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His work was presented at major art forums such as Documenta (1987 and 1995), La Biennale di Venezia (1984, 1995, 2001), the Whitney Biennial (1983, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993) and
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Hill received numerous awards and honours, including:
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1995
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Leone d’Oro Prize for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale
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1998
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John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Award
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2000
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Kurt-Schwitters-Preis
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Selected solo exhibitions
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2015
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Depth Charge, Galleria Giuseppe Pero / Milan
Depth Charge, Galleria Liu Rumma / Milan
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2014
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Aloidia Piorm, James Harris Gallery / Seatle
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2012
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CCA, The Center for Contemporary Art / Tel Aviv
Up Against Down, DNA / Berlin
Glossodelic attractors, The Henry Art Gallery / Seattle
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2011
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Wall Piece, Kunstverein Ruhr / Essen
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2010
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Circumstances/Circunstâncias, Museu da Imagem e do Som / São Paulo
Viewer, GMG Gallery / Moscow
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2009
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O lugar sem o tempo / taking time from place, Oi Futuro / Rio de Janeiro
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2007
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Frustrum, Art Cologne / Cologne (special installation organized by IMAI, Dusseldorf, in collaboration with Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris)
Gary Hill / Gerry Judah, Louise T. Blouin Foundation / London
Strange Trajectories, IMAI (Inter Media Art Institute), NRW-Forum / Dusseldorf
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2006
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Images of Light, Museu d’Art Espanyol Contemporani / Palma de Mallorca ; Museo de Arte Abstracto Espanol / Cuenca, 2007
Gary Hill, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain / Paris
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2005
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Image, Body, Text: Selected Works by Gary Hill, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art / San Francisco
Resounding Arches / Archi Risonanti, Solo exhibition of projected installations at the Coliseum and Temple of Venus and Rome
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2004
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Remarks on Color, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Video Gallery / Philadelphia
Tall Ships, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia / Halifax
A Personal Anthology / Video Works, The Ossolinski National Institute / Prague
Inasmuch As It Is Always Already Taking Place, Museum of Modern Art / New York
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2003
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Selected Works 1976 – 2003, Museum of Contemporary Art / Taipei
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2002
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Selected Works 1976 – 2003, Museum of Contemporary Art / Taipei
Language Willing, Boise Art Museum / Boise; Arizona State University Art Museum / Tempe; Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture / Spokane; Art Gallery of Nova Scotia / Halifax; Salt Lake Art Center / Salt Lake City
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2001
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The Winnipeg Art Gallery / Winnipeg
Selected Works, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg / Wolfsburg; Centro Cultural de Belém / Lisbon
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2000
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Centro Cultural Recoleta / Buenos Aires
Museo Caraffa / Córdoba
The Performative Image, WATARI-UM, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art / Tokyo and Towers Plaza Hall / Nagoya
Sprengel Museum / Hannover
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1999
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Aarhus Kunstmuseum / Aarhus
Video Works, NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC) / Tokyo
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| 1998 |
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal / Montreal
Museu d’Art Contemporain / Barcelona
Center for Contemporary Images / Geneva
The Kitchen / New York
Whitney Museum of American Art / New York
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1997
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Westfälischer Kunstverein / Münster
O lugar do outro/where the other takes place, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil / Rio de Janeiro;
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo
Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle / Warsaw
Rétrospective de ses premières oeuvres mono-bandes, Cinéma Lux / Caen |
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1996
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Withershins, Institute of Contemporary Art / Philadelphia
Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland / Bonn
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1995
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Gary Hill, (Scandinavian touring exhibition organized by Riksutställningar, Stockholm, Sweden) Moderna Museet / Stockholm; Museet for Samtidskunst / Oslo; Kunstforeningen / Copenhagen; Helsingfors Konsthall / Helsinki; Bildmuseet / Urneå; Jönköpings Läns Museum / Jönköping; Göteborgs Konstmuseum / Göteborg
Dia Center for the Arts / New York
Remarks on Color, Fundació “la Caixa” / Barcelona
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1994
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Gary Hill, (travelling exhibition organized by the Henry Art Gallery / Seattle) Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden / Washington DC; Henry Art Gallery / Seattle; Museum of Contemporary Art / Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art / Los Angeles; Guggenheim Museum SoHo / New York; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design / Kansas City
Musée d’art contemporain / Lyon
Selected Videotapes 1978-1990, Art Gallery of Ontario / Toronto
Imagining the Brain Closer than the Eyes, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Öffentliche Kunstsammlung / Basel
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1993
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In Light of the Other, Museum of Modern Art / Oxford; Tate Gallery Liverpool / Liverpool
Sites Recited, Long Beach Museum of Art / Long Beach
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1992
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I Believe It Is an Image, WATARI-UM, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art / Tokyo
Gary Hill, (travelling exhibition organized by the Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou / Paris) Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou / Paris; IVAM Centre del Carme / Valencia; Stedelijk Museum / Amsterdam; Künsthalle / Vienna
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum / Eindhoven
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1991
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OCO Espace d’art contemporain / Paris
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| 1990 |
OTHERWORDSANDIMAGES, Video Galleriet / Huset, and Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum / Copenhagen
Museum of Modern Art / New York
Moderna Museet / Stockholm; Museum of Contemporary Art / Helsinki
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| 1989 |
Musée d’art moderne / Villeneuve d’Ascq
Beursschouwburg / Brussels
Video im Kunstmuseum / Seattle ; Städtisches Kunstmuseum / Bonn
Kijkuis / The Hague
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| 1988 |
Western Front / Vancouver
Espace lyonnais d’art contemporain (ELAC) / Lyon
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| 1987 | Museum of Contemporary Art / Los Angeles | |
| 1986 | Whitney Museum of American Art / New York | |
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1983
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Whitney Museum of American Art / New York
International Cultural Center / Antwerp
MonteVideo / Amsterdam
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| 1982 |
Equal Time, Long Beach Museum of Art / Long Beach
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| 1981 |
Museum of Modern Art / New York
The Kitchen Center for Video and Music / New York
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1980
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Video Viewpoints: Processual Video, Museum of Modern Art / New York
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Selected group exhibitions
2016 Electronic Superhighway (2016 - 1966) Whitechapel Gallery, London |
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I Love Art 13 - 100 artists from the Watari-Um Collection - Watari-Um - Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo |
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2014
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THE EMBODIED VISION PERFORMANCE FOR THE CAMERA, MNAC - Museu do Chiado / Lisbon
The Vault, SPACES Gallery / Cleveland
REWRITTEN BY MACHINE AND NEW TECHNOLOGY, University Art Gallery Indiana State University / Indiana
93, CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea / Santiago de Compostela
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2013
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I see you, Kunsthalle Detroit / Detroit
Teutloff Meets Ars Sacra, Salzburg Museum Neue Residenz / Salzburg
Beyond Belief: 100 Years of Spiritual in Modern Art, Contemporary Jewish Museum San Francisco / CA
Word and Image, Hood Museum of Art / Hannover (USA)
Sous influences. A rts plastiques et produits psychotropes., La Maison Rouge / Paris
Do or Die : The Human Condition in Painting and Photography. C'est la vie., Deutsches Hygiene Museum / Dresden
Res(v)olution, DNA / Berlin
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2012 |
Alice im Wunderland der Kunst, Hamburger Kunsthalle / Hamburg
Membra Disjecta for John Cage : Wanting to say something about John, Centre for Contemporary Art / Prague
Sammlung Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg / Wolfsburg
Bilder gegen die Dunkelheit, Videokunst aus dem Archiv des imai im KIT, Kunst im Tunnel / Dusseldorf
Klang und Stille Sammlung Goetz im Haus der Kunst, Haus der Kunst München / Munich
BEYOND TIME, INTERANTIONAL VIDEO ART TODAY, Kulturhuset Stockholm / Stockholm
Presenza Activa, MARCO / Vigo
Vidéo Vintage 1963-1983, Centre Pompidou - Musée National d'Art Moderne / Paris
Catastrophes and Incidences, DNA / Berlin
Sound Spill, Galerie West / The Hague
Images sonores, Musée d´Art Moderne André Malraux / Le Havre
Simultan, CEAAC / Strasbourg
Writing Corpora, Museo Marco / Vigo
Pop-up. Veure és afegir, The Fundació "La Caixa" / Barcelona
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2011
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Exchange + Evolution, Long Beach Museum of Art / Long Beach
Synaptic Connections : Art and the Brain, Art Gallery of Niva Scotia Halifax / Halifax
Habiter la Terre, Biennale Internationale d´Art Contemporain de Melle / Melle
Alles wandelt sich, DNA / Berlin
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| 2010 |
From Picasso to Gary Hill, MAC Museu de Arte Contemporânea Centro Dragão do Mar de Arte e Cultura / Fortaleza
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| 2009 | Holbein to Tillmans, Prominent Guests from the Kunstmuseum Basel, Schaulager ; Laurenz Foundation / Basel | |
| 2008 | The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image, Part I: Dreams, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden / Washington DC | |
| 2007 | On History, Fundación Santander Central Hispano / Madrid | |
| 2006 | Primera generación: Arte e imagen en movimiento (1963 – 1986), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia / Madrid | |
| 2005 | Take Two. Worlds and Views: Contemporary Art from the Collection, MOMA / New York | |
| 2004 – 05 | Sons et Lumières, Une Histoire du son dans lʼart du Xxe Siècle, Centre Georges Pompidou / Paris | |
| 2004 | Contrepoint, lʼart contemporain au Louvre, Musée du Louvre / Paris | |
| 2003 | Yanomami: lʼesprit de la forêt, Fondation Cartier pour lʼart contemporain / Paris | |
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2003
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OUTLOOK: International Art Exhibition / Athens
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| 2002 – 04 | Future Cinema, ZKM - Center for Art and Media / Karlsruhe | |
| 2002 – 04 | Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964 – 1977, Whitney Museum of American Art / New York | |
| 2001 – 02 | 46th Biennial Exhibition: Media/Metaphor, The Corcoran Gallery of Art / Washington DC | |
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2001
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La Biennale di Venezia / Venice
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| 1999 – 2000 | The American Century: Art & Culture, Part II 1950 – 2000, Whitney Museum of American Art / New York | |
| 1997 | Biennale dʼart contemporain de Lyon, Musée dʼart contemporain / Lyon | |
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1996
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Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art / Pittsburgh
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| 1995 |
Biennale dʼart contemporain de Lyon, Musée dʼart contemporain / Lyon
La Biennale di Venezia / Venice
Video Spaces: Eight Installations, Museum of Modern Art / New York
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| 1993 | Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art / New York | |
| 1992 | Documenta, Museum Fridericianum / Kassel | |
| 1990 – 92 | Passages de l'image, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou / Paris | |
| 1991 | Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art /New York | |
| 1991 | International Art Exhibition Berlin 1991: Metropolis, Martin-GropiusBau / Berlin | |
| 1990 | Energieen: An Exhibition of Fifteen International Artists, Stedelijk Museum / Amsterdam | |
| 1989 | Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art / New York | |
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1987
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Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art / New York
Documenta, Museum Fridericianum / Kassel
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1985
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Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art / New York
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| 1984 |
La Biennale di Venezia / Venice
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| 1983 | Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art / New York | |