Gary Hill

(American, born 1951)

Gary Hill is a celebrated Seattle-based artist who blends video, sound, and performance art. He started experimenting with sound and video art in the early 1970s. His artworks explore the boundaries between language and image, silence and sound, and light and darkness.

Gary Hill grew up in California, surfing and skateboarding. He moved to Seattle in 1985, created a video program at Cornish College of the Arts, and taught there from 1985-92. Hill has received many awards and exhibited in major museums in the U.S. and around the world, including at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Centre Pompidou in France, and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain. He was awarded the 1995 Golden Lion Prize for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale international art exhibition in Italy. His art was featured in two solo traveling exhibitions, organized by the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle (1994) and the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg in Germany (2001).