Gary Hill
Extended Profile
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Gary Hill was born in Santa Monica, California, in 1951 and currently lives in Seattle, Washington. Originally a sculptor, Hill began working with sound and video in the early 1970Ãïs and has produced a large body of both single-channel video works and mixed-media installations. His video, installation and performance work has been presented at museums and institutions throughout the world, including solo exhibitions at the MusÂée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York; Museum fÂür Gegenwartskunst, Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel; Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona; and Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, among others. Hill has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations, and has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, most notably the Leone dÃïOro Prize for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale in 1995 and a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation "Genuis" Grant in 1998.
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