Greg Hill

Greg A. Hill is a multidisciplinary artist, curator and consultant. From Fort Erie, Ontario he is a Kanyen’keháka (Mohawk) member of the Six Nations of the Grand River. 

Hill’s artworks, primarily in performance, installation and digital imaging, explore aspects of colonialism, nationalism, and concepts of place and community through the lens of his Kanyen’keháka and settler French ancestry. Recent work delves into concepts of relationship to Land and spaces contrasted as interior/exterior or domestic/wild as an inquiry of lived experiences within the “Land.” He has been exhibiting his work since 1989, with many solo exhibitions and performance works across Canada and group exhibitions in North America and Europe. He has worked collaboratively in performance productions and exhibitions in Canada, the United States, the Czech Republic, Germany, and Hong Kong. In 2003, Hill was a recipient of the K.M. Hunter Foundation Visual Arts Award and an Indspire award in 2018. His work can be found in public and private collections in Canada and abroad. 

As a curator, Hill has nearly three decades of experience working within museums and galleries, most notably as the National Gallery of Canada’s Audain Senior Curator of Indigenous Art where he was dedicated to increasing the visibility of, and access to, Indigenous Art. Leading a team of curators, Hill greatly expanded the collection of Indigenous art to include major artworks by many of the most significant national and international Indigenous artists of our time. He also established a series of contemporary international Indigenous art exhibitions and produced several retrospective exhibitions and catalogues for senior Indigenous artists in Canada.

As a consultant, recent clients include the Senate of Canada, Native Women’s Association of Canada, The Art Gallery of Algoma/Diamond-Schmitt Architects and the Alex Janvier Gallery.