Faculty

RICHARD HILL

AOCA Diploma (Ontario College of Art), BA (York), PhD (Middlesex)
Assistant Professor: Aboriginal Arts
Department of Visual Arts, York University

rhill@yorku.ca

Richard Hill is a curator, critic and art historian of Cree heritage. His areas of interest and expertise include historical and contemporary art created by Indigenous North American artists.

As a curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario , Dr. Hill oversaw the museum’s first substantial effort to include North American Aboriginal art and ideas in permanent collection galleries. He also curated Kazuo Nakamura: A Human Measure at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2004 and co-curated, with Jimmie Durham, The American West at Compton Verney, UK in 2005. His most recent curatorial project is The World Upside Down, which originated at the Walter Philips Gallery at the Banff Centre in 2006 and is currently on tour.

Professor Hill’s essays on art have appeared in numerous books, exhibition catalogues and periodicals. He has a long association with the art magazine Fuse, where he was a member of the board and editorial committee and remains a contributing editor. He is currently writing a book on the problem of agency in the art of Jimmie Durham, the subject of his PhD thesis.

Dr. Hill has taught courses on Indigenous art history and contemporary art at York University since 2002.

Selected Scholarly Works:

“Cowboy Justice: an American Trip”, The American West, Warwickshire, UK: Compton Verney, 2005.

“Meeting Ground: The Reinstallation of the AGO’S McLaughlin Gallery”, Making a Noise: Aboriginal Perspectives on Art, Art History, Critical Writing and Community, Lee Ann Martin, ed., Banff: Walter Phillips Gallery/Banff Centre Press, 2004.

“Kazuo Nakamura: A Human Measure”, Kazuo Nakamura: A Human Measure, Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 2004.

“Getting Un-Pinned: Collecting Aboriginal Art and the Potential for Hybrid Public Discourse in Art Museums”, Obsession Compulsion, Collection: On Objects, Display Culture and Interpretation, Anthony Kiendl, ed., Banff: Walter Phillips Gallery / Banff Centre Press, 2004.

“And Also”, On Aboriginal Representation in the Gallery, Mercury Series, Canadian Ethnography Service Paper 135, Lynda Jessup with Shannon Bagg, eds., Hull: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 2002.

“Built on Running Water: Rebecca Belmore’s Fountain”, FUSE Magazine, Vol. 29, No. 1, 2006.

“The Unreadable Present: Nadia Myre and Kent Monkman”, C Magazine, Issue 75, Fall, 2002.

“Tashme2”, Review,” FUSE Magazine, Vol. 24, No. 4, 2001.

“Indians on Tour (or Scouting for Monias)” PUBLIC, Issue 29, 2004.