Nicole Jean Hill

Nicole Jean Hill is an artist using photography and video to explore the American cultural and natural landscape. She was born and raised in Toledo, Ohio and received a BFA in photography from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and an MFA in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her photographs have been exhibited throughout the U.S., Europe, Canada and Australia, including Gallery 44 in Toronto, the Australia Centre for Photography in Sydney, and the Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon. Hill has been an artist-in-residence at several arts organizations and universities including the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Wendover, Utah and the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming. She currently resides in Humboldt County, California, and is the chair of the Department of Art and Film at the California Polytechnic University- Humboldt. Her book Encampment, Wyoming: Selections from the Lora Webb Nichols Archive 1899-1948 was published by FW Books, Amsterdam and shortlisted for the Aperture/Paris Photo Photo Book of the Year in 2021.

Complete CV available HERE.

Selected Exhibitions
2024

Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA (two-person)

2023

Ucross Art Gallery, Ucross, WY

Concord Center for Visual Art

2022

College of the Redwoods, Eureka, CA

Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CO (solo)

2021
Southern Utah Museum of Art, Cedar City, UT

Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR (curator)

2020
Center for Visual Art, Denver, CO

2019
Global Livingston Institute, Entusi, Uganda
Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA
Washington State University, Pullman, WA

2018
Berry Center for Biodiversity, Laramie, WY (two-person)

Frontier Space, Missoula, MT

2017
Fairbanks Gallery, Corvallis, OR (solo)

Lyndon House Arts Center, Athens, GA
The Front, New Orleans, LA
Halden Art Gallery, South Lake Tahoe, CA

2016
Cameraworks Gallery, Portland, OR (solo)

Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta, GA
Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA

2015
Metro Gallery, Reno, NV (solo)

Kunstverein Speyer, Speyer, Germany

2014
Thorndike Gallery, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
Fairbanks Gallery, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

2013

San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
First Street Gallery, Eureka, CA

2012
The Front, New Orleans, LA (solo)
Piante Gallery, Eureka, CA (solo)
Workspace Gallery, Lincoln, NE (solo)

RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI
Tanner Hill Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2010

Wallspace Gallery, Seattle, WA
23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR
Reese Bullen Gallery, Arcata, CA

2011
Milepost 5, Portland, OR (solo)

Tanner Hill Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
Root Division, San Francisco, CA
First Street Gallery, Eureka, CA

2009
Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA (solo)

The Front, New Orleans, LA

2008
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR (solo)
Shotgun Space, Los Angeles, CA (two-person)

Lennox Contemporary, Toronto, ON
Galerie Art Mur, Montreal, Quebec
Kathleen Cullen Fine Art, New York City
Griffin Museum of Photography, Boston, MA

2007
Piante Gallery, Eureka, CA (solo)

Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR

2006
Gallery Sottoportego, Venice, Italy
Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA
Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto, ON