“I think of myself as a conceptual cross-disciplinary artist and work with whatever media arises from the process. For close to 60 years, I’ve worked with sculpture, video, sound, installations, performance, and text. My central point of departure is work-as-inquiry—bringing the processual space to an interactive level that includes myself, the viewer, and other possible collaborators into an ontological dialogue. I remain committed to cybernetics and the inherent nature of electronic media – real-time feedback – as a multi-layered space from which to bring forth ideas that have visceral underpinnings. Concurrently, I am interested in bringing out the fallibility of technology – making work that sometimes even suggests a loss of technology. I work in liminal domains that a number of dichotomies call forth: mind/body, material/non-material, intuition/self-consciousness, sense/non-sense, etc. Other than that, I try and remain open and alert to the everyday happenstance surrounding me. More times than not this is what feeds my art and life—this is where the epiphanies and flashes occur. For quite some time there has been much to do about “socially responsible (or engaged) art.” From my point of view, I see that as something of a misnomer since the central tenet of art at its core is radically political with a life of its own—in the eye of the hurricane so to speak. The bottom line is self-expression in the most primal sense—procreation and the manifestation of concepts and matter into an experiential visceral space that brings you in—disturbs, enlightens, and, poses questions about one’s being and perceptions. Once this is gone due to various rules, regulations and a multitude of cultural agendas humanity loses the sacred mystery of wonder.” —Gary Hill

Gary Hill (b. 1951, Santa Monica, CA) has worked with a broad range of media – including sculpture, sound, video, text, installation and performance. His longtime work with intermedia continues to explore an array of issues ranging from the physicality of language, synesthesia and perceptual conundrums to ontological space and viewer interactivity.  

Exhibitions of his work have been presented at museums and institutions worldwide, including solo exhibitions at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York; Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel; Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; Center for Contemorary Art, Tel Aviv; West Den Haag, Den Haag and most recently at the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT), Lisbon and the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China.